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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
TIL washers now have WiFi connectivity. Inching ever closer to the dystopic cyberpunk era where you really can hack everything in sight.
Cory Doctorow’s ‘Unauthorized Bread’ is about exactly that scenario.
That sounds like a great read, thanks for the information
I saw this when I had to get new machines 7-8 years ago. However they were an extra like $300 for each machine. wtf.
I would kill for some sort of audio out or usb, but even better would be Zigbee/z-wave/thread, and you can do it for less than $20 in parts.
Now that Matter/Thread has standard profiles for laundry machines and has a chance of building interoperability, I hope my next machines will, for a reasonable cost and no cloud requirement
Cool. Would love to dee this done for all the “Smart” appliances.
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…
Am old, don’t get any of this. 4-5 hour dry times? Did I read that wrong? Mine does a load in 50 minutes, tops. The end of the cycle is fairly easy to figure, since you set the minutes yourself.
