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Haven't bought appliances in a long time but we recently replaced most of the appliances with LG Thinq units, incl. a Wifi enabled refrigerator, oven, washer an
by lsllc 5y ago
Haven't bought appliances in a long time but we recently replaced most of the appliances with LG Thinq units, incl. a Wifi enabled refrigerator, oven, washer and dryer.
I have to say the Wifi enabled refrigerator is next to useless, I guess it tells me the temp and when the water filter needs changing ... not things I need. (and it only works on 2Ghz, so you need a separate 2Ghz only WLAN for it).
The Wifi oven is actually useful, because when you have that "did I leave the oven on" moment after you have left the house, not only can you check, but you can remotely turn it off. It's also useful for starting the oven preheat as you're buying that frozen pizza at the store so you can come home to a hot oven ready to go. The periodic "your oven needs cleaning" notifications are annoying though.
By far the Wifi enabled washer and dryer are the most useful! You get a notification when the wash/dry is done! and the washer will keep reminding you until you open the door on the unit so you don't end up forgetting and then having to rewash to avoid smelly clothes.
(weirdly, only the fridge had the 2Ghz only problem, must use different hardware)
- dtgriscom 5y ago> 2Ghz Do you mean 2.4GHz?
- lsllc 5y agoYeah!
- novok 5y agoWoo, your house now has a internet accessible & hackable remote fire starter where someone could leave your oven / stove on at max for hours until something ignites and burns the entire house down!
- RHSeeger 5y agoYeah, that would be a hard no for me, personally. I wouldn't let them hook my generator up to the internet either.
- x3n0ph3n3 5y agoI connected my wifi to the oven just to get NTP after dealing with clock drift on the order of 10 minutes per month. I went ahead and blocked all other traffic to and from it from the router.
- lsllc 5y agoYeah, you could imagine nation state hackers activating thousands of ovens, washers/dryers etc all at the same moment to try to overload the power grid. I've seen the Battlestar Galactica reboot, I should know better than to network my house!