Want a new washing machine?

[vetran]

I can see the advantage of it pinging you when its finished. However that could be done with a doorbell style remote.

[SueEllen]

I can see the advantage of it pinging you when its finished. However that could be done with a doorbell style remote.

What's the point of pinging you when you aren't at home?

[d000hg]

It is so you can put your clothes and soap in. Then when you are at work, time it to run so it spins and dries just before you get home.

Or you can do what everyone else does and manage without it as you aren't suppose to leave washing machines and dryers working unattended due to the risk of fires

Ours has a "what time do you want it to finish" timer mode. Very useful. No internet required.

Some appliances I can see some useful aspects of IoT but not a washing machine. I suppose about the only thing would be to report faults and allow remote debugging/diagnostics/etc.

[DaveB]

It is so you can put your clothes and soap in. Then when you are at work, time it to run so it spins and dries just before you get home.

Or you can do what everyone else does and manage without it as you aren't suppose to leave washing machines and dryers working unattended due to the risk of fires

You mean like the one we have with a timer on it so that you can set it to come on at a specific time.

[vetran]

What's the point of pinging you when you aren't at home?

not much, but if you are out in the garden with a glass of wine waiting for it to finish its handy.

[milanbenes]

most white goods at Chateau Benes are Miele.

All bought at the same time when we had the house built 10 years ago.

The dishwasher had a problem in January, started making a strange sound, being a farmer I said it'll run 'till it breaks, nevertheless we got Miele in to have a look.

Chap turned up in his red van, and he had a Lenovo laptop with him.

Somehow, magnetically he connected something to the stainless steel front part of the machine (where the PC logo is) and amazing for a machine 10 years old he was able to control the whole machine from his laptop.

We told him the problem happens about 1hr into the 1.5hr cycle and I imagined he was going to have to sit there and wait, but no, with his laptop he was able to fast forward the wash cycle to the point where the problem was, diagnose the fault and order the parts and book a day to come back and fix it

How cool is that !

He also showed us that the machine had done 7,500hrs.

A German colleague said these Miele's even 10 years old like mine, the internal software is all written in Java !

Milan.

[northernladyuk]

not much, but if you are out in the garden with a glass of wine waiting for it to finish its handy.

We just need some washing machine / wine interoperability.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/11...sh-smart-wi-fi

The Kuvée Bottle is, without question, one of the most ridiculous Internet of Things devices I've ever seen. It's a Wi-Fi connected wine bottle with a touchscreen that needs to be constantly recharged and is only compatible with proprietary wine cartridges. In exchange for this hassle, it promises to keep wine fresh for up to 30 days. It's exactly the kind of absurd product the Internet of Things is deservedly mocked for, and yet I love it for that very reason.

This is the first product from Kuvée, a young startup out of Boston. There are really two parts to it: the bottle, and the wine cartridge that fits inside it, slid in through an opening at its base. When you put in a new cartridge, the bottle will detect what you're drinking and display a digital label on its touchscreen. It has everything you'd expect to find on a wine's label, like a logo, the grape, and alcohol content, plus a bunch of background information. You can also see photos of who made the wine, read pairing notes, and get full details on the wine's makeup. It'll even estimate how much wine you have left in the bottle.

Using the bottle's touchscreen, you can browse and purchase the other wines available through Kuvée. At launch, there are 48 wines from 12 wineries. "As wide of a variety that we can get," says Ed Tekeian, Kuvée's chief technology officer. For the most part, you'll be looking at wines in the $15 to $30 range, with some going as high as $50 (all sold in standard, 750ml bottles). Kuvée is aiming for the wine drinker who wants something better than Two Buck Chuck, but isn't regularly dropping money on fine, aged bottles. Because it's promising 30 days of freshness, Kuvée imagines that its customers might keep open a couple bottles at a time — maybe a red and a white.

[SueEllen]

not much, but if you are out in the garden with a glass of wine waiting for it to finish its handy.

That would spoil my enjoyment of the wine.

[vetran]

That would spoil my enjoyment of the wine.

not if that's your only job that day.

ping, load washing back to your book.

[northernladyuk]

not if that's your only job that day.

ping, load washing back to your book.

And this is the problem. You're pissed, and then you try to load a machine already full with wet washing.