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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You don’t need it to be on the appliance itself. Hook a power metering smart outlet and you can tell. Or a shake sensor. Or an open door sensor. Combine them all for a reliable effective way to tell if it’s done and the door has been opened, all for a much lower price than what those “smart” appliances charge the premium for. This way you can also choose vendors that work on local wifi/zigbee/z wave and don’t own a paper weight or part functional item the moment the vendor decides to shutdown the servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed, and this is what I have set up for mine... But this is also technologically so far out of reach for >95% of people...