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"It's really inexplicable. They have nice industrial design, good brand recognition, no shortage of money behind them, and they screw up at every conceivable tu
by rsync 11y ago
"It's really inexplicable. They have nice industrial design, good brand recognition, no shortage of money behind them, and they screw up at every conceivable turn."
Ipso Facto. They can't not screw it up.
A critical component of infrastructure should not be IP addressable. It should not be "on your wifi". It should not have a login or a password. It should be as dumb as possible and as simple as possible - and as anti-fragile to all of these events as possible.
It's not possible to have this "feature set" and not have this pain. It's a fools errand to pursue it.
- kuschku 11y agoYes, it is possible: Have a microcontroller that stores the time table for when to set which temperature, and applies it. Have a second processor, with internet access, that updates this table. Simple as that.
- MagnumOpus 11y ago> It's not possible to have this "feature set" and not have this pain. It's a fools errand to pursue it. It is possible. Their competitors seem to achieve it at the same price point to a much better degree (case in point: the British Gas myHome that I own and its newer cousin, the Hive). It helps that they don't shrug their shoulders about software bugs and in general don't roll out untested cowboy code on critical home appliances...