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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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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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