Samsung Bespoke oven + dishwasher + washer/dryer

Three more Samsung Bespoke appliances installed today. The kitchen + laundry suite is complete.

The hardware, briefly

• Bespoke Slide-In Induction Range NSI6DG9100MS — induction cooktop (5 zones) + convection oven + smart cooktop control via app/SmartThings.
• Bespoke Dishwasher DW80B7070US — third-rack, smart water sensor, AutoOpen door at end of cycle, WiFi + SmartThings.
• Bespoke Front-Load Washer + Dryer WF50A8800AV + DV50A8800AV — paired wash/dry, FlexWash dual-load, AI-based smart cycle selection.

All four appliances + the Family Hub fridge connect to the same SmartThings account, exposed to HA via the SmartThings integration.

What the oven actually does over the network

The induction oven exposes several connected features through SmartThings:

• Preheat from elsewhere. "Hey Family Hub, preheat the oven to 425°F." Oven beeps when ready. Saves the time you'd spend running across the kitchen.
• Temperature probe with notify. Stick the included Wi-Fi temperature probe into the roast, set target temp (e.g., "med-rare beef = 130°F"). Phone push notification when reached.
• Multi-mode cooking from the app. Convection bake, convection roast, air-fry mode — selectable from the SmartThings app while you're still at the grocery store mid-shopping.
• Cycle complete notification. Doesn't replace the buzzer; adds a push.

The induction cooktop is not networked controllable for individual burners (safety concerns I'd agree with — you don't want random web hits turning on a burner). The temperature control is local-only. SmartThings sees cooktop state (on/off, current power level) read-only.

The HA automations on the oven

- alias: "Oven: preheating, announce on Echo"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: oven.bespoke_main
      attribute: status
      to: "preheating"
  action:
    - service: notify.alexa_media_kitchen
      data:
        message: "The oven is preheating to {{ state_attr('oven.bespoke_main', 'set_temperature') }}."

- alias: "Oven: probe target reached, push to phones"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.oven_probe_target_reached
      to: "on"
  action:
    - service: notify.mobile_app_luke_iphone
      data:
        title: "Oven probe target reached"
        message: "Probe at {{ states('sensor.oven_probe_temperature') }}°F"
    - service: notify.alexa_media_kitchen
      data:
        message: "The probe target temperature has been reached."

The probe-target-reached notification is genuinely useful. Used to mean checking the meat thermometer every 15 minutes during a long roast; now I get a push when it's actually done.

The dishwasher's clever thing

The Bespoke dishwasher has AutoOpen — at the end of a cycle, the door pops open about 6 inches to vent steam. Results: dishes are dry without the heated dry cycle running (saves ~30% electricity per cycle). Combined with the smart-water-sensor adaptive cycling, the dishwasher uses notably less water + power than the old one.

What's not clever: the dishwasher's SmartThings integration. Cycle start can be triggered remotely; cycle status is reported. But the "start cycle when off-peak electricity rates apply" automation I wanted requires solar / grid-tied panel monitoring I don't have yet. Adding that to the 2025 list.

The washer/dryer pair

The Bespoke laundry pair (washer + heat-pump dryer) are similar architecturally. Cycle status, cycle start, cycle complete notification all flow through SmartThings.

The wash-cycle complete notification is genuinely valuable. Used to mean "remember to move the laundry to the dryer" — now the phone pushes "wash cycle finished. Dryer is ready." Family forgets to swap loads less.

The dryer's smart-cycle-selection (it weighs the wet load to estimate run time) shaved ~25 minutes off the average dryer cycle vs the old time-based one.

The "kitchen + laundry as one system" win

What's emergent from having all of these on one ecosystem:

# When the dishwasher and oven both finish within 10 minutes of each other,
# the dehumidifier kicks on (kitchen humidity spikes from steam + heat dissipation)

- alias: "Kitchen humidity event after big cleanup"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id:
        - dishwasher.bespoke
        - oven.bespoke_main
      to: "finished"
  condition:
    - condition: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.kitchen_humidity
      above: 60
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: switch.kitchen_dehumidifier
    - delay: "00:30:00"
    - service: switch.turn_off
      data:
        entity_id: switch.kitchen_dehumidifier

# Kid-friendly: when the oven is on or hot, light up the kitchen counter LED strip in red

- alias: "Oven on → warning LED for kids"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: oven.bespoke_main
      attribute: surface_temperature
      above: 100   # cooktop or oven hot
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: light.kitchen_counter_led
        rgb_color: [255, 50, 0]
        brightness: 150

- alias: "Oven cool → counter LED normal"
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: oven.bespoke_main
      attribute: surface_temperature
      below: 50
  action:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: light.kitchen_counter_led
        rgb_color: [255, 200, 50]   # warm white
        brightness: 100

The kid-warning LED is the kind of automation that wouldn't have been possible with a non-connected oven. Now it just works.

Privacy posture

Same as the fridge: dedicated Samsung account, IoT VLAN with restricted egress, no Bixby. The appliances upload usage data to Samsung; in their privacy policy I've reviewed, it's claimed to be aggregated + anonymized for product improvement. I'm OK with this tradeoff for the integration benefits.

What still doesn't work

• The oven's "AI Cook" feature that tries to identify what you're cooking and suggest settings. Tried it three times. Identified "roast chicken" as "pizza" twice. Disabled.
• Cross-Samsung-appliance routines — Samsung's SmartThings Routines feature can chain appliance events ("dishwasher done → start washer cycle"). Setup is finicky in the SmartThings app; I rebuilt the same automations in HA where they're more testable.
• The Family Hub fridge interior cams accurately tracking food. Still mediocre. The mirror-to-Frame TV recipe display is the killer use; the AI food recognition isn't.

What's next

• The Frame TV ecosystem post, once I've lived with it long enough to have something to say.
• A "smart laundry chute" project — DIY ESP-based sensor to detect when the upstairs hamper hits a fullness threshold, push notify when full.
• Solar + battery system planning.