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AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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Why in the world would one connect a microwave to the Internet in the first point?! (I guess that's the way they received the wrong update...)

To preheat before you get home, or to make sure the oven is off after you've left.

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00049148/

With AEG's app, you can find a recipe and the app will automatically set the temperature and cooking time for you.

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.

It's Electrolux, Swedish company and apparently second appliance company worldwide by number of units sold.

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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post #21
post #3

Why in the world would one connect a microwave to the Internet in the first point?! (I guess that's the way they received the wrong update...)

To preheat before you get home, or to make sure the oven is off after you've left. https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00049148/ With AEG's app, you can find a recipe and the app will automatically set the temperature and cooking time for you.

We had analog timers 50 years ago, so that the Sunday roast would be ready when you came home from church. This crap is unneeded, unnecessary complexity. To hell with it.

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.

I think already in the 80s AEG's inofficial slogan was "Ausgepackt - Eingeschaltet - Geht nicht" (unwrapped, turned on, didn't work).

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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I wonder how many €0.01 per unit they saved by not having enough storage to keep the old firmware version while they loaded the new one?

>I wonder how many €0.01 per unit they saved by not having enough storage to keep the old firmware version while they loaded the new one?

You're maybe joking, but when I worked in automotive, they really worked hard to save 2mm in length of a thicker copper wiring inside the ECU to save maybe a cent. No joke.

Unless you're in the high margins league of Nvidia, Apple, etc, the rest of the HW industry is insanely price sensitive, so all these jokes on how cheap manufacturers are, are the reality on how the industry is staying afloat.

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected. If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.

My oven is Internet connected. It can't be turned on remotely unless I press a button on the oven itself, and even then it'll only allow it once.

The WiFi functionality is also such total garbage that it'll only stay connected for a few days, and requires physically unplugging and re-plugging the power to the oven to get it to reconnect.

Re: AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven

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I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected. If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.

I'm starting a kitchen upgrade, and the number of "connected" kitchen appliances is astonishing. I don't need my faucet to have Alexa, I don't want to read news on my refrigerator, and I don't want an app for my oven. I'm not aware of any companies keeping servers running for a product that matches the life expectancy of a kitchen appliance, nor do I want an AWS outage to keep me from making nachos.
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