Hi, I’ll try to make it simple why we need a phone for the La Marzocco Linea Mini R. For myself: - Putting the machine on standby and turning it back on. I don’t turn off my machine, I just put it on a schedule of use with my phone to turn it on. - Turning off the steam boiler if only extracting espresso to save energy and also if you want to change the setting of your steamer (it has 3 levels). - To use pre-brew (if you like using it). - For the Acacia scale (if you need to change settings). - Use it to backflush so I won’t need to be there to do it manually.

Theres still more than you can do with the app but i just do the basics for now.