“To use the app, you have to connect your dishwasher to WiFi, set up a cloud account in something called Home Connect, and then, and only then, can you start using all the features on the dishwasher.”
Jeff Geerling’s $1,000 Bosch dishwasher locks rinse, delayed start, and half load behind an app and a cloud account. The model with buttons for those features costs $400 more. A replacement control board costs $299. The workaround is a reverse-engineered Python library.