My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by funcDropShadow on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:05AM (#30147972)

I don't understand the usefulness of notifications on my phone for a dishwasher. Either I am near my dishwasher and hear its acoustic signal that it has finished. Then I can decide to open it or empty it now or later. Or I am not near the dishwasher than I can't do anything about it. Then it is a completely unactionable information, i.e. noise.

Actually, I have a Bosch/Siemens dishwasher with Wifi because it is very good dishwasher, but I've never connected it to my Wifi, because I don't want to think about advanced persistent threads infilitrating my dishwasher.

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by rightbyte on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:48AM (#30148437)

You never connected it to WiFi. I don't trust any device with radio so introducing unessecary ones seems like a bad idea.

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by funcDropShadow on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:18AM (#30162693)

Good point, but I was under pressure to buy a new one, and the options were limited due to Covid-related delays. As I live in Germany were it is very hard to find an unauthenticated Wifi-network, and there is certainly not a single one in range of my home, I could accept that risk.

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