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[+] 100 points 1 year ago (20 children)
  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Right? I buy only open-source wifi toothbrushes. Still waiting on the year of the Linux toothbrush, tbh

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If it’s anything like mine, it works just fine without the app. The app just does brush tracking and shit. I don’t need any of that, so I never set it up. But I suspect even if I had, it would still let me use it without being logged into the app.

    I suspect the same is true here. That the function of the toothbrush is available regardless of whether it’s logging data to your phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The function is available for now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I cannot imagine the value to the company from whatever usage data they get from their toothbrushing app is anything close to the value they get from selling brush heads. So it would be immensely foolish to lock down the toothbrush.

    The app is a selling point, and they do it because others do. Without it, they’d lose the portion of the market that wants to track which parts of their mouth they’ve brushed properly to their competitors. But that isn’t their main market, and they’d be idiots to kill their product chasing that niche.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    But.. how else am I going to connect my toothbrush to my smarthome..?

    Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don't need to be logged in.

    I agree. It's super dumb to buy IOT toothbrushes that require you to be logged in. Luckily I'm not one of those people, so that doesn't apply to me. Phew..

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just kidding, I use home assistant and my oral-b toothbrush broadcasts using BLE, which Is capture using the oral-b integration. You don’t need to be logged in.

    Oh god I hope this is sarcasm. I'm good with my old, dumb oral-b that does nothing but brush my fucking teeth.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I imagine getting a notification on their phone reminding them if they've not brushed their teeth by a set time might help forgetful people to remember to brush their teeth, and if it's via Home Assistant, which is self-hosted, entirely local, and open-source, there's no downside other than having to set it up in the first place.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The oral-b integration has been installed by 13,611 users.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My BLE proxies keep picking up my neighbor's toothbrush. I was briefly tempted to install the integration just to see what would happen. I didn't because that's creepy, but just... what a weird world we live in.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    How’s your low-level programming ability?

    I bet you could update its firmware to one you write.

    Ever use one of those kid toothbrushes that plays a song by vibrating your skull? You could do that live from a microphone.

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