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> One morning last month, I walked into my kitchen to get a glass of water, but my smart faucet was out of battery. Not sure what on Earth that is, but it does

> One morning last month, I walked into my kitchen to get a glass of water, but my smart faucet was out of battery. Not sure what on Earth that is, but it doesn't sound too smart to me.

zeroping 1y ago
Especially when mamy US homes have AC power available under the sink. So strange that a smart faucet product wouldn't use that.
- IAmBroom 1y ago
  Where? I've never seen that, and given that it's an area routinely transited by lots of running water, it seems stupid. Leaks happen.
  - Dork_Sider 1y ago
    It's for the garbage disposal
alwa 1y ago
Oh! I have a relative who just installed one of those. It’s hands-down the most infuriating thing in the house. The gimmick is that touching anywhere on the faucet body or its handle toggles some kind of solenoid to cut or resume the flow. You still use its physical handle to set the flow and temperature—but the act of touching that handle registers as a “cut off water” capacitive touch. So any time you try to turn on the water, it spits for a fraction of a second then cuts off the flow. Then locks out your subsequent touches as some kind of demented debounce kind of thing. Same thing if you try to pull out its retractable head to wash down the basin. I couldn’t wish a dead battery on it fast enough…
- kirtakat 1y ago
  I have one that I actually like, but it works a bit differently - instead of being capacitive on the faucet - which is infuriating, there is a sensor in the toe kick area under the sink, so if you wave your foot there it turns the water on/off.
  - tbrownaw 1y ago
    That sounds... fun... for people with mobility issues.
  - jauntywundrkind 1y ago
    I have the touch based sensor, came with the rental property. I quite love it: I used to mostly leave water running when doing a couple dishes, but now it's basically instant on or off with the slightest effort. I do want the floor control though! We do have the iot addon, so it is wirelessly controllable. Building a non-contact foot detector is on my to-do list. Via Google Home the delay is 1-2 seconds which kind of sucks, but maybe there's a faster local network control, maybe there's a home-assistant base I can work with. No surprise but man people are real black holes of energy on these topics, eh? You do you, but after a couple days living here the touch sensor quickly went from occasional accidental bother that was pretty easy to avoid to second mature. Similarly yes a foot sensor might be an issue for some people, but to me, it's be a nice additive on-control.

> One morning last month, I walked into my kitchen to get a glass of water, but my smart faucet was out of battery. Not sure what on Earth that is, but it doesn't sound too smart to me.

zeroping 1y ago

Especially when mamy US homes have AC power available under the sink. So strange that a smart faucet product wouldn't use that.

IAmBroom 1y ago
Where? I've never seen that, and given that it's an area routinely transited by lots of running water, it seems stupid. Leaks happen.
- Dork_Sider 1y ago
  It's for the garbage disposal

alwa 1y ago

Oh! I have a relative who just installed one of those. It’s hands-down the most infuriating thing in the house. The gimmick is that touching anywhere on the faucet body or its handle toggles some kind of solenoid to cut or resume the flow. You still use its physical handle to set the flow and temperature—but the act of touching that handle registers as a “cut off water” capacitive touch. So any time you try to turn on the water, it spits for a fraction of a second then cuts off the flow. Then locks out your subsequent touches as some kind of demented debounce kind of thing. Same thing if you try to pull out its retractable head to wash down the basin. I couldn’t wish a dead battery on it fast enough…

kirtakat 1y ago
I have one that I actually like, but it works a bit differently - instead of being capacitive on the faucet - which is infuriating, there is a sensor in the toe kick area under the sink, so if you wave your foot there it turns the water on/off.
- tbrownaw 1y ago
  That sounds... fun... for people with mobility issues.
- jauntywundrkind 1y ago
  I have the touch based sensor, came with the rental property. I quite love it: I used to mostly leave water running when doing a couple dishes, but now it's basically instant on or off with the slightest effort. I do want the floor control though! We do have the iot addon, so it is wirelessly controllable. Building a non-contact foot detector is on my to-do list. Via Google Home the delay is 1-2 seconds which kind of sucks, but maybe there's a faster local network control, maybe there's a home-assistant base I can work with. No surprise but man people are real black holes of energy on these topics, eh? You do you, but after a couple days living here the touch sensor quickly went from occasional accidental bother that was pretty easy to avoid to second mature. Similarly yes a foot sensor might be an issue for some people, but to me, it's be a nice additive on-control.