Okay, I read the whole thing and I still don't get what value adding remote (networked) defrost or other cycle settings adds to a refrigerator. Something more complex, okay maybe there's a value in setting a centralized command and control, but fridges were designed to compete with "put on or next a block of ice" and the obvious improvements since then are lighting and a temperature knob
@elithebearded @hacks4pancakes
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Actually there is nothing not-remote
Even if you are standing directly in front of the fridge and configure it with your laptop (or another device) it's "remote"
The only way to get "real" local control would be to integrate the control interface (buttons, screens, keyboards) into each fridge.
Apart from being expensive (hardware wise) it would also make support expensive (you need to walk to every fridge), possibly error probe AND add the problem how to (physical) secure the interface
I like buttons and supermarkets have people walking the floor anyway
@elithebearded
Most of which are customers 😬
And the others are not trained to configure fridges either
Customers do shitty things in stores, yes? They can take a gallon of ice cream out and leave it with rotisserie chicken heater and take a hot chicken and put it back with the ice cream.
Most of them don't though
But it still happens regularly enough.
@SuperMoosie @elithebearded
Yes. And following this argument, most people don't attack your systems on the internet neither
15 year old fridges and only just become a problem