Not sure who designed the buttons and the setting for this coffee maker, it took me an hour to finally get what I thought was the auto brew along with all the other settings.  That should have been my first clue to just box it up then.  The instructions say to hold buttons for 5 seconds but nothing happens.  At least that's what I think the instructions said - very poorly written ( my husband writes instructional procedures for a living).  It took several attempts to even get the buttons to work.  The auto brew feature doesn't work.  If you have an auto brew feature on a coffee maker, you want to set it one time and not have to reprogram every day.   The coffee was not hot even at the hottest plate setting.  There's no option to turn the hot plate back on to keep the pot warm.   This is a lousy coffee maker and doesn't event deserve 1 star.