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by NikolaNovak 2611 days ago
Absolutely not.

First, I don't want to yell at my stove. I don't want it to misunderstand me. I don't want to forget it is on (dials are pretty easy to notice out of place; yes you can add a LED but now you're compensating for a flaw that doesn't need to exist).

I don't want to compete with my Google Home or my Alexa. I don't want my Kitchen to end up a constant stream of barked commands as I cook.

I don't want to stop conversation or music just to turn my stove on and off.

I don't want to take the time to speak "Stove, please turn on the bottom right burner to setting of five" when it takes me one fifth the time to actually change the knob.

It's a UI that works. It works great. Everybody STOP messing with UI that works great, pretty please :P
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silversconfused 2611 days ago
Clearly you have not met my stove! It literally polls the buttons once per second. It's a total crapshoot if you need a short press or a long press to register input. Voice control on this unit would not remove anything you'd miss.

I grew up with a stove that had an analog clock and a mechanical timer. Now THAT was a nice stove interface...

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NikolaNovak 2611 days ago
My sympathies - that's because, unfortunately, you have a stove where somebody took UI that works and tried to "modernize it". It sounds like it has touch buttons.

We have a brand new, nice stove that has knobs. It works GREAT :).

My next purchase will be a microwave oven that doesn't have million useless buttons but instead two dials/knobs - how much power, and how long. And I don't expect to ever use the how much power dial either :P

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silversconfused 2610 days ago
They are tact switches, not capacitive. It's just a cheap GE.
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