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9point6 104 points a year ago

A lot of the response I've seen to this post has been "this was unnecessarily complicated".

This makes me incredibly sad.

Who the hell is reading a tinkerer blog and complaining about an elaborate hack?

It's like going to a book club and complaining the story isn't boring enough.

I love this kind of explorative reverse engineering bodge job stuff the best of any kind of engineering tbh

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buffing_lecturer 28 points a year ago

I was bracing myself for some level of absurdity after this disclaimer.

Instead it seemed to be pretty reasonably complicated. They didn't flash some custom firmware or even mess with the hardware at all.

Sure, it is complicated, but in terms of hacks it seems to be par for the course.

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DeviantOvary 5 points a year ago

I've seen a comment complaining about too much oil on the recipe for... chilli crisp oil. Idiots are everywhere.

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bassomitron 31 points a year ago

TIL washers now have WiFi connectivity. Inching ever closer to the dystopic cyberpunk era where you really can hack everything in sight.

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SheeEttin 17 points a year ago

Only a few more years until I can overclock my couch!

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ccdfa 7 points a year ago

I overclocked my clock and now I'm never late!

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onslaught545 1 point a year ago

You can get smart couches right now.

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lka1988 1 point a year ago

Yes, but a couch doesn't stop functioning as a couch if the smart functions stop working.

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onslaught545 2 points a year ago

Neither does a smart washing machine.

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shalafi 7 points a year ago

Cory Doctorow's 'Unauthorized Bread' is about exactly that scenario.

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bassomitron 1 point a year ago

That sounds like a great read, thanks for the information

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AA5B 3 points a year ago

I saw this when I had to get new machines 7-8 years ago. However they were an extra like $300 for each machine. wtf.

I would kill for some sort of audio out or usb, but even better would be Zigbee/z-wave/thread, and you can do it for less than $20 in parts.

Now that Matter/Thread has standard profiles for laundry machines and has a chance of building interoperability, I hope my next machines will, for a reasonable cost and no cloud requirement

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SkyNTP 14 points a year ago

If you just want to know when the clothes are dry, there's an easier way that keeps you in full control: put a ct clamp on the power cord. Doubles as energy monitoring. You can then block that crappy wifi spying system off altogether.

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marlowe221 15 points a year ago

Personally, I use the very technical method of listening for the buzzer to go off…

I hate that everything has WiFi for no reason…

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shortwavesurfer 10 points a year ago

I was thinking a vibration sensor connected to home assistant, but that would work too.

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onslaught545 9 points a year ago

Or just a smart outlet that can track power consumption. Plenty of options that work locally with HA.

But I'd definitely fire up the 3D printer and grab an ESP chip if I was doing this at home.

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shortwavesurfer 3 points a year ago

Thats a bad idea because of power draw overload during motor startups.

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onslaught545 4 points a year ago

You just have to use an outlet rated for the max load.

As far as the esp chip goes, I was meaning more along the lines of using a sensor of some sort.

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crank0271 2 points a year ago

Just listen for the moaning to stop

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deathbird 4 points a year ago

Cool. Would love to dee this done for all the "Smart" appliances.

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shalafi 3 points a year ago

Am old, don't get any of this. 4-5 hour dry times? Did I read that wrong? Mine does a load in 50 minutes, tops. The end of the cycle is fairly easy to figure, since you set the minutes yourself.

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Kolanaki 4 points a year ago

Every dryer I've ever had, you also set the time for it... But it still did whatever the fuck it wanted. Set it to 50 minutes? It takes 2 hours. And none of them have even been modern "smart" devices.

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shalafi 2 points a year ago

That's weird! I've had a dozen dryers over the years, all timed exactly as they said.

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Kolanaki 6 points a year ago

I suspect it's because they had moisture sensors so it would extend the dry time if it was still wet inside beyond a preset minimum of moisture. Most laundrymats this hasn't been an issue. The ones in my apartment are, tho. The washer runs exactly for 25 minutes. The dryer says it will run 45 minutes, but when I come back an hour later it's still going and now the timer says it has 20 minutes left.

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herrvogel 1 point a year ago

This is exactly my experience. I was super confused by the timer on the dryer. Then I called support and they said it was normal for where I live and where the machine sits in the house. Air too humid and spot less than ideal for moisture to be taken away from the machine in a timely fashion.

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NotJohnSmith 2 points a year ago

Interesting read, really like their writing style.

I've got one coming and really can't figure out any meaningful benefit to having the WiFi enabled

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MIXEDUNIVERS 2 points a year ago

i like it

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Funky_Beak 1 point a year ago