Revolutionary, Indeed

I have been looking for an easy way to turn on a coffee maker remotely.

There are insanely expensive WiFi coffee makers that will allegedly grind the coffee to order, control the water temperature, all that. I've got a sneaking suspicion that they'll brew fewer than 10 pots before failing, and that even if the hardware is working in six months they'll turn the service off.

I was thinking of plugging in a cheap drip coffeemaker into a smart plug (somehow I have five of those that aren't plugged in) but out-of-the-box every coffeemaker I've seen doesn't start when you turn it on but needs a button pressed. I tried shorting the pins together on the start button and that doesn't work, I think I'd have to put in a 556 time to delay a moment and then 'push' the button.

Maybe they make coffeemakers that just start instead of pushing a button or setting a silly clock, but I think it might be against the law because of fire safety or something like that.

Let's see it go head-to-head with a Sunbeam T-20.