• Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Fair point, I didn’t think of that. Any IoT device gets put in the “naughty” vlan and 99% of their outgoing requests goes straight to /Dev/null

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      An alarm could likely help you accomplish the same thing without the wifi-connected washing machine.

      Whatever works for you works for you, though.

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        Likely an alarm needs to be set every time, a notification of finished load is likely automatic.

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        An alarm could likely help you accomplish the same thing without the wifi-connected washing machine.

        This is only true if every load takes exactly the same amount of time. Modern machines have more sensors to adjust things like water level and spin times. Very often now I start my washer and the time will drop from 1 hour depending on how much is in the machine.

        Plus, the alarm is easy to dismiss and forget about. An actual notification on my phone isn’t.

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          Well, you don’t necessarily need to deal with the laundry the second the machine is ready - if you merely set the alarm to be the approximate maximum time, you’re probably going to be fine with the laundry spending half an hour or so sitting wet in the machine.

          If the alarm is easy to dismiss, then perhaps a reminder app could be of use. I frequently use Google Tasks with a time for the tasks to cope with everyday life, which sends a notification at the specified time.

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      10 months ago

      I have an lg machine with notifications… it’s very helpful.

      We have two young kids, laundry is constant.

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      FWIW I accomplish this with a zigbee outlet on the washer and dryer (dryer is gas, so it’s not a 50a circuit). It has stats on power consumption and I have a home assistant sensor set up so that when it drops below a threshold for a period of time, it counts the washer/dryer as off and notifies me.

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        Only works if you can start a cycle on power on. My machine will just sit there waiting for someone to press the go button.

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          I don’t actually use it to control anything, though I have in the past had an automation to turn off the dryer because GE is total crap and the sound on/off button busted, but the sound is super annoying. But anyway yeah, I’m actually only using these outlets for their sensors to decide if the machines are on or off.

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      Doesn’t have to be connected to the cloud for that, except if you do your laundry when you’re not home.

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      Its a good reason to allow wifi but there is no reason for you to receive such a notification unless your home to act on it, otherwise your better of receiving the notification once your phone reconnect with your homes wifi.

      Wifi isnt the same as internet.

      There is sometimes but rarely a good reason for those same decides to connect to the public web. They are much more secure if everything stays local.

      The prime reason companies claim they need internet so you can set up things like stop heat when i am not home…. But guess what, if my phone isnt activity at home connecting to wifi, my home server can figure it out on its own, no cloud required.