If you wanna know why you’d want it connected: notifications for status as well as simple diagnostics, a manual, a self hosted maintenance record, etc etc.
The reason they’re actually connected is for sales metrics.
I have an all in one washer/dryer from LG. It’s handy to know that the laundry is finished so you can go start another load or if it errored out while you were not in earshot from being unbalanced you can go fix it. Since the all in ones take about 7 hours for a load you need to be ready to swap.
For the oven it was super handy with young kids to know someone turned on the stove. You can also check a cook timer from afar.
Apt complex chose these as the ovens.
When you look at wifi signals all you see is a field of LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN
It’s for elderly too so no one has ever even used this superfluous feature.
Like you still have to get up to switch over the laundry what is even the point
If I were living in that apartment complex I’m going door to door and disabling the WiFi on every oven.
If you wanna know why you’d want it connected: notifications for status as well as simple diagnostics, a manual, a self hosted maintenance record, etc etc.
The reason they’re actually connected is for sales metrics.
I have an all in one washer/dryer from LG. It’s handy to know that the laundry is finished so you can go start another load or if it errored out while you were not in earshot from being unbalanced you can go fix it. Since the all in ones take about 7 hours for a load you need to be ready to swap.
For the oven it was super handy with young kids to know someone turned on the stove. You can also check a cook timer from afar.