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No Connection, No Flush (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This makes zero sense. If it's clogged, you'd know beforehand when you look in the bowl. Why the would anyone need a notification for that?

The ONLY utility that I could see here is if the notification logged who did the clogging so you could give them shit.

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

    Toilets can appear to have flushed fully, but still have...material...stuck in the U-bend that hasn't completely evacuated the toilet. A subsequent flush won't work, even though the water in the bowl is clean.

    Ask me how I know.

    That said, this could almost certainly be better-solved in other ways. Maybe by preventing the tank from refilling if there's still something in the u-bend (then you'd know it needed attention because there'd be no water in it)?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
    1. We don't know that the toilet has this sensing capability.
    2. If it does, the actual fix is the same as if it were a regular toilet.

    This just isn't an issue that needs technology as a solution.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    125% agreed. I was responding only to "If it's clogged, you'd know beforehand when you look in the bowl." I think there's potentially an engineering solution--a fluid dynamics engineering solution--but definitely not an app.

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