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A comment on Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth. Parent comment

Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by kevviiinn on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:14PM (#35544215)
But it's trivial to have the app display a message "please connect to your WiFi network"
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Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by c0nsumer on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:16PM (#35544257)
What if the person has two networks at home? Or ends up on the neighbor's that they sometime use? Or their saved guest network? The user could well think "I am..." whether they are or aren't.

How would the phone know the /right/ network? All it can really know is it can't find the appliance.

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