This is 1st time hearing about ZigBee and Z-wave. How would they work with existing electronics?

They would need to double the costs to accommodate both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz bands if they choose the latter for backwards compatibility with electronics.

I read your smart-plug bit. But, even that’s not necessary to achieve most of it since its built-in modern day washing machines.

I made that comment to highlight to others and for information purpose like yours was as a reply to “why would it connect to WiFi?” .

All the things that you mentioned are already possible and have been since a decade or before.

• It can tell you it’s done, so you notice the notification after a couple hours instead of finding musky clothes a day or two later

There’s an estimate and a timer and the machine let’s you know when its done. This is a 2014 model to say the age.

• It can tell you it’s time to do the self-cleaning cycle

This is also something that is already automated and the machine does itself and can do manually if you ask.

• If you’re doing something unusual, like washing reusable diapers which need extra rinse cycles, you can upload a custom program for that to the washer

You can add extra Rinse cycles for specific clothes and have custom programs too.

• Even more unusual, someone had stacked units and was too short to reach the buttons on the washer, so they liked to start it via the app instead of getting a stool

The controls being an inconvenience I can give you that. But, barring that its not stone age you would think it to be.

Fully automatic machines without WiFi work fine and don’t need any software updates to begin with.

I would argue Bull fighting which is much more cruel and inhumane.

George Orwell in 1984.

Currently, I see 3 IPTV apps on fdroid. IPTV Player, FastoTVLite, and Digilog TV. I remember trying the last 2 a long time ago.

This is diluting the Foss moment more than others. GPL and AGPL are more than sufficient in my opinion.