Smart Homes
Jan 25, 2022 0:56:41 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 0:56:41 GMT
I'm a late arrival but I'm really starting to get into it. But it is nto without trauma.
I have been sodding about for hours with this little smart home widget. It's really good, but a bit complicated. Essentially it's a WiFi controlled switch that one can wire into any circuit to give one voice control, via Alexa, of that circuit.
And it has been driving me utterly nuts. The manual was about the size of my thumbnail, the print is tiny and, of course, in foreign.
And every time I think I've got it sorted out it gives 4 beeps which according to the manual means it is defective. I have wired & rewired it, moved it, changed it, changed the house wiring all to no avail. It has brought me close to tears and I don't know how I have not smashed it into tiny little pieces.
I have cursed smart technology in general, this company in particular, and this device as the work of the devil. I have cursed Sodimac, Santiago, Chile, South America, Southern Hemisphere, the modern world, technology, the cats, the one daughter close enough, and everything and everyone else I can think of who is more likely to be at fault than I.
But whatever the hell I do this thing just goes into defect mode, the cursing and threatening simply hasn't helped. It is only my bloody minded determination not to be beaten by an inanimate object that has kept me going despite getting angry and wanting to give up and throw the whole lot in the bin.
But then...
It is just possible that I now need to eat some humble pie and find out how many Hail Marys it's going to take to redeem me in the eyes of God, various geographies and retailers, the cats and the rest of the known universe, and to prevent me from going to hell.
Because it has finally dawned on me that the correct translation of "modo defecto" is not in fact "defect mode", as I and any sensible person would think, it is actually "default mode" and the bloody thing has been working just fine all along.
Bugger.
FML (and the Spanish language)
I have been sodding about for hours with this little smart home widget. It's really good, but a bit complicated. Essentially it's a WiFi controlled switch that one can wire into any circuit to give one voice control, via Alexa, of that circuit.
And it has been driving me utterly nuts. The manual was about the size of my thumbnail, the print is tiny and, of course, in foreign.
And every time I think I've got it sorted out it gives 4 beeps which according to the manual means it is defective. I have wired & rewired it, moved it, changed it, changed the house wiring all to no avail. It has brought me close to tears and I don't know how I have not smashed it into tiny little pieces.
I have cursed smart technology in general, this company in particular, and this device as the work of the devil. I have cursed Sodimac, Santiago, Chile, South America, Southern Hemisphere, the modern world, technology, the cats, the one daughter close enough, and everything and everyone else I can think of who is more likely to be at fault than I.
But whatever the hell I do this thing just goes into defect mode, the cursing and threatening simply hasn't helped. It is only my bloody minded determination not to be beaten by an inanimate object that has kept me going despite getting angry and wanting to give up and throw the whole lot in the bin.
But then...
It is just possible that I now need to eat some humble pie and find out how many Hail Marys it's going to take to redeem me in the eyes of God, various geographies and retailers, the cats and the rest of the known universe, and to prevent me from going to hell.
Because it has finally dawned on me that the correct translation of "modo defecto" is not in fact "defect mode", as I and any sensible person would think, it is actually "default mode" and the bloody thing has been working just fine all along.
Bugger.
FML (and the Spanish language)