> How else would I change the temperature remotely if it didn‘t?
...why do you need to change the fridge temperature remotely?
...why do you need to change the fridge temperature remotely?
I could implement that in a weekend on an ESP board.
Kids/nanny/housekeeper changes the temperature against my wishes.
I’ve left the house for a long vacation with the fridge emptied and I’d like to change the temperature to consume less power while I’m gone, forgot to do it before I left.
And again it’s trivially simple functionality that costs almost no money or development effort to I implement.
Bullshit. The ideal refrigerator temperature is already close enough to freezing that any small adjustment you could make is unlikely to do any good. If this was actually a good idea then by your logic (similar to odd love for printer manufacturers) the all wise manufacturers would have already incorporated this into their “smart” fridges.
That you can remotely control something isn’t “smart”
The smart functions that have been very useful to me have been water filter reminders and door left open reminders.
In the case of one of the door open reminders the person who was at home didn’t realize the door was left open.
Because they are designed to be installed for decades, they also evolve at a slower pace than typical consumer appliances. If something breaks 15 years down the line, the manufacturer either still makes the same part or makes a compatible replacement. They are sold under the assumption that they are installed long-term.
Sub-Zero explicitly markets their refrigerators as being designed to last at least 25 years.
They have fewer features than Samsung feature checkbox fridges on purpose.
An automatic door close function would also be potentially dangerous with a built-in custom panel refrigerator like mine. My fridge has more pinch points than a normal fridge because the cabinetry is designed to be seamless.
A temperature control is a dead-simple and basic smart function that’s easy to implement. Automatic door closing would be a complicated mechanical mechanism prone to failure.
I will also note that I didn’t choose this fridge to be a snob, I chose it because my home already came with a custom panel refrigerator that needed to be replaced (a garbage piece of shit from Viking that wasn’t worth repairing, side note, I hate that company even more than Samsung). If I replaced my refrigerator with a normal one I would have had to do additional carpentry work on my house to avoid the area looking gutted so to speak, and I would also devalue my home since luxury built-in custom panel appliances are features that show up on real estate listings and they are a “luxury” indicator to buyers.
- Albert EinsteinDo you think a $50,000 car that doesn’t have air conditioning is a good value?
Cars in the United States were sold with air conditioning as an optional feature until maybe 20 years ago
There are still regions of the world where air conditioning is an optional feature in automobiles.