Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day
amelia@feddit.de 5 months agoNot trying to defend stupid internet connectivity but my washing machine is in the basement in a shared laundry room while I live on the second floor of the apartment building. No way I’ll hear it beep so a notification would be very useful actually.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Is this washing machine yours? Or is it owned by the landlord? If it’s the landlord’s, that’s a different problem entirely, since now you need multiple people to have separate configurations on the same device to get notifications, but only when their particular load is finished.
I can absolutely see a reason to have “smart” laundromats for things like error codes, abandoned loads, usage statistics, maintenance history, full coin reservoir, etc. That’s the type of problem a shared laundry room would have as well, and it would be fairly easy to add a “tap to notify” feature where you scan a QR code or tap with NFC to get remote access to it.
But for a typical home situation where the laundry machine is the apartment or house, I really don’t see a point, and it’s just a liability.
amelia@feddit.de 5 months ago
It is mine. There is a room with each tenant’ washing machine in the basement and that is a typical situation in Germany.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Huh, I’ve never heard of that before. Interesting.