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Automate craft ice on your LG refrigerator

Automate making slow melting, round ice cubes (craft ice) on your LG refrigerator

Jesse Torres

• 1 min read

Craft ice is great but typically you have to manually press the craft ice button to make craft ice (and then wait hours for it to make). Instead, you can automate pressing of the button every hour to have craft ice always ready and waiting.

Requirements

Node-RED

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Node-RED Flow

Copy the above, import into Node-RED, configure the nodes, and deploy the workflow.

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Adjust the timing of when to make craft ice as there is no refrigerator sensor to determine if the craft ice tray is full.