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Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by davemp »

majormajor wrote: post #127
belugacat wrote: post #6

Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those servers are 3rd party to me) just to notify them of a numerical value when they’re sitting literally 10 meters away (I live in the countryside and experience internet interruptions not…

Personally, "open source" is very low on the list of things that would convince me to pay several thousands dollars extra per appliance. That's just way too much money for something like "avoid pushing the buttons or getting up without needing third party servers." I'll just push the buttons, thanks. Even just paying multiple times more for reliability in the forms of quality components is a hard sale. What if I move…

> Even just paying multiple times more for reliability in the forms of quality components is a hard sale.

Hard to justify 2-4 the cost when a consumer has no idea if it will last 2-4 times as long (or the warranty will be honored).

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by jemmyw »

londons_explore wrote: post #46
jemmyw wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a real PITA because the dryer time is fairly consistent. Leave stuff sitting wet in the washing machine too long and it picks up a musty smell, so ideally the dryer is done before the washing machine. But the washing machine is so bad at estimating it's remaining time, and it is dependent on the load.

This suggests you are doing multiple loads back to back... Which in turn suggests you are either seperating whites and coloured clothes (no longer necessary with modern clothing, detergents and low temp wash cycles), or you are underfilling your machine (modern machines can wash about 20 lbs of clothes - 100 tshirts - in one go without wash quality degrading).

3 kids and some foster animals, so I have normal full loads plus some stuff that really needs to be washed separately. On a normal day it's not a problem. But if anything happens that causes a washing backlog then it starts getting logistical and that's when the timer makes things harder. I don't separate whites except for my kids karate gear. My washing machine does 10kg which is 22lbs. I try to fill it where possible.

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by jemmyw »

skazazes wrote: post #99
londons_explore wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This suggests you are doing multiple loads back to back... Which in turn suggests you are either seperating whites and coloured clothes (no longer necessary with modern clothing, detergents and low temp wash cycles), or you are underfilling your machine (modern machines can wash about 20 lbs of clothes - 100 tshirts - in one go without wash quality degrading).

In my experience, separating whites (not only so they can be bleached when wanted) from darks from colors is definitely still necessary? I actually turned a beige sweater that snuck into the wrong load beige-blue just yesterday with a pair of AG Jeans that have been washed every other week since I got them two years ago

I don't see much colour running happening except with brand new clothing, which I always wash separately the first time. Maybe you're washing too hot?

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by fountainofage »

michaelt wrote: post #112
fountainofage wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've reminded me of a friend of mine who reached the point in his life where he was going to furnish his home with new furniture. He boasted how he was only going to buy American and wasn't going to be like everyone else favoring stuff from elsewhere. After one day of furniture shopping exclusively American, he said he couldn't justify spending so much just to buy American. And I was dumbfounded. Like he honestly b…

> Like he honestly believed people weren't buying American-made because they actually favored stuff from China. Perhaps he imagined American-made carried a 30% price premium over Chinese-made, but instead found it was more of a 300% price premium.

That's a fair interpretation. Admittedly I've known him long enough that I'm familiar with these experiences of his, so I didn't probe too much into this exact event and what he thought everyone else was doing.

He also at one point pursued a diet in which he'd eat vegan as long as it was the best option available. And it was just like ... that's almost what literally everyone else does? He seemed to believe most people just ignored certain menu options by default, versus ordering the item that seemed most appealing to them. He thought people looked at a menu and thought "oh, that eggplant vegetable medley sounds amazing! Drat, it doesn't have chicken, guess I'll just get the cheeseburger."

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by jemmyw »

jve wrote: post #13
jemmyw wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a real PITA because the dryer time is fairly consistent. Leave stuff sitting wet in the washing machine too long and it picks up a musty smell, so ideally the dryer is done before the washing machine. But the washing machine is so bad at estimating it's remaining time, and it is dependent on the load.

My drier says its 2 min left but it keeps updating the ending time... well it is somewhere near the end, just maybe measuring humidity and carrying on?

Mine does that if the filters got unusually clogged by the last load and I didn't notice and clean them.

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by psd1 »

NickNameNick wrote: post #78
BeefWellington wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've often wondered why no new manufacturer has appeared with a stacked system that can wash clothes in a top washer and then dump them into a bottom dryer, or even an all-in-one frontloader.

Combo washer/driers exist. They typically have less capacity than stand-alone units.

Drying performance is shit. Especially since you can pack a washing-machine fairly full without affecting performance, but a tumble-dryer needs to be loosely filled. But even so, the combo machines don't dry well.

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by maweki »

dylan604 wrote: post #128
Dragony wrote: post #93

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I actually worked on an App for a company that made home appliances. Originally they made everything local, so direct App to Washing machine communication. They had a really hard time with that approach for a number of reasons. The first, and most obvious, reason is that getting your phone and (all) your appliances on the same network is non-trivial. Especially for a novice user. Sometimes the washing machine is in t…

>Sometimes the washing machine is in the basement and can't connect to your WiFi ...snip... >The cloud approach solves this. How? You just stipulated the machine can't connect to wifi

Your WiFi.

They clearly stated that getting devices on the same network is non-trivial. Obviously, at a place where no network access exists anyways, neither local nor cloud solutions will work.

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by nsxwolf »

belugacat wrote: post #6

Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those servers are 3rd party to me) just to notify them of a numerical value when they’re sitting literally 10 meters away (I live in the countryside and experience internet interruptions not…

That sounds neat, but pay several times more? I'd have a hard time justifying 10% more for that to my wife.

Re: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

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Post by dzhiurgis »

belugacat wrote: post #6

Great hack, but I’m sure any engineer worth their salt winces at the thought of a machine in their home roundtripping through far away 3rd party servers (I guess they’re the manufacturer’s, but if it’s hardware I own in my house those servers are 3rd party to me) just to notify them of a numerical value when they’re sitting literally 10 meters away (I live in the countryside and experience internet interruptions not…

> any engineer worth their salt

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

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