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Can you put in clothes remotely? Or take them out remotely? No? Then IOT is pretty much useless in this case.
I’d like to put clothes in the washer in the morning and have it start an hour before I get home.
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Low-usage data-only cellular service, obtained in bulk, is becoming very cheap. I have one device in my home now that use cellular service paid by the manufacturer to report back telemetry. It could have easily been WiFi, but they seem to have found the somewhat higher cost of cellular is worth it to avoid the setup complexity.
Suddenly homebrew Stingray cell tower devices seem reasonable, with only enough power to force IoT devices to sink their connections with them into a blackhole instead of your closest tower.
This is far more difficult to achieve than you might think, and incredibly illegal.
What worries me is that soon we won't be able to monitor this anymore because these devices won't be dependent on a customer-supplied internet connection anymore. Instead, they'll all have cellular connectivity and we'll have no idea what is being sent, to whom and why. And I fear that there will be no device manufacturers in the same price range left that don't include this feature. Similar to how Smart TV's are che…
Don't worry, the rich will still be able to build faraday cage homes...
Ask yourself why you need a dryer that needs wi-fi.
So I could control the dryer remotely. So I can get a notification when the dryer is finished. So I could be alerted if some goes wrong with the dryer or if it needs a service.
The ones mentioned, we could already read in the company's marketing material...
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I wouldn't be surprised if we get internet-only appliances soon, which charge customers on a pay-per-use basis. Considering the low margins on the average whitegoods, it could be an attractive business model to bundle the consumables with the hardware as part of a subscription/PAYG model. Or you could lockdown certain modes and temperatures behind a paywall. Similar how the car industry is already doing it.
See `Unauthorized Bread` https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
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Home automation seems to mainly achieve "low low benefits". Like turning on a light from your phone instead of using a light switch. These things make some minor conveniences possible, but don't come close to being essential. It doesn't seem worth it for the privacy, security, management overhead, cost, etc.
There are some valid use cases though. For example loading a washing machine in the morning, then starting it a hour before I plan to drive home. This one can be a real quality of life changer. Nothing is really essential in our life. Do you really need washing machine? You can do laundry by hand. It saves time and more convenient to use a machine. The problem with a lot of automation schemes is that it takes more ti…
I found out that it was constantly pinging a Chinese site/portal don’t remember the name. It’s not one of the known famous ones.
I had to disconnect it from Internet..
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So I could control the dryer remotely. So I can get a notification when the dryer is finished. So I could be alerted if some goes wrong with the dryer or if it needs a service.
I think the parent meant actual reasons, not bogus ones with zero marginal utility... The ones mentioned, we could already read in the company's marketing material...
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So I could control the dryer remotely. So I can get a notification when the dryer is finished. So I could be alerted if some goes wrong with the dryer or if it needs a service.
I think the parent meant actual reasons, not bogus ones with zero marginal utility... The ones mentioned, we could already read in the company's marketing material...
You could get an estimated time for when the clothes are going to be dried. Often I have to switch on the dryer a second time as the clothes aren’t completely dry.
If the water collection tank is full in my dryer it essentially stops drying the clothes so if I could get an alert that the tank was full I could empty it or maybe alert someone in the house that it needs to be emptied.
Often if I’m washing clothes at night I don’t turn on the drier as some people have gone to bed, I normally leave the clothes in the drier. So if I could get an alert based on the weather the next morning if it makes sense to hang out the clothes before I go to work or is it going to rain and the drier will switch it on and be finished before I come home from work.