📳 Appliance Notifications & Actions - Washing Machine - Clothes Dryer - Dish Washer - ETC

Blacky · August 9, 2024, 9:58am

I have checked it here with iOS and Android and I got the message. Are you using android or iOS?.

Blacky · August 9, 2024, 10:02am

That trace is showing that it is waiting for it to drop below 1 watt for 1 min not time. Look back on the trace line. It can be confusing.

Sypie · August 9, 2024, 10:11am

I use iOS 17.6 (latest). All other notifications come trough.

Blacky · August 9, 2024, 10:14am

It hasn’t dropped below 1 watt. Look at the time notes in the trace you will see ‘This step was not executed and so no further trace information is available.’ it waiting for the power to drop. iOS will come through.

Your at this point on your trace line.

Sypie · August 9, 2024, 10:28am

Check.

With the time limits set to 0,25 (both start and end) i could trigger it with the Developers tools → State setting it to over the minimum limit. Got the notifications! So it is working…

Thank you for your quick reply and problem solving. My bad for not thinking about the State setting before.

Keep up the good work!

Blacky · August 9, 2024, 10:30am

Nice one glad you got it up and running again

HAPPY DAYS!!

Blacky

Dr.proctor · August 12, 2024, 2:32am

Hi. This uses to work, but does not fit my washer or dryer. They are producing watts. I also notice nothing happens when I press run. I am running 2.3


alias: "Appliance: Washer Finished"
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/appliance-notifications.yaml
  input:
    power_sensor: sensor.washing_machine_electric_consumption_w
    include_end_notify: enable_end_notify_options
    end_notify_device:
      - 82efe31776fb16cca3166c33f756fef5
      - 1cfea90cb9e83023f6859604452adeb5
    end_notify_interruption_level: time-sensitive
    include_watchdog: disable_watchdog
    watchdog_timeframe:
      hours: 1
      minutes: 30
      seconds: 0
    watchdog_notify_interruption_level: time-sensitive
    include_custom_actions: []
    end_custom_actions:
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.sonos_first_floor
          message: Washer is finished
        action: tts.cloud_say
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          value: "{{ state_attr('media_player.sonos_first_floor', 'volume_level') }}"
        target:
          entity_id: input_number.media_player_volume_backuo
        alias: Get the current volume
        enabled: false
        action: input_number.set_value
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          volume_level: "{{ states('input_number.media_player_volume_backup') | float }}"
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.sonos_first_floor
        enabled: false
        action: media_player.volume_set
    end_message_title: Washer done!
    end_message: Yippee the washing machine is finished!
    watchdog_message: Uh-oh! Time to check the washer.
    include_duration_tracking: disable_duration_tracking
    include_start_notify: enable_start_notify_options
    start_notify_device:
      - 1cfea90cb9e83023f6859604452adeb5
      - 82efe31776fb16cca3166c33f756fef5
    start_notify_data:
      - channel
      - sticky
    end_appliance_power:

Blacky · August 12, 2024, 10:06am

@Dr.proctor

Looks like you were editing the automation in YAML. There is a missing input. Adjust the End - Appliance Power Setpoint to your liking.

    end_appliance_power: 5

Full code for you

alias: "Appliance: Washer Finished"
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/appliance-notifications.yaml
  input:
    power_sensor: sensor.washing_machine_electric_consumption_w
    include_end_notify: enable_end_notify_options
    end_notify_device:
      - 82efe31776fb16cca3166c33f756fef5
      - 1cfea90cb9e83023f6859604452adeb5
    end_notify_interruption_level: time-sensitive
    include_watchdog: disable_watchdog
    watchdog_timeframe:
      hours: 1
      minutes: 30
      seconds: 0
    watchdog_notify_interruption_level: time-sensitive
    include_custom_actions: []
    end_custom_actions:
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.sonos_first_floor
          message: Washer is finished
        action: tts.cloud_say
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          value: "{{ state_attr('media_player.sonos_first_floor', 'volume_level') }}"
        target:
          entity_id: input_number.media_player_volume_backuo
        alias: Get the current volume
        enabled: false
        action: input_number.set_value
      - metadata: {}
        data:
          volume_level: "{{ states('input_number.media_player_volume_backup') | float }}"
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.sonos_first_floor
        enabled: false
        action: media_player.volume_set
    end_message_title: Washer done!
    end_message: Yippee the washing machine is finished!
    watchdog_message: Uh-oh! Time to check the washer.
    include_duration_tracking: disable_duration_tracking
    include_start_notify: enable_start_notify_options
    start_notify_device:
      - 1cfea90cb9e83023f6859604452adeb5
      - 82efe31776fb16cca3166c33f756fef5
    start_notify_data:
      - channel
      - sticky
    end_appliance_power: 5

Blacky

Dr.proctor · August 13, 2024, 1:10am

Thanks, yes, was copying and pasting from my phone (nightmare). Got it working now, thanks!

reboundfoxblaat · August 13, 2024, 10:13am

Somehow the blueprint is not triggering for me. I’m using a smart plug to track the power usage of my dryer. The automation should trigger above 20W and it clearly goes above that threshold:

The settings:

alias: Wasdroger is klaar
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/appliance-notifications.yaml
  input:
    power_sensor: sensor.plug_droger_power
    end_appliance_power: 10
    include_watchdog: disable_watchdog
    watchdog_timeframe:
      hours: 3
      minutes: 30
      seconds: 0
    watchdog_notify_data:
      - high_priority
    include_custom_actions:
      - enable_end_custom_actions
    end_custom_actions:
      - data:
          message: Wasdroger is klaar!
          title: Wasdroger 😤
        action: notify.notificatiegroep
    start_appliance_power: 20
    running_dead_zone: 1
    watchdog_message: Uh-oh! Time to check the dryer
    watchdog_custom_actions: []
    include_duration_tracking: disable_duration_tracking

I’m guessing the condition is not matching somehow when I test it by taking control:

Edit: the time option has been disabled:

Blacky · August 13, 2024, 11:42am

@reboundfoxblaat

I have tested your YAML here and it works. I did not test your end custom action though. Remember it must go from below 20W to above to trigger the automation and you have set 1 min that it must be above. You then have a 1 min dead zone and then when if finishes it must go below 10W for 1 min to trigger your end action.

I do not support take control.

Blacky

reboundfoxblaat · August 13, 2024, 12:26pm

Hy Blacky, thank you for your quick response. I used take control to debug the triggers. No changes of course

I think the automation didn’t trigger because I accidentally chose the wrong entity (total kwh used vs watts in use at this moment - power). If I test it by running the dryer again it seems to trigger.

Thanks for all the hard work!

M0n0wall · August 15, 2024, 8:38pm

Hey,
First of all, thank you for developing this blueprint.
I have an issue with the finish notifications that are being sent incorrectly due to another automation that switches off the appliance during peak times.
Due to the appliance being switched off, the energy use obviously goes to zero, which meets the blueprint conditions of the appliance finished.
Is there a way to stop the finish notification if the appliance is switched off?

Regards
Dave

Blacky · August 16, 2024, 7:12am

@M0n0wall

Hi Dave and welcome to the community.

The automation must start to receive the end notification. Make sure your start it a true start, then when you just turn it OFF it will not send the notification.

Blacky

WouterN · August 17, 2024, 5:20pm

Is it possible to use Telegram for notifications?

I know that I can use ‘take control’ to modify the automation, but I don’t prefer to do so.

Update: I missed the custom end action, will use that to send the same message (template) as being used for the main message.

Update2 on this; it is working great!

Hofferic · August 22, 2024, 5:25pm

Hey Blacky, thanks so much for this blueprint - it was really plug and play without any issues for me and allowed me to skip a lot of figuring things out.

I do however have one request: is it possible to add tag and notification_icon support for the start and end notifications? Or perhaps just a dictionary style input to extend the notification data, whichever is easier.
On Android that would allow superseding the HomeAssistant icon on the Lockscreen notifications (e.g. with a washing machine) and automatically replacing start with end notification if not already dismissed instead of showing both.

It’s purely cosmetic and not worth “taking control” or pumping everything through custom actions right now, but it would be a very welcome addition

Blacky · August 22, 2024, 11:01pm

@WouterN

Nice one thanks for letting us know.

Blacky

Blacky · August 22, 2024, 11:13pm

@Hofferic

Hi Eric,

Welcome to the community.

Yes, you can use the custom actions to include anything you like in your notifications. I will also add it to the suggestion list… thanks for your input.

Blacky

RickFurtado · August 24, 2024, 7:11pm

@Blacky
Bug Report (I think):

I got this from HA logs…

Logger: homeassistant.helpers.template
Source: helpers/template.py:2651
First occurred: 11:41:45 AM (29 occurrences)
Last logged: 2:46:35 PM

Template variable warning: 'watchdognotify_data' is undefined when rendering... etc.

Searching the blueprint watchdognotify_data only appears once on line 822 in my downloaded version, and line 738 on your github version (first time I’ve noticed how different the local downloaded file is).

Looking at the rest of the script I’m pretty sure that it’s supposed to be watchdog_notify_data.

Cheers.

Blacky · August 24, 2024, 10:00pm

@RickFurtado

Thanks Rick,

Your 100% correct. I can see the code is wrong but I cant test it until I get back from Holidays. I have updated it already as I know it is wrong.

Thanks for doing the leg work and for letting us know

If you would be so kind to update the blueprint to version 2.4 and let us know if it is all resolved.

Thanks again for your help!

Blacky