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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

I guess some kind of home automation setup could start coffee brewing when you wake up or just before you get home.

It does seem like a pretty marginal benefit.

That being said, I have a hard time understanding why so many people own other IoT things, say, smart speakers. Like, I just don't see the problem that they're solving.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I'd love my hifi to have the possibility to be controlled from say my phone, because sometimes it'd be neat. But that's about it. I actually set it up but it's more of a hassle than a benefit so I just dropped it.

    If it wasn't for all the snooping and crap, we'd already have a super home control system, but today is not yet the day...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's not the snooping, it's companies making their own incompatible proprietary system and jealously guarding it to force you to only buy their stuff, except everybody else is doing the same thing so the actual result is that getting things working together and keeping it all working is a pain in the ass.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Coffee machines have had programmable auto-start at X time for decades at this point, no app or internet required, just a digital clock and simple, dumb electronics.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago

    We're still talking about marginal, unnecessary things, but with a "smart" coffee pot, you could in theory start the pot when you're a few minutes away from home, if you like some after work. A pot connected to something like home assistant (which I have no idea if it exists) can brew the pot only on your workdays, or you can start it after you leave the bedroom, regardless of time. You could probably do quite a few "neat" things.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    In my case, throwing alarms on it instead of my phone...

    Saves the room for an alarm clock and my ass in case the phone is out of battery.

    Also controlling music via voice while cooking/with dirty hands or from the phone...

    All of this said, my speaker isn't smart yet, maybe I'll try 1an IR bridge tho. But these use-cases should be achievable with homeassistant

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