Oven warning WRONG: trips when way less than 120 minutes

[toyzrme]

It seems that the “Oven on too long” doesn’t go by actual minutes in use, but rather how many hour-long blocks it touches?

Test:

– turn on oven 10 minutes before the top of the hour (say 5:50pm)

– turn off 10 minutes AFTER the top of the hour (say 6:10pm)

– warning generated because it was on during 2 consecutive 1-hour blocks (e.g. the 5-6pm block and the 6-7pm block)

 

I can’t attest to the exact number of minutes that triggers this behavior, but the oven is ALWAYS OFF when I check, and family members confirm that the oven was on much shorter than 2 hours.

 

This alarm is USELESS this way – and a legal liability because it’s wrong, and people will ignore it.

[toyzrme]

The alarm wording is BIZARRE, too “met the threshold for 2 consecutive hours”?

WHY NOT JUST SAY “The oven has been on for XXX minutes”??

[emporiacs]

The oven notification is based on a default notification of 2 continuos hours  of usage. If you need more fine grained control, you can certainly setup custom notifications for your circuits.

More info: https://help.emporiaenergy.com/hc/en-us/articles/9453849749143-Custom-Notifications

[flyoffacliff]

Yeah that does seem like a bad implementation. Could you just set it to report after 3 hours? That way it has to be on at least 60 minutes before it can trip.

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