Writing tagged "post-mortem"
Post mortem: vendor-agnostic non-invasive washing machine monitoring
The washing machine ETA is a lie.
Everyone agrees, nobody has solutions. No, a washing machine that needs WiFi to do its work is not a solution, just a larger collection of points of failure.
I wanted something that works with any basic, repairable washing machine, and doesn’t void the warranty. So, attaching to traces on the PCB wasn’t an option.
In the end, the computer vision route worked pretty well until the ESPCam I used for it died. That’s why this is a post mortem.