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Homeowner Baffled After Washing Machine Uses 3.6GB of Internet Data a Day (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Remote start is what I want personally. Timers get 90% of the way there, but if you want to run your machine when power is cheap, needs a bit more granularity. Also, end notification is one thing, but getting a "remaining time" status is also useful for the particularly lazy among us :)

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Ah, my power isn't cheaper at certain times, so I didn't think of that. I wonder if you could control and monitor all of it with an ESP32.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I've thought about soldering one to some of the indicator leds and the start button, but that would require a lot of disassembly that I couldn't bother with yet.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably could, but thats messy and out of reach for most of the general public. I'd consider myself capable, and I still haven't done it despite wanting to.

I'd settle for appliances providing a standardised port for control/monitoring, that you can plug in your own ESP32 controller. Harder to sell to the general public.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Rheeme Econet devices do this. They have an app to control them, but there's also a diagnostic port that exposes everything in the app and a lot more. There's an esp32 project that connects to the port and brings all of that into Home Assistant, no app or wifi needed.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Thats awesome, will keep that in mind for the next upgrade.

While we are shouting out cool projects, for Mitsubishi electric aircon: https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105ESPHome

There is also one for daiken, but I haven't directly tried it.