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And also dangerous
In terms of a smart stove or oven .... I'm never going to allow an appliance that might burn down my house to operate on its own without supervision. If I'm turning on the oven to do anything, I'm in the kitchen or at least in the house so I know what its doing, any time it heats up at all.
You win.
This is the entire reason why I put smart lights and smart light switches in my entire house except in the kitchen and bathroom.
It's all about safety. It will be the same reason why I never want to let any range/stove/oven to ever be able to be controlled remotely. It's not just that I don't want to enable it, I don't want it to be possible.
At most, for a "smart" oven, I want to know when it's on and what temp it is, mostly so that I can create automations to text me when it's been on for too long to let me know I'm stupid and left the oven on.... With the fridge, same deal if I forgot to close the fridge, or if the fridge stops keeping things cold.
That's the most I would want. Reporting only. But if the "smart" device can control anything about its operation remotely, fuck that.
With a washer/dryer, I would only want end-of-cycle alerts because I'm frequently too far away from it where I normally hang out at home, to hear the bell. Reporting. That's it.
I can accomplish most of that with an esp32 and a variety of off the shelf sensors, or by tying into existing circuits on the machine to get their status, then send alerts through home assistant. No vendor specific BS required.