Gizmodo has an amazing writeup which was courtesy of The Guardian on Data specialist Mark Rittman and his struggle to make tea. He started around 9:00AM, but found himself in an eleven hour saga trying to get his wi-fi tea kettle to work.
The Kettle in question appears to be the Smart.er iKettle 2.0, available on Amazon for $158.
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. pic.twitter.com/lC3uNX5WTp
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
3 hrs later and still no tea. Mandatory recalibration caused wifi base-station reset, now port-scanning network to find where kettle is now. pic.twitter.com/TRQLuLzLpx
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
Now the Hadoop cluster in garage is going nuts due to RT to @internetofshit, saturating network + blocking MQTT integration with Amazon Echo pic.twitter.com/ryd42c5ewj
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
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 pic.twitter.com/yPTDoUkM9Z
— Mark Rittman (@markrittman) October 11, 2016
Rittman literally had to hack his kettle in order for the water to get boiled… 11 hours later.
This should be a constant reminder about smaller companies and their reliance on building out their own server and app infrastructure.