Make your Washing Machine Smart with Home Assistant

[@jasonflt]

keep up the simple automations please. so much has change over the past 4 yrs and the old automations where so complicated.

[@ProjectSmartHome]

Thanks for the feedback, let me know if there are other "simple" automations that you would like to see. It would be good to get some other ideas and hear what other people would like to automate..

[@jasonflt]

​@@ProjectSmartHome okay i have one for you. I bought a aqara mini switch. I would like to add it to the automation and when the mini switch isn't pressed in 30 mins a reminder is sent out again stay the washing needs to be emptied, it will repeat this say 3 more times or it will stop when the button is pressed. the button will be on the washing machine itself.

[@ProjectSmartHome]

You would need a trigger to kick off the automation. So if, like me, you can monitor power consumption, when power drops below 5w, this would be your trigger. You can the broadcast an unload washing machine message every 30 mins until the aqara button is pressed. Another option might be to put a door sensor on the washer door. Once the doors opened the reminders would stop. Might be better as they may forget to push the aqara button. I might do this myself :0)

[@jasonflt]

​@@ProjectSmartHomeya there is a door sensor automation on KZbin. I might have to go that way

[@SteveGoodenough]

How do you avoid early firing of the alert, e.g. you turn on the plug but spend more than 5 minutes before starting the programme? Wouldn't it be better to only do the below check once the machine has been running, e.g. the power is higher than a certain value for a period of time.

[@ProjectSmartHome]

The trigger is " when the power drops below 5w" so based on this, the automation only triggers after a wash cycle.

[@ToTo-od9wz]

Thank you. It came just in time for me.

[@goodcitizen4587]

Very cool, thanks!

[@ProjectSmartHome]

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!

[@louisviciedo]

great video, not sure about grouping the phone notifications however you can group the media players as follows: service: notify.alexa_media data: message: Fire Detected data: type: announce target: - media_player.echo_dot - media_player.kitchen_echo - media_player.bedroom_echo

[@realasadkhan]

Kindly share the blueprint of this automation

[@ProjectSmartHome]

I have copied the automation for my washing machine notification in to Github. github.com/ProjectSmartHome2023/ProjectSmartHome-Code-share.git

[@ProjectSmartHome]

As I mentioned in the video I use smartthings smart plugs with energy monitoring built in. I have used these for years since I was doing most of my automation with the Smartthings hub..... Things move on, I need to buy a new smart plug for a new project. I'd be interested to know what smart plugs you are using and why?

[@ldb89]

Settings > Devices & Services > Helpers > Create Helper > Group > Notify Group

[@ProjectSmartHome]

I had a look at this and couldn't see how I could add multiple mobile phone notifications to the notify group. As I mentioned in the video its a pain to have to add separate notifications for mine and my wife's phone. It would be good to have a predefined group that I could use in multiple automations. If anyone has an ideas on this please let me know.

[@rsmit1375]

difficult to follow , maybe zoom in instead total main screen

[@ProjectSmartHome]

Thanks for the feedback. I have made some changes in later videos so that the viewer can see my mouse actions. Hopefully that will improve things for the viewer.