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Pyrometers are fine for about the first 12 times you use them.

Then they be come a very spoiled child that demands your attention and it never ever grows up.

Go with the computer control. She will never have to plan her day around baby sitting a kiln that will annoy her with tweaking the temperature down 50 degrees aver half hour for three straight hours.

The ability to tell the computer what to do and then come back in 7 hours after it has done exactly what you told it to do is like hiring someone else to baby sit, honest.

And then there are other things you can do like fusing and slumping and maybe precious metal clay that can best be done with a 'smart kiln'.