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Why is your washing machine connected to the internet?

• 4ggr0 4y ago
  Notifications when a cycle is done, time-based starting of cycles (put the clothes in the machine when you leave, but only start the cycle so that it's done when you're back, or just manually start a cycle from your phone while you're away), control your washing machine with voice assistants, maybe a few more things.
  • eur0pa 4y ago
    That sounds like something a simple timer would be able to achieve. To each their own, but the only thing that is connected to the internet in my home is the phone, and the PCs.
    • mavhc 4y ago
      now connect the timer to the network so it can be activated with certain conditions, eg: I'm leaving work, the live traffic estimates 87 mins until I arrive, start the machine so it finishes when I get home. Or: Energy will be cheapest to buy at 2:30am, start then. Or: There is currently enough excess solar power to run the machine only using solar (bonus points for checking weather forcasts)
    • 4ggr0 4y ago
      Yeah my washing machine is not smart either and I don't mind that it's dumb, but I get why people like them. If I had one I would of course add it to a secured VLAN, and not my regular network :D