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Pin switch option for doors?
(lemmy.world)
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Surely the best approach here is a temp sensor with a threshold at which to alarm? Then you're actually monitoring the state of the appliance, not the state of the door.
I second this... it also has the advantage of alerting you if fuse pops / someone's unplugged it / whatever reason.
There was a recent discussion about this very topic recently...
While that is a solution and solves a big issue, especially like a power outage, a door sensor stops this problem long before that is an issue. My freezers and fridges are on the whole house generator, so power problems don't effect them. A temp sensor is still a valid thing long term but does not solve the problem I am trying to solve.