June Oven competitors want you to know their smart ovens can’t remotely turn on in the night

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Two smart oven companies — Tovala and Brava — want you to know their ovens aren’t capable of accidentally turning on in the middle of the night, like a few June Ovens recently did.

I wrote yesterday about how three June Ovens turned on overnight, preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, and remained on until their owners noticed when they awoke the next morning. June CEO Matt Van Horn attributed the remote baking cycles to user error, saying that owners accidentally triggered their ovens to start cooking and never realized it. Tovala says a few concerned customers have since reached out about the possibility that they could accidentally remotely trigger their ovens to start baking, but both Brava and Tovala say that their ovens require…

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