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Or even simpler: don't put any kind of writable software/firmware on the dishwasher in the first place. Beyond maybe some scheduled washing options, why does a dishwater need to be IoT'd? Seriously, I think all this is meant to pad the price of the appliances rather than give users an actual working product.

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This is a professional machine. See https://www.miele.de/professional/grossraum-reinigungs-und-d...

Having an API totally makes sense here to have monitoring and error reporting.

I can totally see something like that needing full programmatic capability, but anything consumer grade should be read-only in terms of functionality. A refrigerator in my home kitchen doesn't need an API to maintain temperature within an acceptable range vs electrical consumption where as a warehouse refrigerator does (like those that might be part of a smart grid agreement to give over control to utilities with a price discount as a benefit).

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