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The Fridge has an API so 33% feel compelled to use it??
You need to get out more.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Not really. I am a bit of an efficiency enthusiast. I already have a home automation solution in the works, and the ability to collect data from electronics and control them so that they waste less energy is a good thing in my mind.
Find out when the fridge uses the most electricity. Does it have some way to track its contents? Send me an email alert when the water filter is about a month from expiration. If it is dark outside, but no-one is out there, turn it off. If it comes on at night, take a picture with the security camera.
After 8PM? Auto-turn down the TV to keep the living room a little quieter. Track the time and channels that are being watched, maybe they can be pruned from the cable bill.
Turn off lights in rooms I don't use. Turn off the air when no-one has been there for 20 minutes. Only turn on lights at 20% of full brightness when after midnight until 6:00 AM. Alert me when someone drives up in the drive-way.
By automating the house, there are energy savings to be made, security to be increased, and a lot of menial tasks that can be taken off your plate. I count this blog as being my initial inspiration to get into home automation: http://blog.abodit.com/[^].
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It's taken you 10 years, 10 months to notice? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, I kind of knew it. But as I clicked on this survey I thought I knew what the answer would be and a resounding one at that. Wrong!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Better late than never!
Jeremy Falcon
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So a completely static beer fridge is ok with you?
I want to add legs onto mine, and program it follow me about the place! 
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Ha ha, good one  . Honda might snatch this idea and work on this after they are done with ASIMO...
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if (Fridge.Contains(beer))
Fridge.temp = Fridge.DefaultTemp - 5;
else
ErrorMessage("No Beer left in fridge!!!!!")
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OMG... Then you could trigger an order to Asda (Walmart) !!!!
All the best
Rob
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Rob Philpott wrote: You need to get out more.
Amen to that brother.
Jeremy Falcon
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You forgot the fun on closing the fridge when my wife arrives. Then opens. Then closes.
Finally she will run in fear to... me ! 
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Programming and fridge here... and nobody has still said BACON!?
Imagine a Fridge with a CListCtrl and filled of Bacon! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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I've gotten pretty good at using light switches over the years. If making a grocery list, punching buttons on a microwave, or changing the thermostat is such a chore that you need to bring an API into it, what kind of life are you leading?
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Quite.
I saw this washing machine in John Lewis pushing £2k recently which comes with an app for your smartphone. For the love of God, why??
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Because... just because
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So you can load it before you leave in the morning and start it so it will finish as you get home?
That way, the freshly washed clothes don't sit there damp, and get horribly creased and wrinkled.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good idea, but my humble £300 one does that with a delay timer. Tip - get one which takes a big load. (Pardon)
Have we not got enough to deal with day-to-day without some smartarse washing machine interjecting factlets about its washing cycle? Oh yes and the fridge is feeling a little warm. A world of appliance PMT. No thank you!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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And if your freezer could tell you "I'm getting warm and nothing is happening when I try to lower the temperature!"?
Me? I'd want to know - it's 12cu ft and I'd stand to lose a lot of food if Herself had unplugged it to hoover and forgot to plug it back in.
At the moment all I have is a temperature warning light...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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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