• amelia@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Not 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. This is a very common situation in Europe where a lot of people live in rental apartments.

    The problem is rather that there needs to be WiFi access in the laundry room.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      7 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.