The WiFi Coffee Machine - Review
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Instead of going to a coffee house to use their WiFi, why not let a Coffee machine use your home WiFi ...or something like that. You can see the product and look at alternative reviews on Amazon UK amzn.to/1HZgkox (CLICK SHOW MORE)
The coffee machine I'll continue using instead is a Senseo Sarista. It may be discontinued - but still available on ebay here: goo.gl/ewujtJ It used to require pre-filled coffee bean funnels, but Philips discontinued these and sold a refillable one instead that you put your own beans into. My old video about it is here: • Senseo Sarista Coffee ... and despite most of the comments and reviews doubting its reliability...it's still working fine almost 3 years later.
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Some people seem to be getting a bit vexed and indignant in the comments. Please don't get all hot and bothered - it's just a little video about a coffee machine. Just intended to be a bit of entertainment for 10 mins. Perhaps time to cut back on the coffee.
No matter the subject i love all your videos even if its not a product i'm interested in - keep up the good work - you deserve your own tv slot 👍🏻
+shortyian Just echoing shortyian's statement.
+North American UA-camr Techfun was taken.
+Techmoan ba dum tissss
+Techmoan I know, eh? Why do people have to be so rude? Do they put drugs in their coffee which causes them to spread rudeness on UA-cam?
Version 2.0 Features:
-Share with your friends on Facebook whenever you make a coffee!
-A microphone that listens all the time for a command to instantly make coffee (needs internet connection)
-A camera for some reason
-Comes with special smart watch, allows you to start making coffee from your watch, needs to be charged every 12 hours
(Machine requires latest firmware and be logged onto the Coffee Network to function)
It's the Ruskies! They're out to get us!
@@kyaing9047 lol
Mark Reptiloid haunts us russians!
Also, because we need to save on production cost, the display and three of the buttons have been removed. The remaining button has been delegated to take a selfie with your coffee instead of anything useful.
@Psycho Mantis Report them, it's all we can do until they pop up on a fresh account to swindle gullible fools on a fresh account.
"AYO IM MAKIN A COFFEE HERE"
I have a feeling that the people in charge of the company making it were one of those buzzword spewing hip corporate types that are completly detached from reality, and were promoted from the marketing department. Or maybe sales. I can imagine the meetings with the engineers now.
"Hey, can you get it done in two months?"
Engineer: "We wouldn't have time to do any testing, and we are already having issues with some our suppliers. We mig---"
"So yes?"
Engineer: "Maybe, if there are no unexpec-"
"Good."
Later:
Engineer: "The tooling for the lid is behind schedule, and the app isn't done either. We had to push it back for-"
"Well, does it technically need a lid?"
Engineer: "Well it works without it, but-"
"Ok, then we will ship without a lid and sell it as an extra later. And get the app done by Friday."
lobsterbark
This is exactly what happened.
Sales: "when is the earliest you can have the prototype finished?"
Engineer:" Issues should be resolved by the end of the week..."
Sales:" Great. We will send it to manufacturing by wednesday then, in 2 days."
Engineering:" But, that wont leave enough time to..."
Sales/CEO" You aren't going to give us any problems with this, are you, engineer?"
Engineer:"Um no, but...."
Sales/CEO:"No but's, just do your jobs. This is settled then. Meeting is adjourned!"
The company's head managment is the marketing department.
@lobsterbark: sounds like you work for the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert's company! Or are you just Scott Adams incognito? ;-)
I love your honest reviews...This things a wreck.
stonedcommander don't spoil the video! Don't tell me the outcome! Haha 🍄💋🍄💋
After the announcement, the development of the wifi coffee maker completely ground to a halt. Unfortunately the news filtered through, as the company failed to put a lid on it.
custardo no
Still, boiling hot rumors of a rebrew of the machine's design continue to percolate through the Internet to this day
This idea is stale. I think its time to throw out the dregs and start fresh.
Dispatch was a bit latte, making a mocha-ry of the promised early date! But now it's bean delivered, fortunately!
Error: Cannot Process Pun
That build looks almost identical to my Andrew James coffee maker, (which does come with a lid)
Mine doesn't have the wifi stuff though. But if you call their customer services, they sell replacement parts to their products, so you might get a lid from them.
I know im asking the wrong place but does any of you know of a method to get back into an Instagram account?
I somehow forgot my account password. I appreciate any help you can offer me!
Lmao what?
In the interests of fairness, I should re-iterate that my machine is clearly faulty as far as the No Carafe error....and perhaps I should have realised that this was just a grind and brew machine - rather than a fully automatic machine. If you are satisfied with the idea of a Grind and Brew Coffee machine that can be operated via WiFi, then you might be more happy with this machine than I was.
+Techmoan Hey Techmoan, did you send your machine back for a replacement because it was defective and did you get a lid for it. By the way, I love your videos. Oh yeah, are you from England, if so, that's cool, My brother just married a gal from there and now he lives there. I haven't got a chance to talk to him, but I think he likes it over there. I'm originally from Georgia (USA) I live in Colorado and have lived here for a little over 20 years now. I love it here. OK, I've said enough for a comment. LOL Have a great day Techmoan and keep those videos coming! :-)
+LENOVOVO LOL, this comment does not have anything to do with the video :D
+Techmoan Matt I am sure you paid some hard earned dollar for this machine and yes you should expect it to work without the need for duct tape.
+Techmoan You still have that big ole sledge hammer?
+Master Po Very tempted.
This is a solid violation of the 'toasters don't need computers' principle.
Has Red Dwarf taught us nothing...
@@eurovision50 The question is this: Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?
@@BridAnderson 😂😂😂
I saw a webcomic about this back in 2000. An office coffee maker broke due to overuse so the office genius was expected to fix it. He did...too well actually because it became sentient. The side effect was whenever the team played a LAN pc game they saw an extra player named java junkie. The office genius had included some PC components, including a modem, during the repair process.
Really miss that comic.
Do you remember the name of that webcómic?
@@carlospc866 angst technology
@@Maniac536 Thank you!
I think you have grounds for a complaint...
+321bytor you see now *that's* a great pun.
Especially considering the latte delivery.
Awesome puns lmao.
Complete halfassery. Classic case of rushing to market with little testing and the lack of a lid for the beans is two thumbs down.
Nope. Classic case of morons thinking a wifi enabled coffee machine might be useful.
@@tomf3150 So you think having a coffee brewed for you when you're busy doing other stuff is stupid?
@@vitalik38815 In this case it is stupid. This is a coffee maker that must be cleaned after each use and has an open air hopper to source the beans from. It is hardly a device that can be left on its own and expect to make coffee at any given point in time. With all the maintenance that has to be done directly, why not just press the button on the machine.
@@davidmcgill1000 I agree, this one is crap
@@vitalik38815 However, the THEORY is not all that bad. Just need to add the 'wifi' capability to a typical auto coffee maker. (The only option missing on my DeLonghi Magnifica!)
Can you not send it back? They send you a faulty machine, and their advertisements are clearly false advertising due to the cup being placed there despite it not being able to fill just a cup. It's their fault, not yours, and you should have the right to return it.
Looking on the bright side, buying occasional duff stuff, makes you appreciate the good stuff.
As always thanks for posting.
+MrAtheHun Yes, not every gadget can be a winner.
+Techmoan Could of bean better.. :)
+Graham R hahahahaha
The software of this thing was clearly made with JavaBeans. Thanks. I'm here all week.
+custardo I give your joke test a C, you know what, I'm gonna be nice today, have a C++.
That joke truly is a perl of comedy.
***** Okay stop with these Batch of jokes.
+PianoVideosJustForU (PVJFU) Sorry I didn't quite get what you said there, it could be because you Lisp
***** Okay, I see your Visual, very Basic.net
I'm so glad you reviewed this, because I was eyeing this unit up as a Christmas present for myself. Having seen the issues that you've had with it, I think I'll pass on it now!
Reasonable idea, poor execution. Putting the cup under it rather than a carafe is misleading advertising. I believe you would say in England, "That's one for the bin."
Is it Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol(HTCPCP) (RFC 2324 & RFC 7168) compliant? if not they need to catch up to industry standards! Its been specified since '98! heh
Well today I learned what a karafe is.
+randomizednamme same here
There's no such thing. I just searched the Internet for 'karafe definition' and got zero results.
In the US most people call them a coffee pot, although sometimes they are referred to as a "decanter".
Doktor McNasty try carafe 😎
We call it a carafe in the US as well. Mostly a "pot".
Well, I do have to ask ... since this is the first IP-enabled coffee-pot I've seen ... do you suppose it supports RFC 2324? (that's HTCPCP, the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.)
That protocol spec was an April-Fools joke, but, it truly does exist... -and as such, is the origin of the infamous and otherwise-very-mysterious Web server error code HTTP 418 ("I'm a teapot.")
bzert281 If someone doesn't make an IoT teapot that returns that error if you tell it to brew coffee, then I will be disappointed.
Error 420 is "no carafe"
I can't believe that it's an actual RFC! What a laugh!! 🤣 www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
@@lordpagano Thank you for sharing this link! I just read the whole thing, and got a few genuine chuckles out of it.
I like how fact-based this review is. You're not just stating what you like and don't like about this product, but you show what you were lead to expect according to the info you had whilst ordering, and what you received instead in the box. Keep up the good work.
Wow, I hope they're out of business.
I really thank you Techmoan for doing actual, honest reviews. Many videos are paid for by the manufacturer and they're nothing but tongue baths. You can always tell those by how much attention they give to the box. You tore this thing a much deserved new one, and it was utterly fun.
Tongue baths
Hey Techmoan.
Great video, but sadly not a coffeemachine I can recommend. I have recently thrown the former model without wifi out. Besides the electronic circuits it's the same machine, and it isn't very good. First of all when you use the grinder, the coffee gets way to strong, even when you set it to mild. And it only lives till the second the warranty is gone. Other people I know who bought it after I did, have had the same experience. Therefore be sure to keep the receipt, and pray that it dies before the warranty runs out. Then there's a chance that it will work a bit longer, or you get your money back.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all hot or bothered. I find your videos cool and informative, including this one. I just think it's fair to warn about the quality of this machine, which only shows over time.
May you have an awesome Christmas.
Best wishes.
Soundrookie.
+TheSoundrookie this one went back for a refund straight after making the video.
A wise decision.
+Techmoan surprised they take refunds. Thanks for the review, but what garbage. Thanks for taking the consumer bullet
NO CARAFE
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
As always, a great review. What disappoints me more than anything about the world in which we live in today is the appalling quality of consumer goods. Just ten years ago I bought a Krups espresso machine for about £80 and it was superbly made - in Germany - with steel components and high quality plastic. I am still using it. Nowadays everything is junk. Stuff looks shiny in the stores but none of it lasts more than 3 months.
Even the steel in our cars is being imported from China. We make hardly anything any more and have to put up with worthless junk instead due to corporate greed. An iPhone costs just £5 to assemble in a Chinese sweatshop...and how much are they retailing for?
in buying this i think you just paid for them to finish their prototype!
You tell people in the most polite way when things are a total waste of money 😂
The challenges of early adopters. And being baited-and-switched. And the switch doesn't even work. You poor sod.
Just baited, then.
I must say, sorry to comment on an old video but I just got this model for Christmas and they have improved a lot! I love it! I greatly enjoyed your video a I do all your videos! Thank you and keep up the great work!
How much have they improved this coffee machine?
I showed your video to my wife. She was going to buy me one for xmas! Not any more.. Thanks for your excellent you tube channel. :)
Not that I would buy something like it but its great to have you making videos on these odd devices. I particularly enjoy how to point out the design flaws :D
Bravo! Another well made episode Matt! Before I watched this I was considering sending empty bottles of Jim Beam and Crown royal with assorted beer empties to my former dispatchers but alas a broken used wifi coffee maker may just be the ticket! I images of rotten Harrisburg, pa dispatchers setting up a used broken coffee maker would be a step down from the cauldron they use now. As always Cheers
only found ya page ... but yeah loving the real world honesty, overviews and the actual input/outputs of the workings of products !! ... also noticed the app never notified you of the "no carafe" error either :( ...
althou the no duct take "mod" does allow you to put your mug under for a direct brew !!
so maybe its a kinda deliberate fault !!! and why they had a mug in shot :)
Wow! Sad to see such a cool idea go bad. Best part probably was the part where the app tells ya the coffee is made. Other than that, I would just get the CuisineArt version of this guy and call it a day. Hopefully cheaper, and will still work 3 years later. Keep up the fun vids!
The irony of the brand "Smarter" hehe, looking forward to the sledgehammer follow up! :) Thank you for the chuckle, liked the Senseo, may get one.
That's not irony. If you were "smarter", you would get the Senseo, which makes "sense".
Besides, who cares for apps on phones. I want appliances with a ROS interface.
Techmoan is finally Techmoaning!
"Hi Mat, your coffee is ready!" I mean ... another great review! :)
Nice video Matt. The product itself seems to be a solution looking for a problem. No-one is going to use Wi-Fi to start the machine while they are a long way from home and the time it seems to take to switch it on from your phone is so long that you would have walked into the kitchen and switched it on manually in half the time. AND checked there really was a carafe in place. LOL
So is this the one/one of the ones that does your wifi password in plaintext or something and is a massive security hole?
Hi techmoan there is one on Amazon that is similar but has a cover for the beans looks good but liked the one you have that discards the used bean grindes
I can't help but think of that WiFi toilet skit whenever you do wireless gadgets. I know you can tell if this works but it still makes me chuckle.
I hope you saved your receipt. One has a right to expect superfluous technology to at least work properly. And come with all the parts.
+Bob Woolcock Of course, at best it would only save you walking 20 feet to turn it on manually...
Good review! I'm sticking with my manual burr grinder and aeropress though.
I got a mocca master. A very simple and old machine. Nowadays I got a newer one however when I moved on my own at age 17 I got this old one from my grandparents. The bloody machine was older than me. But still worked perfectly!
That's why rather often I like simple things more than fancy stuff with all sorts of gadgets on it.
Excellent review. Only you could make me what to buy something I don't want or need! Great stuff!
So with the “home” option on would it automatically make a cup of coffee every single time I turned my WiFi on and back on again?
Hey mat did you every return this thing seeing as how it wasn't working properly when it was delivered
I'm still unclear whether this shoots 60fps in 1080p, or if it's suitable for recording street musicians.
Glad to hear you have your sense of taste back! :)
@Techmoan if you're listening, I was wondering if your sense of taste was still in tact when you made this video? Do you still drink coffee?
thanks for sharing great experience! the voice over sound has changed a lot, off to see if you switched to new stuff
I'd been looking at this and a couple of other Wi-Fi/Smart Coffee Machines but was dubious about them. I got burnt by the whole Kreyos Smart Watch thing and have been more pessimistic about new things ever since. Your video confirms my worries and helps saves me money for now. I thought it would take care of the grinds too.
+Thomas Thorne I'm glad you thought it would dispose of the grinds too. I was beginning to think I was delusional to assume that. In my opinion, a coffee machine that needs to be cleaned out after making one cup is neither use nor ornament.
I know many fancy machines do need a manual clean as the automated ones leave a small amount behind that can taint the coffee. That being said I'd also expect this to be aimed more at lazy people who like gadgets than people who have a highly developed traste for coffee. I'll be holding out for an automated one or adding a Wi-Fi controlled socket to my old coffee machine for more.
Hi Techmoan, is the taste of coffee something like old turkish coffee? Strong variant of coffee of course. Thanks in advance
I still can't understand why the heck would you want your machine to brew a cup of coffee every time you get inside (or your phone finds your wifi). If I sit on my toilet and have my phone too close to the sink my wifi will go off (even though I have a powerful router. It might be the large mirror I have...). so I would get a cup of coffee every time I went to the toilet with my phone. Also, if I go take the trash out... wifi will go out (I live on the 8th floor). It doesn't make sense.
This machine is just stupid. It is clearly badly made and it seems to me that nobody cared to test the app.
Whenever I hear "wifi" and "coffee machine" I think of G-Force😂
I checked it on Amazon
Apparently the lid's there now!
Not the product product from the link though
thanks for a great review, you save me a pile of frustrations
It doesn't seem to grind the beans very well, theres a shot where you can see some of the grounds have gotten into the coffee.
Did you contact them to have them fix the broken carafe detector and to send you a lid?
Never realised Techmoan did a review of this untill i seen today. I have same version I belive, you can turn the carafe detect off (but you have to enable one cup) as well in the smart app not sure if this was the case with the orginal version of the app. My problem was I dropped the carafe out of the box so.. until i figured that out it was a paperweight.. and yes mine came with a cover for the beans..
Since you like gadgets when it comes to coffee, consider the Aeropress. Designed in burger land, and creates one of the smoothest coffees I've ever had, its also is less acidic, so people with acidity problems can have coffee again. It's a bit of work, granted, but it's worth it.
It's relatively cheap, too.
2ft cord- kitchen appliances (at least in US) have short cords, so they are not dangling around the kitchen counter and causing safety issues. I heard from an electrician that outlets are required to be no more than 4 ft apart (or something like that) in kitchens- hence 2ft cords.
This would be the perfect coffee maker for me in the morning if it had worked properly.. are there any alternatives? :)
Just to clarify - mine came with a lid... also it does do single cup as well as a carafe, there are instructions in the manual that tell you to remove the bit by the carafe with the spring and then in the app - set it to single cup mode and voila!
Hi Matt, re microswitch issue, can't quite tell from the video but the filter appears to have a plastic tab on one side, just wondered if that sticky out tab bit needs to on the microswitch side? does the filter fit the other way around perhaps?
+Fpv Jersey This was asked a few comments back....
The filter only fits one way around. The lip is a piece of plastic designed to enable you to grasp the filter and remove it from the inside of the filter holder. It is not there to press anything. If the filter was able to be reversed - the protruding plastic lip is quite some distance away from the button and the door is also unable to shut. (3).
Appreciate the sarcasm in this video. :D
Can't you return the device and get your money back or at least get a machine that doesn't have the Carafe error?
Have you done a video on Teasmades? I heard about them from a friend in the UK who loves hers, and I'd really like to see how they work (inside and out, if possible).
Your name is Mat?
I’ve been subbed to your channel for years and have yet to know that.
I bought the very same machine like 5 years ago, just without the wifi nonsense. Mine DID come with a lid and actually holds up fine.
Hamilton Beach 2-way (49980A). Carafe on the right, single serve on the left, clock and alarm to be ignored, reusable filter. Brilliant! No computer to fuss with.
You know you’re in trouble when a product promised in a few weeks arrives 8 month late. You get something that is rushed thru; acceptance standards are relaxed, it is poorly tested, the product is incomplete. Thanks for the review.
Great video as always! Looking at your Senseo Sarista machine, why did they discontinue such a machine ? It's exactly what I want... If they made that with Wifi and all that jazz it would be great!
The fact that you need to clean the stuff out each time kind of defeats the point of this thing. Like a single shot rifle having to reload it each time. Not for me.
Thanks for the great work!
So how long does it take to download a normal cup of coffee?
Love your videos ! Very professional !
Hey Techmoan. I know this is unrelated but I was wondering, how has it been using the gtech multi vacuum for about a year now? Have you run into any problems or does it still work fine? I was just wondering because I thinking about getting one.
+Forrester No problems with the Gtech AirRam absolutely love it - bought one for my dad and he loves his too.- It would be useful to have a spare filter set so one can dry out after washing whilst I'm using the other one...but they come with a spare set now when you register it to instead of the (useless) USB cable. I've changed my opinion on the handheld one though. Not enough sucking power and too hard to keep the on button held down all the time.
it would be nice if you could also control this from a webapp (well if it actually worked properly in the first place), similar to my thermostat, i have it bookmarked so i can just quickly adjust my temps when i'm sat in front of my computer. i can't be fussed to find my phone all the time, ha.
I noticed when you put the carafe on while the backlight of the LCD display was off (the one time when the machine saw the carafe without help from the sticky tape), the light came on. I guess they thought that was enough to tell you you "hit the spot"...
You want coffee? hold up, let me connect my machine to the internet so that a Chinese botnet gets installed on it
Can I just point something out? When you placed the Carafe (jug) in to the coffee maker you had the handle on the right hand side then the message No Carafe disappeared. Around 4:20.
+Neil Donnellan it's all attached to a rotatable circular point at the top...orientation doesn't affect things.
how well do coffee machines make 2 minute noodles?
Notice how they changed the name font from the prototype to the final version, maybe they had arguments with Smart (cars)?
How does this work with Amazon Echo? Thanks
does the coffee machine need the WiFi in order to link the smart phone to the unit? it's a bit upsetting if you don't always have your WiFi turned on... is there such a device that can link up to your phone without the WiFi? why not a Bluetooth connection?
having an app is very useful , i think a kettle and microwave should have an app
I preffer a manual expresso machine! but, hey, if it works for you...!
Great videos btw!
But the bigger question is where can I buy a Philips Senseo Sarista?
My old fashioned dumb drip coffee maker had one of those vertical spring loaded switches which instead of presing a sensor, presses up on a circular piece of plastic situated at the bottom of the filter holder which opens up holes for the coffee liquid to drain into the carafe. If the carafe was placed normally, insufficient contact was made and the drainage holes would remain uncovered meaning the liquid would stay in the filter and would overflow making a holy mess of everything. The carafe had to be angled up slightly using the rim around the hot plate as a platform. How this design flaw made it onto a smart coffee machine years later is one of those mysteries.
I think I will keep my Bunn-O-Matic VP-17 2 machine. Simple, reliable, and fully serviceable. I did appreciate the honest review, but I want my wi-fi kept far away from my coffee brewers.
Since they can make this machine and have it sort of work, what I'd like to see now is a wifi electric kettle.
Having typed that I did a quick search to find that such a product does exist. In fact its made by the same company that made this coffee machine. Like this machine, the kettle has some issues of its own according to reviews and the 3/5 amazon rating.
Instructions unclear, coffee grinds all over my dash, coffee stains splashed all over my steering wheel and seats.
Possible carafe error fix: There's a bit of plastic on the filter insert, that's only on one side. So, turn the filter holder 180 dgrees, so the plastic tab is under the button?
I might be really dense though..
+devjock This was asked a few comments back....
The filter only fits one way around. The lip is a piece of plastic designed to enable you to grasp the filter and remove it from the inside of the filter holder. It is not there to press anything. If the filter was able to be reversed - the protruding plastic lip is quite some distance away from the button and the door is also unable to shut. (4).
Yeah I'm facepalming right now. Didn't click "newest first" when browsing the comments, so I probably missed it.
So yeah, it seems I'm really dense.
Thanks for the honest review !!
I think I know what went wrong. First time you closed the lid with the carafe in. This made that spring push the filter assembly up while the lid was closing and jamming the thing. Second time it worked because you closed the lid without the carafe in.
Capsule summary: "It's a bit crap, innit?"
In general people doesn't admit that they made a bad and expensive purchase to not to look stupid(!) but you can and thats why I like your videos, keep them coming and if you can, get rid of this bad product for your own good, it may drive you crazy. This product reminded me failed kickstarter campaigns.
+Murat Isgoren I'm as likely as the next chap (if not more so) to make a cock-up. As long as everyone doesn't pile on, then I'm always happy to share my errors. 2015 was the year that I officially got over Kickstarter....so many disappointments. I thought it would be a way to get hold of some weird things that people might not have seen....but everything that has (eventually) arrived tuned out to not really be worth making a video about in the end.
wait, how do u know what the coffee tastes like?
The strength selection on the app should just be a single 3-way toggle button, not 3 tiny buttons in one.
15 bucks for a machine with a timer. Set it and go to bed. This is needless, however, a cool video.
you have any other product that does wifi ? at a similar price range ?
smarter has a huge advantage as they provide a API documentary, so it can be very easy integrated into existing systems .. like home automation, which gives the machine a great point of sale, all other i have seen are closed loops, making the whole wifi thing pretty much useless ..
Even if it was functioning perfectly, which it's not, it seems like kind of a device solving not much of a problem to begin with. I can't imagine being really glad I had a WiFi coffee maker.