Arduino wifi on Hotpoint washing machine

[hotpointer]

Been playing around with a hotpoint wm
have removed all the hotpoint control pcb’s and replaced with a arduino board

https://youtu.be/ciQnYDm-r8E

all working ..machine works over wifi and will send push notifications when it starts ,finish and on error

[kwatt]

WEll done you and that can’t be any less reliable than what was there. 😉

K.

[hotpointer]

It took about 2 months … All the buttons on the front are now capacitance touch

I’ve only done errors for fill time and door open

couldn’t sort out the speed control so bought from Russia a speed control board based around tda1085c chip

which most machines used in the 80’s

it was harder than I thought

I will post a full video soon

[funkyboogy]

apart from alerting users on errors, i really dont see any need for wifi , just another sales gimmick the manufacturers are using to polish the proverbial t__d

if customers haven’t already realized they purchased a pile of poo — they now will be reminded via the app , just another conversation topic when dinning out im sure their friends will love it

– im guessing there will be some good to come out if wifi appliances — like a robot bringing me beer etc but until such times , im not buying it

ally

[kwatt]

Bet your board last longer than the rest of it. 😉

I take it you did all that just to see if it could be done?

K.

[hotpointer]

Yes it was just a bit of fun…
the problem is I now have a machine in the shed ….which I can’t bring myself to scrap
as it took a lot of hours to build

[hotpointer]

I also had another project which converted
all cold fill.washing machines back to hot and cold ….it works really well

https://youtu.be/LH-4ajQhpCg

[iadom]

However, modern biological detergents work properly when used with a cold fill. If you use them with hot water only for the wash cycle then the enzymes are killed off before they can do their work. 😉

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