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FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

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334 points Medusalix | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 13:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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any1 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.45955056[source]▶
This reminds me of my own troubles with my AEG washing machine.

Probably, the most important lesson (for someone who wants to fix their washing machine ASAP) that I learned from that was that there are non-userserviceable error codes and you need to perform an undocumented procedure on your machine to get those codes. I wrote about it in more detail here: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html

I would have loved to have an open source diagnostics dongle for my AEG. Maybe next time I'll try and make one. :)

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1. m463 ◴[18 Nov 25 00:40 UTC] No.45960122[source]▶
I hate that.

I had an old suv that would throw errors about the suspension.

Turns out there are lots of systems on a car that you can't diagnose with standard OBD2 readers. Same with transmission, etc.

As a matter of fact, don't know why all of this isn't easily available to the owner, not just a code, but a full message.