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Why are people connecting their machines to wifi in the first place?
It tells them when the cycle is done. Which apparently a beep can't do.
My machines are in a disconnected garage. There's no hearing the beep. And the wash time varies due to load size, to the point that the estimate on the screen isn't very accurate, so seeing a timer isn't great either.
I have never bothered to connect them to wifi yet, though. But a phone notification would have is uses.
That makes sense. My inlaws have theirs hooked to alexa and the machines are the next room over from their living room. Seems like a little over kill.