I think I need this in my life....

Fun fact. The first webcam was invented by Cambridge computer scientists, in 1991, who wanted to monitor the coffee machine which was in a kitchen a good few minutes walk from their lab.
 
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Stelly said:
I think I found my Christmas present from myself....

www.hackster.io

Brewing Coffee via GitHub

Matthew reverse engineers a DeLonghi Dinamica Plus BLE protocol so he can request coffee through GitHub.
www.hackster.io

Looks fun to mess around with
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The DeLonghi Dinamica Plus is supposed to connect to the companion smartphone app via BLE so users can brew a coffee remotely according to their preferences.

How can you brew a coffee "remotely"

I presume that you :-
a) need to have gone into the kitchen to switch on your DeLonghi coffee machine so it heats up (or maybe that is done on a timer?)
b) make sure it has milk, water and coffee in it
c) put a mug under the machine.

So the USP is that rather than just then pressing a button on the machine to make your coffee, you can wander out of the kitchen and control the machine via an app to tell it to make your coffee and then wander back into the kitchen to collect it?
I confess I'm getting on a bit so I'd be grateful if anyone could help me understand how this is is in anyway vaguely useful in the real-world.
 
Can’t comment on the DeLonghi but the one I have is Wi-Fi, you can power it on, select coffee and brew, if it’s milk based there is milk container, make sure the bean tray is stocked, although it tells you if not and just leave a mug or mugs in place.
 
gEd said:
The DeLonghi Dinamica Plus is supposed to connect to the companion smartphone app via BLE so users can brew a coffee remotely according to their preferences.

How can you brew a coffee "remotely"

I presume that you :-
a) need to have gone into the kitchen to switch on your DeLonghi coffee machine so it heats up (or maybe that is done on a timer?)
b) make sure it has milk, water and coffee in it
c) put a mug under the machine.

So the USP is that rather than just then pressing a button on the machine to make your coffee, you can wander out of the kitchen and control the machine via an app to tell it to make your coffee and then wander back into the kitchen to collect it?
I confess I'm getting on a bit so I'd be grateful if anyone could help me understand how this is is in anyway vaguely useful in the real-world.
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WFH so coffee machine is well maintained. Leave cup under coffee machine. Bouncing between calls but desperate for a coffee. Click button run and get it.

Help?
 
So if you'd pressed "make coffee" when you put the mug under the machine, you'd have a coffee in your hand ahead of your next call and wouldn't be "desperate" for one.
I presume that the machine makes a milk-based coffee in about 60-90 seconds so it seems like a lot of tech to save a couple of minutes at most.
 
gEd said:
So if you'd pressed "make coffee" when you put the mug under the machine, you'd have a coffee in your hand ahead of your next call and wouldn't be "desperate" for one.
I presume that the machine makes a milk-based coffee in about 60-90 seconds so it seems like a lot of tech to save a couple of minutes at most.
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I have a coffee at 0800 and another at 1000, so not really. They also make a load of noise which is annoying if you're on a call

Savings in the minutes is exceptional really given most automations are in the micro seconds lol.
 
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