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

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

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Post by eimrine »

FredPret wrote: post #16
eimrine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raspberry is an overkill for this task. A few transistors and the cheapest FM transmitter might solve this.

But I want a bit to be flipped somewhere, so I can check at my leisure. If I miss the FM transmission I have to go down the hall to check again (Over the past ten years I've missed the last 100% of all FM transmissions passing through my local area)

If washing is not ready (currency is high) do nothing except of maybe accumulating energy.

Else send an endless beep on any frequency you like before you manage to take your laundry and disactivate your FM beeper.

It still can be implemented using a few transistors. Bonus points if implementation of this will be done in such a way that other folks can have a good use of the device.

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

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Post by LeanderK »

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…

I have recently come to the conclusion that a major problem is that there is no "local" internet. You either have websites somewhere out of local network or some app-based solution, but there's no "dishwasher.local". And you can't burden consumers with IP addresses.

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

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Post by sgerenser »

bartkappenburg wrote: post #9
jve wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For "I'm done" notification, I use relay with power metering - looking at the power pattern, home assistant can be set up for notification after x time when that graph drops to floor.

Exactly, that's also my setup. Works as a charm! The power meter is a zwave switch which sits between the socket and the washing machine.

Same here. I’m sitting here reading stuff about reporting time remaining and wondering why that matters? Isn’t the concern just when its done?

I got one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LN3C7WK . Connected it to my HomeBridge server (all local), set up a push notification using when the energy drops below 5 watts (which happens about 1-2 minutes after the cycle ends).

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

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Post by thunfischbrot »

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…

I enjoyed this reverse engineering, using a direct connection within your home network after the keys have been extracted after an initial authorization to the Bosch/Siemens cloud: https://trmm.net/homeconnect/

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

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Post by oefrha »

LeanderK wrote: post #22
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…

I have recently come to the conclusion that a major problem is that there is no "local" internet. You either have websites somewhere out of local network or some app-based solution, but there's no "dishwasher.local". And you can't burden consumers with IP addresses.

There is “local” Internet, it’s called LAN. There’s “dishwater.local” if someone (manufacturer included, though I’m pretty firmly against IoS devices) bothers to set it up. Local nodes can do multicast/broadcast DNS and discover each other. You’ve probably seen it if you ever used a WiFi-connected printer on LAN.

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

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Post by zeristor »

I've just had a "Smart" Samsung washing machine installed.

It says it is Internet ready. I am not sure what they mean by internet ready, it seems I have to change the name of the WiFi point to have no crazy characters, and just have 2.4 Ghz, turning 5GHz off in order to connect it.

But this means my smart scales now need to be set up since the WiFi name has changed.

Am I missing a trick, I guess it is possible to set up, but it is a bit gruelling.

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

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Post by mike50 »

zeristor wrote: post #26

I've just had a "Smart" Samsung washing machine installed. It says it is Internet ready. I am not sure what they mean by internet ready, it seems I have to change the name of the WiFi point to have no crazy characters, and just have 2.4 Ghz, turning 5GHz off in order to connect it. But this means my smart scales now need to be set up since the WiFi name has changed. Am I missing a trick, I guess it is possible to set…

Ahh 10 year old wifi problems. Did you try the hex key instead of ASCII?

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

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Post by GuB-42 »

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…

For your appliances, maybe look at the commercial market. You usually get minimalism and quality material (lots of stainless steel). Often good reparability, but not much open sourcing I am afraid. And certainly several times the price.

Note that commercial dishwashers are not at all like their consumer counterparts. They don't really wash the dishes, they sanitize them after they have been properly rinsed, and a cycle takes minutes instead of hours.

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

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Post by bramd »

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…

Totally agree. Buying new appliances is hard if you are blind. It's either very cheap stuff that still has buttons, expensive stuff with touch screens which are unusable to me or expensive stuff that has touch screens and an app to control it. Besides not willing to fiddle with a phone and an app for every single action, the expensive stuff with apps will be unusable sooner or later when the software stops getting support and the appliance is still there.
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