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  • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

    The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn’t notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

    So yeah, it’s been useful. It’s not needed 99% of the time.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      An alarm that beeps when the door is left open more than X minutes (say, 5 minutes) only requires a stupidly simple circuit and about $5 in parts.

      No smarts needed (though it’s probably cheaper to make it with a microcontroller than have the timer circuit be done with discrete parts).