[mhh__]

Why? If it didn't belong to my landlord I could've made it scriptable in a few hours with one of a litany of wifi-enabled chips I have on my desk.

I'm a professional programming language implementer why can't I use those skills to do as I please?

[slver]

You're really dedicated to this scriptable washing machine project. You should talk to your landlord.

[mhh__]

You're really dedicated to being needlessly argumentative.

Wrt to your previous comment, of course I'm talking about my model of washing machine.

I genuinely cannot fathom how it's hard to work out that my point is that if they'd stuck even the most basic interface on the back, which I bet the higher end ones already have for debugging just not exposed, I could make the machine do what I want. That's not the way the world is, but it would be better if it was.

Luckily for you I'm able bodied by the way...

[slver]

In software you should be familiar that exposing a debugging interface can be a 10 minute job. Exposing a public service can be a 3 month job. And not just for developers, but also for documentation writers, marketing, legal, and so on.

If you're an expert, then you can hack with the debug interface, many enthusiasts do things like that with their devices.

And if you're not an expert, you don't want, you can't, and you'd never need to script your washing machine.