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

[Blacky]

New Update 3.4

Watts your appliance up to, you’re always in the know from start to finish!

New Features

• Device Tracker - Home Assistant can track the location of your mobile devices using the built-in device tracker. If your devices are set up for location tracking and you’ve defined one or more zones, you can enable this option to send notifications only to the devices you’ve selected that are currently located within a selected zone.

• Notification Icon - Android Only - This allows you to replace the default Home Assistant icon with one of your choice and set the colour for Start Notify, End Notify, or Watchdog.

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[XabiX]

Thank you Blacky for the great blueprint, if they were all like you then it would be great.

I have the latest one installed but I already started to have the issue before. My Automatisation doesn’t get triggered

What can I be looking at? My goal is get notified when the washing machine finishes. I just added start and stop on top now but have not yet tested it but as my energy sensor does work well I am not sure why i would even need thems.

alias: Lave Linge
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: Blackshome/appliance-notifications.yaml
  input:
    power_sensor: sensor.lave_linge_energy
    include_start_notify: disable_start_notify_options
    start_message: Démarrage du lave linge
    include_end_notify: enable_end_notify_options
    end_message: La machine à laver le linge a fini!
    end_reminder_notification_message: Il faudrait penser à sortir le ligne du lave linge :)
    include_power_tracking: enable_power_tracking_and_cost
    power_consumption_sensor: sensor.lave_linge_energy
    include_watchdog: enable_watchdog
    watchdog_timeframe:
      hours: 3
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
    watchdog_message: Le lave-linge n'a toujours pas fini, est-ce normal?
    include_duration_tracking: enable_duration_tracking
    end_message_kwh: Consommation
    end_message_cost: Coût €
    cost_per_kwh: sensor.lave_linge_energy
    end_notify_device:
      - d0fdeb47dca6f83e99a89d75f310be9c
      - 5855e248efc5b64c699dadf27a59c8ea
    end_message_title: Lave Linge
    start_notify_device:
      - d0fdeb47dca6f83e99a89d75f310be9c
      - 5855e248efc5b64c699dadf27a59c8ea
    start_title: Lave Linge
    start_power_consumption: input_number.lave_linge_start
    end_power_consumption: input_number.lave_linge_stop
    watchdog_notify_device:
      - d0fdeb47dca6f83e99a89d75f310be9c
      - 5855e248efc5b64c699dadf27a59c8ea
    watchdog_notify_data:
      - icon

[Blacky]

@XabiX

You’re close… just a couple of inputs need to be adjusted.

Power Settings

Power Sensor: You’ve selected sensor.lave_linge_energy, but that’s not the right entity here. This sensor reports total energy usage in kWh, not live power.

What you need instead is the sensor that shows the live power usage in watts. When the washing machine is running, this sensor will show the power fluctuating up and down in real time.

Energy Tracking Inputs

• Energy Sensor: You’ve correctly used sensor.lave_linge_energy here… nice job!

• Cost per kWh: You’ve also entered sensor.lave_linge_energy, which is incorrect.

  For this input, you need to create a number helper that holds the cost of your electricity rate (per kWh).

  Click here for instructions on how to create a number helper.

Let us know how you go.

Blacky

[XabiX]

I have only this option for the Power Sensor

Here are the type of sensors, I have:

Should I be creating a derivated sensor then to make it work?

2/ Merci I add created the number template but I did a mistake, which is now corrected thanks to you:

Merci

[Blacky]

@XabiX

You will have to have a energy sensor that reads the actual power draw. Something like this click here

Blacky

[XabiX]

@Blacky

that reads the actual power draw

Bad news as I don’t plan to add an additional device just for that. As my device have a switch entity on/off and a select one with Running/Stopped I will use those to make a simple automation (maybe less realible).

Merci for your support and help!

[cptdaydreamer]

Hey,

any idea how I could use the clear_notification function without changing the blueprint?

I mean the notification tag is already there, and I would love to delete the start notify message when the end notify message is posted. But I don’t know how as I can only add a tag for both.

[Blacky]

@cptdaydreamer

@cptdaydreamer

I would love to delete the start notify message when the end notify message is posted.

What you do is add a tag like washing-clothes. You then use that same tag in the start and end Notification Tag input.

Blacky

[cptdaydreamer]

Oh, is the function already implemented like this? I didn’t know. Was it mentioned somewhere? Sorry then!

[Blacky]

@cptdaydreamer

That’s okay, no stress.

Blacky

[Blacky]

New Update 3.5

Watts your appliance up to, you’re always in the know from start to finish!

Maintenance

• Since the last release, some of my automations weren’t running reliably.

  I found a spacing issue and converted all conditions from shorthand to longhand format.

  Since making these changes, everything has been running reliably for the past week.

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[dovy6 (Dovy)]

Does this (wonderful, btw, thank you so much) automation support using AI LLMs to generate the notifications? I haven’t messed with any of the LLM stuff yet, but I’m thinking I might break it out so I stop getting the same notification every time my clothes are dry!

Thanks again

[Blacky]

@dovy6

I keep my Home Assistant setup local and don’t connect it to any AI, that’s a big reason I use it. But I know others have made it work with custom actions.

Blacky

[dovy6 (Dovy)]

@Blacky I totally get that… I’m only curious about custom notification texts but I’m not sure it’s worth allowing big AI into my machine, either.

[Howl]

Thanks so much for making great automation blueprints!
I’m new to HA and started using your sensor light and this one which have been fantastic.

Apologies if this is posted elsewhere, but is it possible to make the ‘Device Tracker’ check a zone at the start of a washing cycle to use for ‘End Notify’?

I’d like to send ‘End Notify’ to devices which were in the zone when the automation is first turned triggered, even if they are not in the zone when ‘End Notify’ occurs.

(Use case: If I turn the washing on and go out shopping for a few hours, I’d like to get the notification sent to me, but not sent to other people who have not been home all day).

[michael.miz.ziegler]

Is there a way to get a Boolean (true/false) when the blueprint is started by a power entity without making making a special sensor? I would like to have an entity that is true between start and end.

[Jan1503]

Hi @Blacky and thanks for this nice blueprint.

I want to use it to monitor some rain pumps in my garden so it would be nice if you could add some watchdog that monitors the “power sensor” entity’s availability (unavailable, unknown) to detect possible power-loss and detect some overpowering with a threshold if the pump get stuck or something.

Thanks and regards,
Jan

[Blacky]

@Howl

Welcome to the community and thanks for your kind words.

@Howl

is it possible

The only solution I can think of that might work is to replicate the blueprint for each person you want to receive notifications. That means: one automation per person.

In each automation, use the global condition to check whether that specific person is in the zone. If they are, they’ll receive both the start and end notifications. If they’re not in the zone when the automation starts, it will stop immediately, and they won’t receive anything.

Blacky

[Blacky]

@michael.miz.ziegler

Yes, create a toggle helper to use as your boolean. Then use the custom actions for the start and end events. In the start custom action, turn the toggle ON, and in the end custom action, turn it OFF.

Blacky

[Blacky]

@Jan1503

Maybe for the extra notifications you after you could use this blueprint.

State Notifications & Actions

Blacky