The increasing use of apps to connect your white goods and home appliances to wifi or bluetooth.

I just read about this on [email protected] but the post was deleted after a few minutes.

so I thought it might be of interests here, plus I’m old, hardly slept last night and I’m bored.

Here’s my take on it.

When I type:

nmcli dev wifi

Into my terminal I see lots of people using wifi for their not very smart white goods and appliances.

when I type these:

sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan

sudo hcitool scan

sudo bluetoothctl --timeout 10 scan on

Into my terminal I see lots of people using bluetooth for their not very smart white goods and appliances.

The most recent addition is a delonghi vertuo espresso machine, masquerading as; ESSID venus-“macaddress”.

Epresso machines. washing machines, fridges, freezers, TV’s, who the fuck connects that shit to the internet.

Have we really forgotten how to press a buttons, twiddle a knob and actually think.

or forgotten how to operate a bialetti moka pot. Yay!

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I want one of these though! Its my invention.

I want a smart arse toilet that notifies me if anyone has left a floater, left a huge skid mark down the side of the pan or pissed on the toilet seat.

To use my smart arse toilet. I would force the users to download the app, login in via wifi with their email and phone number.

It could then take a photo of any delinquent who disrespected my smart arse toilet and send it to the culprit, with a warning that the photo will be uploaded to social media with their name and contact details.

And a further email with my bitcoin address so they can easily send me some blackmail money.

Now that is what I call a smart arse!

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Addendum;

Are these wifi and bluetooth connected devices safe?

As a punishment for not thinking and having no concern for the environment, I’ve decided I am going to de-auth the espresso machine for a few days, so they cant have coffee before work. that will teach them.

Do they not realise that buy buying this shit, they are making the company more money to make even more of this shit.

maybe they will reconsider and dust off their old moka pot, faithfully waiting in the cupboard to be used again.

Kind feedback, with a hint of humour would be much appreciated

  • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’m trying to save money on the power bill so I’ve reluctantly connected a few things to the wifi in the hopes that I can set them up to easily tun in a delayed way to use off-peak power. Turns out, neither the dishwasher nor the washing machine or dryer even support that! The dishwasher does, but you have to use the app every time - you can’t set it up to run delayed by default when you press the start button on the machine

    So, back off the wifi they go. It was the first use I had for ‘smart’ devices and it didn’t even do the thing.

    • Dave.@aussie.zone
      2·
      2 days ago

      Check and see if they can be hooked up to home assistant. If they can, and they expose start/stop functionality, then you can ask HA to start and stop them for you.

      Then you don’t have to deal with the awful app/UI/external cloud server that they usually use.