English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:30AM from the all-things-wifi-enabled dept.

All data specialist Mark Rittman wanted was a cup of tea from his all new Wi-Fi kettle. Little did he know that the thing would take 11 hours for that. The issue, in the case of Rittman was, that the base station was not able to communicate with the kettle itself. According to The Guardian: A key problem seemed to be that Rittman's kettle didn't come with software that would easily allow integration with other devices in his home, including Amazon Echo, which, like Apple's Siri, allows users to tell connected smart devices what to do. So Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself. Then, after 11 hours, a breakthrough: the kettle started responding to voice control.

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RFC2324 compliant? by eMilkshake · 2016-10-13 05:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

Does it correctly implement RFC2324 and respond 418 I'm a teapot when asked to brew coffee?
Re:More accurate headline? by geek · 2016-10-13 05:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

I kinda care. Its interesting to see the hacks people do to make things work. Granted this isn't as cool as making an iMac into a fish tank but still, kinda neat.