Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    135 months ago

    And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again 😂

    • oleorun
      link
      fedilink
      English
      135 months ago

      Our LG washing machine does this once every year and a half almost like clockwork. It will simply refuse to do anything until it is unplugged and then plugged back in.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
        link
        fedilink
        215 months ago

        It may be clockwork. If its power hasn’t been interrupted in the interim, i.e. you have very stable power at your house, that’s got to be some kind of overflow bug in its software. A timer somewhere is running out of room to count clock ticks and it barfs.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        5
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        I’ve an oven which when turned off in hot state while in convection mode will turn on the fans for few minutes next time I turn it on, regardless of mode and temperature. To overcome this bug I need to put mains power off for couple of minutes and let the caps keeping the ram alive drain. Not only it has hot state reset bug but also a ram initialization issue as well it seems. Thankfully that state is not stored in nvram.

        The manufacturer was as expected: ‘we’re not software guy, we can send an ‘expert’ engineer (who knows only to replace parts, no debugging) and it’ll cost $$’. I thought I’ll reverse it and fixing someday, till then I’ll live with it.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            14 months ago

            good question :)

            I think it’s integrated ram inside the microcontroller. It stores states and programming (time, temperature etc) + the working memory for the program running on cpu. Surely some registers can do that but who cares.

            • Amon
              link
              fedilink
              14 months ago

              My meaning is why should an oven have any electronics?

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                14 months ago

                No reason, few decades ago oven used to work just as well as they do today with knobs, thermostats and spring timers.

                That’s why I said good question.

                The oven I mentioned isn’t this smart but there exist ovens like

                COOKING MADE SMARTER WITH WIFI POWERED BY SMART HQ: Voice-enabled cooking allows you to turn microwave on and off, add time or change power level via Alexa or Google Assistant; Scan-To-Cook Technology saves time and optimizes frozen food preparation