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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
I was bracing myself for some level of absurdity after this disclaimer.
Instead it seemed to be pretty reasonably complicated. They didn’t flash some custom firmware or even mess with the hardware at all.
Sure, it is complicated, but in terms of hacks it seems to be par for the course.
TIL washers now have WiFi connectivity. Inching ever closer to the dystopic cyberpunk era where you really can hack everything in sight.
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
Only a few more years until I can overclock my couch!
I overclocked my clock and now I’m never late!
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.
I was thinking a vibration sensor connected to home assistant, but that would work too.
Or just a smart outlet that can track power consumption. Plenty of options that work locally with HA.
But I’d definitely fire up the 3D printer and grab an ESP chip if I was doing this at home.
Personally, I use the very technical method of listening for the buzzer to go off…
I hate that everything has WiFi for no reason…
i like it
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.
Every dryer I’ve ever had, you also set the time for it… But it still did whatever the fuck it wanted. Set it to 50 minutes? It takes 2 hours. And none of them have even been modern “smart” devices.
That’s weird! I’ve had a dozen dryers over the years, all timed exactly as they said.
