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TIL washers now have WiFi connectivity. Inching ever closer to the dystopic cyberpunk era where you really can hack everything in sight.
Only a few more years until I can overclock my couch!
You can get smart couches right now.
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
I’ve seen a comment complaining about too much oil on the recipe for… chilli crisp oil. Idiots are everywhere.
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.
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.
Personally, I use the very technical method of listening for the buzzer to go off…
I hate that everything has WiFi for no reason…
I was thinking a vibration sensor connected to home assistant, but that would work too.
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.
Just listen for the moaning to stop
