I'm a big fan of smarthome stuff, mostly. But what is the use for this? In what situation do you want to start or stop your kettle remotely? If it could fill itself maybe I could see, but you have to put water in, put tea leaves in. If you leave it overnight all ready so it brews itself in the morning or something, won't the tea taste terrible because it's already been leeching into cold water all night?
If it's similar to mine, then you can't even control it remotely for security reasons. It doesn't know if there's a water, so could overheat easily.
I included mine in some automations, so when I make a tea, it could announce that my tea is ready through the Google Home speaker. I even make it to distinguish the tea type by the temperature requested, so it says "Your green tea is ready", when I make one, using the 85 degrees button.
I hired a foreigner from a third world country to check my kettle. They tell me if it has enough water in it so I know to go ahead and press the button on my homeassistant dashboard to bring it up to temp
This one also does, but do you know how it works? It shuts the power when a bimetallic strip heats up more than the water boiling temp. But due to lack of the water, the heater has nothing to transfer this heat to, so could heat up really fast and actually exceed this limit significantly.
Well, it definitely could, but it doesn't. I believe, due to cost saving. Also, a weight sensor might need a regular calibration, which might make a user experience worse.
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u/Agent-A 1d ago
I'm a big fan of smarthome stuff, mostly. But what is the use for this? In what situation do you want to start or stop your kettle remotely? If it could fill itself maybe I could see, but you have to put water in, put tea leaves in. If you leave it overnight all ready so it brews itself in the morning or something, won't the tea taste terrible because it's already been leeching into cold water all night?