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>In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range of smart home actions, including third-party gadgets. For example, people could set their Pop buttons to launch Philips Hue or Insteon lighting presets, play a playlist from their Sonos speaker, or control Lutron smart blinds. Each button could store three actions, worked by identifying smart home devices on a shared Wi-Fi network, and was controllable via a dedicated Android or iOS app. The Pop Home Switch Starter Pack launched at $100, and individual Pop Add-on Home Switches debuted at $40 each. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste. According to copies of the email shared via Reddit, Logitech’s notice said:

Archive: https://archive.today/eVI3f From the post: >>In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range of smart home actions, including third-party gadgets. For example, people could set their Pop buttons to launch Philips Hue or Insteon lighting presets, play a playlist from their Sonos speaker, or control Lutron smart blinds. Each button could store three actions, worked by identifying smart home devices on a shared Wi-Fi network, and was controllable via a dedicated Android or iOS app. The Pop Home Switch Starter Pack launched at $100, and individual Pop Add-on Home Switches debuted at $40 each. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste. According to copies of the email shared via Reddit, Logitech’s notice said:

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I used to have one of those Amazon buttons. Cool Idea, kiked the fuck out. Bought the Tide branded button, so I can order fucking Tide right? I can't order the KIND of tide I use. I don't know some fuck fresh pussy sent or something. No, no I can't order the HE version, what ever. I can however the regular "smells like every nigger" sent or "for ghetto washers". Tried so many things, subscription assignment, etc etc. Ripped it off the front of the washer and threw in the trash.

At the time no one had hacked it, and it only seemed to interface with like an Echo or some shit.

The idea of a single button to do some things, and possbily connect to automation was a neat idea.

Especially for the slave that does the laundry.

I still have some harmony remotes that interface with my HA system, via IR, and that is nice to have sitting on the cough, turn on fan, or a scene button. But thats programable IR and not tied to some shit hub logicunt provides.

but I ramble....must be ai slop.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, after some people hacked them they became way more useful than what they were built for in the first place.

They really fucked up with a golden opportunity for a consumer capture device. Though, should I feel like that is a bad thing?

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I think having a 433mhz set of devices that could be around the house to trigger things is a nice idea. Push button, laundry slave comes to clean the bedroom or shitter.

I guess I could use the lutron pico remotes for a similar task. Most of the automation buttons look like faggotry shit.

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Home Assistant + hacked about anything or ESP based devices you can build yourself or re-flash with a custom firmware. I try to post and I should be posting some of my own projects but I have not had time to. Lots of things going on in life.

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It's kind of amusing that you can still buy "non-HE" detergents.

They just take some of the fillers out to make it "High Efficiency."

Pretty much every detergent these days is "HE" because it's cheaper to use less fillers. Why not use NO fillers? Detergents can be highly corrosive and the fillers help mitigate that.

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I never thought about that honestly. Just buy the shit that I can tolerate the smell. The laundry slave seems to be using borax power now, so there is that, and its likely not shit since the formula is said to be the same. Guess yeah, they dont have a smell like before, its just "clean" smell,

I do wish I had the one that has the reservoir, but then that won't work with the powder like the laundry slave moved to.

These machines are over 13 years old and keep working, I have replaced a door seal (not because it leaked but because it stained and looked like shit, and 2 water valves. )It has cost like $38 in water valves for both, and maybe 55 for that door seal.

Unless you get a Speed Queen, I don't see you would get this life out of any new machine. And never by a lucky goldstar or scamsung.

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Borax isn't really a cleaner, it's a water softener. But really...there's probably enough soap residue in your machine to last for quite a while.

Every so often, I'll run mine on the "baby wear" cycle. Put all the whites (towels, kitchen dishcloth, etc.) in, fill all the trays with bleach, and run. No detergent.