I saw a commercial for Delta faucets with some IntellivoiceIQ system whatever. People are talking to their plumbing? Your faucet is connected to the dubayu-dubayu-dubya via Bluetooth? Some guy in Pakistan needs to flush your toilet, or what?

Dave in his kitchen: "Ah, jeez, I got jalapeno pepper juice in my eyes! FAUCET, RUN COLD WATER, FULL!"

Faucet: "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

ROFL!

Everything is smart, everything is connected.

My neighbor just got some fancy schmancy new fridge that texts him if the door is left ajar.

What a wonderful gift idea! Does it work with toilets too?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
What a wonderful gift idea! Does it work with toilets too?

OMG... can you image this feature on a bidet? A little to the right please.
lololololololololololol

I remember about 10 years ago seeing a fridge at best buy that had a screen and touted an "internet connection". I wondered then (and still do) why we would want that.

I designed and programmed situation rooms for Homeland Security, Government Agencies and Silicon Valley Hi Tech firms.

In one of the first I did, the guy in charge asked me to put in automation.

So when I was showing him how to operate the system after it was done, I told him to hit play on the VCR.

When he did, the lights gradually dimmed down to theater level, the drapes slowly closed, the lift for the projector opened up and lowered the projector and the projector turned on, the projection screen lowered from the ceiling, then the VCR began to play. All within around 10 seconds or so.

I looked over at the guy in charge and he looked a little frightened and turns out he was. He asked me to take the automation out and I did.

I find the "smart" craze to be kind of dumb. There was a segment on This Old House showing smart light switches and talking about how they save energy. Great. A smart switch typically costs between $30-$50 vs $2 for a plain toggle. The old switch will probably outlast several generations of high tech as well. I doubt you come out ahead.

I for one, welcome our new faucet overlords.

A classic case of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should". Convention faucets (e.g. mechanical) are enough to maintain, and they are pretty simple. Now I have an electronic interface with more complexity than justified. To what advantage?

Hi, I am Mike, a luddite and a fud.

I guess it's too much work for some people to actually turn the faucet on the old fashioned way.

They want to stick an IP into your clothes washer, fridge, any appliance. Doesn't surprise me they want to add bluetooth to a faucet. It's a marketing gimmick.

Two things I want an IP based system. HVAC, and my got damn water heater. Some little sensor in the pan of my water heater that sends me a push notification, email, txt message, don't care, anything to turn it off before it busts and floods the house.

There is not an automated device in this house. No light switches, thermostats, door bells, alexa BS or anything else connected to the internet.

Don't need it, don't want it and don't have a use for it.

And what happens during a power outage, of if the google/amazon network wants to take a day off to plot our demise goes down?

I did speak to a guy with almost total blindness who lives alone. He said using Alexa to turn on the stove beats going next door and asking the kid to do it for him. Automation has its place, just not in my house.

Same here. The most automated thing in my house is a light on a dumb timer.
I'm not having Google or Amazon listeners in my house.

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There is not an automated device in this house. No light switches, thermostats, door bells, alexa BS or anything else connected to the internet.

Don't need it, don't want it and don't have a use for it.

Same here!

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They want to stick an IP into your clothes washer, fridge, any appliance.

Some of those aren't as silly as one might think. Clothes washer and clothes dryer, for example. If you're doing several loads of wash, and they're on the other side of the home, it might be handy to know when they're done. Esp. the dryer if you've a load in there you don't dry all the way before hanging. Getting to it right away when it stops tumbling is important--unless you actually like wrinkled clothes.

Our new stove can be WiFi-connected. It can tell you things like when a timed oven event is complete. Not so necessary on the old stove, because it had a really loud beeper. The new stove's beeper is so soft you might not hear it just around the corner if the TV's turned up too loud. (I haven't gotten around to playing with its WiFi and app, yet.)

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
Two things I want an IP based system. HVAC, ...

Y'see: That's one thing in which I have little to no interest in networking. We have a programmable thermostat. 99-44/100% of the time it's right where we want it. On the rare occasions it's not, it's no big deal to get up and nudge it.

I can't, for the life of me, imagine the point of a networked water faucet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LOL...who would have thought. Makes you wonder if it is just a matter of time before this scenario is a reality:

Dave somewhere in house: "Gun, shoot intruder!" (assuming Dave has to say anything at all)