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Of all the appliances that could be "smart", I find the fridge the least exciting.
My heat pump has Wi-Fi. Cool, I can turn it on remotely so it starts heating or cooling my home.
Washing machine that tells you it's finished and reports the ETA in the meantime - not an entirely unwanted feature, since the same program could take 1 hour or 5 depending on how much laundry I put in. Mine doesn't have it and I don't NEED it, but if I'm ever in the market again and two equivalent washing machines from a reputable brand (MAYBE I'd trust Miele. Definitely not Samsung, LG, most others) were priced roughly the same, I'd buy the one with it.
I just can't think of a world where a smart fridge would work better for me than my dumb one though. I paid a bit extra to get one that had a better efficiency rating and a nearly silent compressor and that's it. The only things I would find to be "upgrades" over this would be if it was a larger SBS one that made ice, but I decided not to triple the budget from ~600 to ~2000.
How is your laundry taking 5 hours? Just how much are you stuffing in those machines?
A washer that takes that long would be kind of insane, but a drying time in the 4+ hour range isn't that wild, in my experience.
Thats a long time as well.
The all in ones tend to be heat pump condensor dryers. Which are great, way less power used, and genteler on clothes, BUT take way longer.
I got one, and I struggle to think I'd ever go back to moving laundry over between machines unless I had to, even if it means 2-3 hours for medium load of laundry. It does that in the background anyways.