Patent ID: 7849699

Claim:
A remote ice maker control system comprising: a plurality of ice maker components that cooperatively function as an ice maker machine; a plurality of at least one of sensors and switches corresponding to at least one of the plurality of ice maker components; a central processor that monitors and controls operations of the plurality of ice maker components using, at least in part, input from at least one of: at least one sensor or at least one switch, wherein the central processor determines that a fault condition exists based on the input from the at least one sensor or the at least one switch, makes at least one attempt to automatically reset the fault condition, and transmits a signal to deactivate at least one of the ice maker components in response to a determination that the at least one attempt was unsuccessful, requiring a manual reset to reactivate the at least one of the ice maker components that was deactivated; and an output display remotely located from at least a portion of the ice-maker components to be observable by a user at a remote location that is a distance away from the portion of the ice-maker components from where the user does not have direct access to the portion of the ice-maker components, said output display presenting one or more visual indicators to the user at the remote location based on at least one of sensor input and switch input to facilitate maintaining user awareness of the operations of the ice maker components at a distance from the ice maker machine.