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OriginalGriff wrote: And if your freezer could tell you "I'm getting warm and nothing is happening
when I try to lower the temperature!"?
OK, you've got me there. It might have avoided putting the whole contents of the freezer in the bin last week after a user error involving the door.
Too much information though. I bought a security camera recently after some bloke was spotted half hanging out one of our windows. It's quite good and records everything to a NAS drive I have in the loft. I briefly set it up so it would email me whenever anything triggered it, but that just turned out to be alarmist. Car in road, spider, ghosts, etc. The NAS does email me in the not-infrequent event of a temporary disc failure - that's useful.
Washing machine though? What's it going to say?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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:grins:
We saw one in a catalogue recently when shopping for a replacement. Shopping in the sub 1,000 range, we saw one for about $3500, prompting herself to raise an eyebrow and for me to jokingly exclaim that it probably had wifi at that price.
Much amusement was had by us both when closer examination proved that it actually did. Never seen nor considered such an abomination before then.
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Lets see,
I would program the fridge so that SHE was always out of something when I was out of soda.
For the meals I don't like, I would make the microwave/oven over/under cook them.
I would certainly turn the porch light off at 1am, which my wife loves to leave on all night.
Apparently, if someone wants to break in, she would hate for them to trip, or have to use an
obvious flashlight.
Personally, I can see the amazing ability to take a meal out of the freezer, wave it in front
of my microwave, and have the microwave program the time/energy sequence perfectly (which depends
on the wattage of the microwave, and a bit of my preferences).
Also, having it display any special "hints" on the microwave display. "Remove the plastic you dolt!"
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Great idea!
I could program all the household widgets for behavioral engineering in pervasive and subtle ways.
She wouldn't even see it coming.
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I'd use the IoT API for making sandwiches.
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...when programming a toilet?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Well,
Suddenly... Core Dump, and Trace Log
are making a LOT MORE SENSE!
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About the only case when ON ERROR RESUME NEXT might make some sense...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...only as long as there is no buffer overflow.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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It would not be the first one I know that has a tiny PLC at home controlling inside and outside lights, the sun-blinds, calefaction, garage door and other things in the house.
A friend of mine even goes further (I mean not just ON-OFF binary controls) and has built PID controlling with analog inputs and outputs to regulate temperature in some rooms because he was happy with the equipment but not happy with the regulation of the manufacturer, so he made his own.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You forgot to mention coffee machines! I would program one so it would make me coffee every morning and then in every 3 hours, excluding the time when I sleep(would I even sleep then ? ).
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Wow, I have to get one of those and soon
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Fridge::TotalRefill();
was implemented.
Life is too shor
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It is for utility companies to reduce their costs for meter reading, for asset tracking where companies need any such thing (and hospitals) , for military use, for agriculture and mining etc.
The fridge that tells you when the milk is out of date is secondary to these.
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They're designed for their function in a really very better way! A fridge to cool things down, light to show me the way, TV to force me to watch what everyone else is watching etc. If I can write programs for them, fridge would play radio for me, light would be a source of free
while(true) {
this.Flash()
}
..what was the last one? Oh yeah, TV. If I could I would make it an IDE to write more codes. -_-
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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There's no "middle ground" between "I totally would" and the other choices: while I am not sure this survey was ever intended to be taken seriously, if it was, then its design is questionable.
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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I don't like smart homes, though I worked on smart home project and it was very interesting, but personally I don't want such a house
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I would not let such TV, fridge and washing machine into my house - I have already kids!
As for the outside light - I have none. I do not one people to come over at hours they need light to find my house...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I think you need to get some friends...in the UK winter, it's dark by 15:00 ~ 16:00, and will still be dark by the time you get to work. So...your friends would only be able to visit during both the days of summer!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh.. TV, Fridge, Washing machine.... what else??
Give me a break please...
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"If your beer fridge , outside light, TV and washing machine had an API, would you write apps to control them?"
Of those whose faith and/or current personal circumstances call for abstinence of alcohol, are you offended in CP suggesting you have a beer fridge and/or that, in answering such the Straw Poll, would go against your beliefs and/or personal circumstances?
As for me, I'm offended!!
For, I'm gonna go buy that Raspberry Pi and figure out how to integrate it to my beer, wine, and hard alcohol fridge .
small print: Humor, people. Humor.
And, yes, as a computer programmer, we must needs analyze every angle possible of a given set of parameters, including that of potential 'unfulfilled expectations' of the Project Sponsor (CP, in this case, regarding their Straw Poll).
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How about a little mod on the beer fridge and turn it into an automated self tapping been keg fridge?
Have a cup holder that when the glass/mug gets low it automatically fills and keeps track of it's own level and calls the store and orders a new keg and has it delivered before running out. Would that replace a woman?, probably not but it would be close.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Who wouldn't?
Heck, I've tried to hack the controller for my LED Christmas tree lights, so why would an outside light stay untouched?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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