{"id":4530,"date":"2020-08-27T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2020-08-27T18:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:07:32","slug":"decepticons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=4530","title":{"rendered":"Decepticons"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house? I looked her dead in the eye and said, “Decepticons”. She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or in this case, the dishwasher. It was doing strange things so I took out the controller PCB to look for dry joints, etc…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

What’s that at the top left? Looks like a PCB antenna?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It’s a CC2500<\/a> 2.4 GHz transceiver.<\/p>\n

OK, so some smeg products (this is a smeg LVS65W8A for the record) do have built-in transceivers. And there’s an app<\/a> (terrible, terrible app BTW) to let you control them — but it’s limited to ovens and wine coolers and this is neither.<\/p>\n

Maybe they use one controller for all their appliances, to reduce their inventory. But I’m not sure the reduced inventory cost would balance the increased BoM cost.<\/p>\n

Or maybe my dishwasher is spying on me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house? I looked her dead in the eye and said, “Decepticons”. She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time. Or in this case, the dishwasher. It was doing strange things so I took out the controller PCB to look for dry joints, etc… What’s that at the top left? Looks like a PCB antenna? It’s a CC2500 2.4 GHz transceiver. OK, so some smeg products (this is a smeg LVS65W8A for the record) do have built-in transceivers. And there’s an app (terrible,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-geek","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}