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They must bé really bored then.Just another way for the scammers to access your data.
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Oh - yours as well!
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Yes, a robot made by a robot, it’s a race to the bottom. We will eventually end up sat at home doing nothing in the way of work or household chores watching these little gadgets wizzing about and wondering which body organs to sell to pay for them
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skotl
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They are quite common (and useful). Of course, you need to leave the switch turned on then the app controls whether the bulbs light up or not.
Often they have a manual override, say switching off-and-on twice quickly, will cause them to come on.
Ours are controlled by coming on at sunset-30 minutes and off at 23:30, if nobody is in the house. Otherwise, via "Alexa - turn living room on/off" (it genuinely is easier than it sounds!)
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I have a friend who has Alexa. For reasons known only to him he uses a speaker phone.
we (his mates) have fun on the phone to him randomly shouting out Alexa commands
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Memmeddu
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We have a jobsite blocked because it was meant to be 65k euros paid from the bank to do a green house and the engineer (as always bad engineers have to do things bigger than what's supposed to be) called another company to do house automations going way over budget at 250k worth in automation.Yes, a robot made by a robot, it’s a race to the bottom. We will eventually end up sat at home doing nothing in the way of work or household chores watching these little gadgets wizzing about and wondering which body organs to sell to pay for them
Bob
We will not see money until the judge gives us an answer .
We just did the thermal insulation ...
And it's not a luxury house , it's more like a popular house .
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So it can communicate with the pressure washer and plan a revolution in the workshop.....
skotl
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Yeah - my mate said he was going to wait till we were on holiday (obviously this was more than a year ago!), then come to our house and shout through the letterbox:I have a friend who has Alexa. For reasons known only to him he uses a speaker phone.
we (his mate) have fun in the phone to him randomly shouting out Alexa commands
"Alexa! Play thrash metal!"
"Alexa! Full volume!"
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When you have a bluetooth kettle and toilet you will be able to make a cuppa and flush the toilet while you are out, no point but i bet people will buy them.
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Memmeddu
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"Alexa! Play Nicky Jam EL FENIX !"
"Alexa! Skip casate conmigo or my heart will stop at the start"
Had a look at my mates Karcher ( it was kissing water from inside) the internals were all plastic including the pump. New part available £80+ in the skip it went, total piece of carp. Reputation down the pan.
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One useful job for bluetooth in cordless tools is to turn the dust extractor on/off when you start up a saw for example.
I also have a laser measure that links to the phone and that's very handy.
My angle grinder, well, I can go to the back of the van, pick it up, pull the trigger briefly to activate the bluetooth, go to the front of the van, pick my phone up, scroll through to find the app, open the app, wait while it looks for an internet connection, decline the update for the app, press skip on the new special offers, press the tab for tools, press the tab for connected tools, click the grinder tab, click close on the box asking me what I want to rename the tool too, click the little icon next to the grinder tab, wait while it connects, decline to add any new tools that it seems to think it has found, look at a pretty rotating picture of the grinder, find the small setting icon, click that.
Then I can turn the led light on or off
AND I can even adjust how bright it is.
I suspect the pressure washer will be just as usefull.
Unless it connects to the car and automatically raises the suspension and shuts the sunroof when you start washing..
Like most things, it could probably be a lot more useful if there was a bit more worldwide cooperation and a bit less corporate greed but there is no way a milwaukee saw can control a dewalt dust extractor.
I also have a laser measure that links to the phone and that's very handy.
My angle grinder, well, I can go to the back of the van, pick it up, pull the trigger briefly to activate the bluetooth, go to the front of the van, pick my phone up, scroll through to find the app, open the app, wait while it looks for an internet connection, decline the update for the app, press skip on the new special offers, press the tab for tools, press the tab for connected tools, click the grinder tab, click close on the box asking me what I want to rename the tool too, click the little icon next to the grinder tab, wait while it connects, decline to add any new tools that it seems to think it has found, look at a pretty rotating picture of the grinder, find the small setting icon, click that.
Then I can turn the led light on or off
AND I can even adjust how bright it is.
I suspect the pressure washer will be just as usefull.
Unless it connects to the car and automatically raises the suspension and shuts the sunroof when you start washing..
Like most things, it could probably be a lot more useful if there was a bit more worldwide cooperation and a bit less corporate greed but there is no way a milwaukee saw can control a dewalt dust extractor.
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Yep. Just reopened my K2 for the second time in a year (totally my fault - left it outside in the winter and it blew the outlet hose) and it's 100% plastic.
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The wife will...wonder if the app can tell you if you've missed a bit
AndersK
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Welcome to the club
Motors are water cooled and there is no way to drain them completely so frost will kill them.
My first Kärcher lasted 20 years, stored in garden shed during winter. Second killed first winter... Thought I could treat it the same.
Third leaked after first winter, stored in heated area, but repaired under warranty.
O-ring failure, not cracked.
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Some apps/connectivity have their place. Where I work we do a lot of measuring with callipers, we have just acquired a set with a Bluetooth module that sends the readings straight to an app on a tablet which also sends them to the lab management system. No longer need to write down hundreds of readings each day.
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Just found this on the Karcher website: K 5 Smart Control: pressure washer with Bluetooth, application consultant app
Consultant App!?! What an earth.. if you need an app to use a pressure washer then you are definitely not competent to...
App for App sake, i have loads of smart tech but only when it actually improves my life by making it easier...
Consultant App!?!
What an earth.. if you need an app to use a pressure washer then you are definitely not competent to...App for App sake, i have loads of smart tech but only when it actually improves my life by making it easier...
