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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by bombcar on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:39PM (#30571637)
This is true across a frighteningly large swath of “quasi industrial home control” stuff - all the vulnerabilities of industrial controls with zero of the attention paid to it.
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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by conk on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:18PM (#30572984)
What’s industrial home control?
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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by bombcar on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:43PM (#30573700)
All the commercial stuff from before the Apple Home craze. Automated sprinklers, lighting, controls. It’s been out there since the 70s and got rudimentary internet access early on - and lots of it is very slapdash (underlying assumptions that everything is local wire or low range radio from before internet was slapped on).
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