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by Dowwie
773 days ago
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What vendor and model water heater did you get? Useful smart features are of the variety that the manufacturer would never enable off the shelf, such as monitoring magnesium anode deterioration so that it could notify a user when it is time to replace the anode. It's against the interests of the manufacturer because replacing the anode extends the life of the heater. |
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Lots of interesting suggestions/applications in response to my initial comment. My local electric utility has a smart grid, but offers me as a consumer none of the so-far-listed reasons to connect to WiFi for electricity savings (e.g. no time of use metering)... but it would be cool if the anode deterioration could be monitored [I'll check the manual].