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Paul Adsett
Film God

Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2017 07:23 PM

This past weekend our water heater crapped out. It's at least 25 years old, or about 10 years beyond normal lifespan, and knowing the exhorbitant cost of any in-home repairs, I decided to just replace it.
So, I phoned up my local plumbing company and asked them "Do you sell and install water heaters". The reply " yes we do", followed by "do you want one with WiFi" !!!!!! I said "are you serious?
Well it turns out that the latest thing really is water heaters with built in WiFi so that you can have a "conversation" with it on your smart phone.
I told them to come with a basic standard water heater! [Big Grin]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 25, 2017 08:07 PM

You have my sympathies, Paul.

Our new washing machine has WiFi...

-although two years down the road we still aren't sure exactly "Wi"!

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Tom Spielman
Master Film Handler

Posts: 339
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Apr 2016

posted January 25, 2017 08:45 PM

I agree that many of these "smart appliance" features are solutions looking for problems. There are real benefits to some of it. For example there are shutoff valves that can detect where there's a water leak while you're away, shut the water off and send you a notification that there's a problem.

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Graham Ritchie
Film God