# Programmable temperatures? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [December 23, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/programmable-temperatures/27699 "2020-12-23T18:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fischersd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/fischersd/32/5594_2.png) [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/programmable-temperatures/27699/21 "2021-01-03T03:02:41Z")
You’ll never get them to give you a toggle to have the default behaviour change to stop when the timer expires (as others have stated, it’s a liability issue for food safety). What use case would that have for Sous Vide? ---
**Author:** ![JedO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JedO](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/JedO)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/programmable-temperatures/27699/22 "2021-02-04T10:36:31Z")
Fantastic thread. I had exactly the same question once I started using my Anova for fermentation. So glad to find this – it took quite some searching as Google wasn’t helpful. I may hack around with the Python library to write a program for stepped temperature control. Will report back if I have some success. ---
**Author:** ![boris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@boris](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/boris)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/programmable-temperatures/27699/23 "2021-02-04T13:52:57Z")
Exactly my plans! Happy to collaborate on that Phyton work. In the meanwhile I’m using a socket timer, and it’s a pain in the neck because after each time the device turns off and back on it disconnects from the network. And not even mentioning the esthetics of using a socket timer to control a high tech programmable device:) [Previous page](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/programmable-temperatures/27699.md?page=1)