I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop
We have a dehumidifier that can connect to WiFi. I think that's one of more strange wifi of things. Like how hard is it to set a humidity and then just empty the bucket a couple times a day. Maybe I just don't realize that it's a necessary feature but I've been emptying buckets for 18 years now and it's not a big deal. And now my husband hooked a hose to it so now I don't even need to empty a bucket, it just does it's job
Our attention spans are so low that we need reminders to dump the bucket on our phone because that's the only thing we pay attention to.
Unrelated, but I appreciate your comment because I actually need to empty mine now. I'd forgotten about it. We are averaging about five gallons a day produced in our bedroom right now!
Alternatlively, you could just make the fing thing beep. If you're not in range of hearing a mildly loud beep and only get the notification from your phone, you're not in a position to do anything about a full bucket anyway.
Honestly, since it condensates from a coil, bacteria growth should actually be a huge concern. Would be great if you had a limited water supply and you boiled it, though. Could keep the family alive for a while, anyway.
Dehumidifiers that can connect to WiFi and Bluetooth were started for commercial use. It was so restoration companies wouldnāt have to go to a customerās home or place of business just to monitor the equipment. They could see how the atmospherics were doing (RH, temp, grain depression, etc) from the company app.
That makes complete sense. But for regular homeowner, it seem a bit unnecessary. Unless it's going in a crawlspace and in that case you want one specifically for that purpose.
It's probably not necessary for home usage, but there are definitely commercial uses like for museums and things to be able to know remotely what the humidity is in a space.
My dehumidifier is 46 years old (my parents got it when they got married). It has on/off and a big old square bucket. It's brown and orange. I bought a new one 5 years ago, it's already broken.
What I hate is that they could easily put a floor water sensor for the very very rare times of a leak & most donāt spend the money on that. Most connect just to harvest runtime data, use those metrics to make devices that barely cover those expectations.
We could easily be prioritizing repairability but these days youāll almost never find a small humidifier/window a/c repair man. Itās ācheaperā to buy the next worst version of what you had.
Emptying a bucket a couple times a day fucking sucks. We have a dehumidifier in our crawlspace that works great. Its a pain in the ass to get to so I ran the hose outside same as your husband. Bluetooth/wifi is good for checking things but you also can just install a $10 themometer/hydrometer with Bluetooth so you can check period that the humidity is being maintained properly. If itās easy to reach itās whatever.
That condensation pump could use a wifi alarm, though, because if that stops the dehumidifier is just pumping water all over the floor until someone notices.
Sometimes I get it. Busy people might forget their dehumidifier is full if it's out of sight. I have one in my basement that fills up twice per day so I think getting a notification could be helpful.
We didn't really have a drain set up and then we did some basement renovations and added a sump pump and he was able to direct the hose there. It honestly was no big deal. I'm down there switching laundry anyways or getting something from our freezers.
They can be placed in a remote location with a drain and be run / monitored remotely. Usually the WiFi ones are heavier duty. Basic non-WiFi ones are everywhere for cheap
That's why I bought a speed queen from a laundromat that was going out of business. Gave a heavy wash and just pop a few quarters in it.
Works like a dream. And there are lots of spare parts.
I bought a Speed Queen residential washer and dryer on the recommendation from my buddy who is an appliance repair technician.
I'm on 5 years without a single issue. And I have two small kids. It gets used basically every 3 hours 7 days a week.
I'm so happy that I'm saving up to buy two of the Speed Queen washer/dryer combo units. And I'll likely be able to sell my washer and dryer to defer the costs because they'll still work great. No notes. I'll be a customer for life.
When it was time for a new washer, we went with a Speed Queen. The last HE washer we had was a nightmare. This one is pretty much as basic as you can get, but it is tough and gets my laundry done in under 30 min.
I didn't, I just watch a lot of videos about privacy and one thing they found was that the washer was generating significantly more traffic than you would expect.
I don't have one that does that, the comment is a hypothetical given the direction things are headed. There was a video about appliances that send data to the internet and a washing machine was sending WAY more data than made sense.
If you're american the answer is very simple; because of what the people voted for. The data your washing machine uploads generates profit for a certain family, the geriatric patriarch of whom is currently your president.
To be completely fair all around here (tuh be faaaaaiiiiyyyy-uhhh) - there are appliances that are totally basic and last a really long time,Ā and honestly? They're somehow more expensive e.g. speed queen washer and dryers
Biggest scam ever is all these appliances with WiFi and Internet connection. Just a way for the appliance company to program in a shut-down when they feel like you should be making a new purchase.
You would need to write the encryption information to a file on the device that negotiated it. For example if you want to decrypt your own https packets on your own computer in wireshark you need to have chrome writing information about the encryption handshakes to a file that you then load in wireshark with the packet capture.
When I moved from my home town and got my first apartment and was broke AF I hacked my neighbors WiFi. It had WPA encryption but had WPS enabled which was vulnerable. Took about 10 hours with my laptop and I still remember the password was vivahorchata.
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I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop