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My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

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Post by brokenmachine »

EricE wrote: post #410
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Our Breville toaster oven has the same loudness settings, but only 3 total. You clearly have the ability to set the loudness - give me a really quiet (but not silent) option damnit. I have a baby in the house.

Just crack it open and either clip the leads to the "speaker" or put a few layers of tape over it. I too hate appliances with loud beeps - or the new annoying trend of playing songs (usually from the Asian manufacturers). Love my Breville toaster oven though - thing is so stinking versatile and by far the best of any I have ever used. We use it as an oven far more than as a toaster. Perfect for heating/baking most st…

My microwave used to beep 6 times when finished.

Even if you opened the door it would still do all 6 super loud beeps. It became a race to get there with one second left to stop it.

Also every press of any key would emit a loud beep. Stupid.

So I opened it up and snipped the stupid buzzer a while back.

It's so much nicer to have a silent microwave now.

Re: My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

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Post by ludamad »

OtomotO wrote: post #108
ludamad wrote: post #69

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Is detecting clean water not done in software?

I live in a country with only clean water :X

I meant detecting clean water, as opposed to water still washing dishes/dirt

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Post by spookthesunset »

thiht wrote: post #523
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The "smart" stuff on my Sony TV is pretty damn good actually. It has all the major streaming services I use and the remote isn't half bad. It's actually taken over most of the functionality we used the Apple TV for.

Really? I bought a high end Sony Bravia with Android TV and the experience honestly sucks. It’s slow as hell, the sounds are awful, Google pushed fucking ads to the home and the UI is really not very nice looking. There are lots of apps though which is cool.

We probably have similar models. Honestly it is faster than some of the smart tv’s I have and the remote isn’t too shabby at all.

We got the TV mainly because the picture quality was much better than the others they had at Costco.

Re: My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi

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Post by pmontra »

brokenmachine wrote: post #569
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I would find it useful to check whether the dishwasher is currently running. At least BSH has models without any indication outside where the dishwasher is fully hidden behind a frame.

How do you set the wifi password if there's no screen that is capable of showing information? If it has a screen then surely it's possible to show its current status. Or, and bear with me because this is a really crazy idea... how about a single LED to show it's busy?

There is no need of a screen. Either a WPS button or start in access point mode, find its IP address, connect to a web server on that address and set the SSID and password there. I got stuff doing both ways upon the first start up or after a factory reset.

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Post by mikro2nd »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #565
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Maybe... uh... get rid of the carpets in favour of your choice of flooring?

If you are renting that might not be an option

True. Hadn't thought of that.

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Post by jmartinpetersen »

vel0city wrote: post #522
jmartinpetersen wrote: post #142

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I wish my dishwasher could automaticly start whenver the price of electricity was low. I can manualle delay it by doing simple math in my head and forecasting prices, but it would be easier and more foolproof if I could script it with IFTTT.

Your dishwasher probably uses ~1kWh of energy per cycle. Unless you're running your dishwasher a lot , or you're in an area where the difference per kWh is really massive, you're really not saving that much money.

Saturday at peek hours 1kWH cost me 4.27 DKK. Six hours later it was at 1.67 DKK. That's $0.4 saved per kWh. We run our dishwasher every day.

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Post by avh02 »

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The only improvement on that which I've seen is a dishwasher which projects the runtime left onto the floor (instead of just a off/on light).

Why can't it just display that on the screen?

In Germany it's fairly usual to have your dishwasher set in to the kitchen cabinets - you wouldn't know which cupboard is the dishwasher half the time. Having it project on to the floor means you don't need to have a screen that can't be seen while the door is closed (ours has buttons and screen on top edge, which you can't see while the door is closed.)

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Post by usrbinbash »

simplyaccont wrote: post #431
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> Maybe a new cleaning powder comes with a new algo. Or it is treated by the same algorithm like all the other cleaning powders, which is: "mix with water then spray through nozzles". Strangly enough, this has worked great for decades without firmware updates. For the longest time it even worked without firmware.

mile dishwasher has detergent disk with 400g of powder. amount of powder to be dispensed per cycle is configurable.

Mine has a little compartment where I put in a block of pressed powder (a "tab") and then close it.

If I want more, I put in 2 tabs.

If I want none, I put in no tab.

If I want my dishes to smell like soup, I put in a buillon cube. (Not recommended by whoever built the Dishwasher)

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Post by fsflover »

UncleMeat wrote: post #564
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> The number of people who have actually used this lever is incredibly small. Where can I go to a shop and buy, e.g., a laptop with Linux? It's practically impossible. I guess it's because the monopolies don't allow anyone to enter the market. In practice, Linux is already better for many use cases.

Huh? Linux is free. You can stick it on every laptop with just a USB stick. I also have no idea how this is related to the fact that almost no actual consumers are taking advantage of GPL code to continue to maintain their products beyond support offered by their developers. If anything, this would be evidence that GPL software isn't a panacea since doing something as basic as installing Linux is far beyond the capac…

> You can stick it on every laptop with just a USB stick.

Yes, I can do it, but 95% of people can't. Incidentally, about 5% of people run Linux.

> how this is related to the fact that almost no actual consumers are taking advantage of GPL code

Because the more people use the code, the more development occurs there.

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