Touchscreen panels are making simple callbacks take twice as long

More buildings are getting elevators with those fancy touchscreen operation panels. When they freeze up, you can't just do a hard reset like with old button systems. You have to wait for the proprietary software to load on a computer, which eats up a lot of time on a service call. How do you handle these without throwing your tools?

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4 Comments

aaron_hayes783mo ago

Touchscreen panels doubling service time? What a joke. Now I get to stare at a loading screen instead of actually fixing things. Bring back the buttons you could slap back to life.

max7663mo ago

That "staring at a loading screen" bit is too real. Might as well make a coffee while it reboots, at this point it's part of the job lol.

anna7433mo ago

Ugh, my aunt has this ancient coffee maker that takes about five minutes to even light up. You hit the button and just stand there, watching it like it's gonna do a trick. Honestly feels more reliable than half the new stuff that needs a software patch to brew. At least the wait is built in, not a surprise.

blair_martin2d ago

Stare at that loading screen long enough and you start seeing the same crap everywhere. My buddy @max766 was dead right about the coffee maker thing, it's like whole world is running on software that takes forever. Try microwaving a frozen dinner or waiting for a smart thermostat to think about turning on the heat. Every modern machine just sits there buffering before it does its one job. It's not even faster, it's just adding extra steps for no good reason.