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> English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
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> Mark Rittman set about trying to make a cup of tea at 9am but night had fallen by the time his new Wi-Fi enabled kettle could complete the task. Photograph: Alamy
> All Mark Rittman <https://twitter.com/markrittman> wanted was a cup of tea. Little did he know he would have to spend 11 hours waiting for his new hi-tech kettle <https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/17/kitchen-gadgets-review-ikettle-boil-phone> to boil the water.
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> Rittman, a data specialist who lives in Hove, England, set about trying to make a cup of tea around 9am. But thanks to his Wi-Fi <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/wifi> enabled kettle it wasn’t long before he ran into trouble.
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> Still haven't had a first cup of tea this morning, debugging the kettle and now iWifi base-station has reset. Boiling water in saucepan now.
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 3:56 AM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785751015517814784> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> Three hours later the kettle was still having problems. The main issue seemed to be that the base station was not able to communicate with the kettle itself.
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> 3 hrs later and still no tea. Mandatory recalibration caused wifi base-station reset, now port-scanning network to find where kettle is now.
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 4:46 AM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785763443185942529> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> News of Rittman’s plight quickly spread on Twitter, further slowing his progress.
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> Now the Hadoop cluster in garage is going nuts due to RT to @internetofshit <https://twitter.com/internetofshit>, saturating network + blocking MQTT integration with Amazon Echo
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 5:32 AM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785775059575136256> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> Still the kettle refused to play ball.
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> Now my wifi kettle is basically taking the p*ss. Told me it had found network, now you need to recalibrate me, oh btw I didn't rly connect
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 6:10 AM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785784519051837444> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> A key problem seemed to be that Rittman’s kettle didn’t come with software that would easily allow integration with other devices in his home, including Amazon Echo, which, like Apple’s Siri, allows users to tell connected smart devices what to do.
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> So Rittman was trying to build the integration functionality himself.
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> It is, and OK apart from flaky WiFi connectivity; main issue is that there's no IFTTT or HomeKit integration, so hacked that together myself https://twitter.com/johnburton/status/785765022198861824 … <https://t.co/0IjD7q4wzM>— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 1:23 PM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785893624672387073> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> Then, after 11 hours, a breakthrough: the kettle started responding to voice control.
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> Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 2:10 PM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785905327967498240> · Hove, England, United Kingdom <https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A42e88d76579c3d91>
> And finally – success!
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> My work is done. And now onto everything else I meant to do today, after that first cup of tea.
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> — Mark Rittman (@markrittman) 7:11 PM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/785981145007714304>
> Although some people following Rittman’s progress – justifiably – wondered what was wrong with the old technology.
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> @markrittman <https://twitter.com/markrittman> why don't you just get normal fucking kettle
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> — ready 4 december (@onekade) 9:46 AM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/onekade/status/785838900703006720>
> @markrittman <https://twitter.com/markrittman> At this point, I'm desperate to avoid this future at all costs.
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> — Michael Laccetti (@mlaccetti) 2:15 PM - 11 Oct 2016 <https://twitter.com/mlaccetti/status/785906771156238341>