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 PebblesRox on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:46AM (#30149239)

We try to avoid running our dishwasher when our toddler is around because he will interfere with the cycle, but sometimes we forget to start it right before heading out the door. Remote start would be handy in a case like that :)

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by pueblito on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:35AM (#30149919)

I have a Bosch dishwasher which has the controls inside where kids can’t touch them. Plus it’s insanely quiet

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by SilasX on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:59AM (#30149440)

Still an overengineered solution -- a better feature would be some kind of access lock. Either a keycode or something requiring a lot of strength to remove.

(Edit: With that said, I am reluctant to leave the dishwasher on when I'm not present for the first cycle just because of the risk of something going wrong that wasn't adequately checked for.)

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by stjohnswarts on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:26PM (#30155550)

But is it worth having yet another insecure & hackable device on the wifi when the manufacturer quits creating FW updates? Or ever even bothers?

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