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My new Samsung induction oven has an app. That app doesn’t do the only functionality I could ever care about - turn it on to preheat! Best it does is allow you
by voisin 3y ago
My new Samsung induction oven has an app. That app doesn’t do the only functionality I could ever care about - turn it on to preheat! Best it does is allow you to set the temp and bake/broil etc, but then you have to physically press start on the oven. What a silly waste of an app.
- marapuru 3y agoLikely, during the development process of the product, an App was desired. And these ideas about remote preheating were included. But later removed when the conceptual process ended and the Regulatory Compliance phase was started.
- FireBeyond 3y agoUltimately, though, that's a safety feature. You don't know what's happening with the oven, what's on it, or etc. I have a Smart Load Center (main electrical panel) from Leviton (https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/load-centers/the-leviton-smart-load-center https://www.leviton.com/en/products/residential/load-centers...). It does a lot of thing, can show me events of power loss etc., current draw per circuit, etc., etc. What you CANNOT do is reset a breaker via the app. And you never will, per my electrician, for safety reasons - is there a fire hazard? is someone working on the cabling? And so on.
- glitchc 3y agoOr what's in it when you turn it on.
- voisin 3y agoOk, I can see that, but shouldn’t it be my risk to take in this case (which seems quite a bit less risky than flicking a breaker on remotely when someone other than the app user might be working on it)?
- em-bee 3y agoi surely hope that safety feature is designed in such a way that you can't ever actually turn on the oven without standing in front of it, lest someone is able to break into the system and turn it on without you knowing. the risk is just to great. sure, the benefit of the app at that point is questionable, but the alternative should then be to simply have no app.
- voisin 3y ago> lest someone is able to break into the system and turn it on without you knowing Allow users to set their own unique PINs that they have to type in to unlock the “oven on” command every time they use it. Surely there has to be a tradeoff here where a user can be allowed to be a grown up and make their own decision. I mean, I have to click “I promise not to look at the giant screen on my dashboard while driving” every time I start my car. And what’s the worst case? That my oven is on and wasting money? If it could be set to get so hot that it causes a fire then that’s a totally different issue.
- em-bee 3y agothe most likely scenario is that something is inside the oven that should not be there. and that causes the fire. say you bake something, and then leave it inside to cool off, and then turn the oven back on forgetting that there is still something inside. so turning on should only be possible while you can actually see what is inside.