Automating a Countertop Ice Maker

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I have an ice maker that requires you to push a button after plugging the power in. To automate this I decided to try a Shelly1 gen3 mini. It ended up being pretty simple to get the Shelly1 to toggle the button.

I found a blueprint to easily add a momentary switch automation for HA to be able to toggle the button. Then I made a basic automation to check if my wife is home and what time work is scheduled in the calendar to turn the ice maker on in the morning so that ice is waiting for her.

The issue with the current setup is that I don’t have a way to know if the switch is on or off. If the power cycles or the physical button is pressed HA has no way of knowing. If it becomes an issue I will either add power monitoring or toggle a smart plug off and then on before running the automation.

My particular Ice maker is a Frigidaire EFIC2400 that I bought from Costco recently. I suspect what I did would work the same for any ice maker that uses the same face buttons and control module - I see the Frigidaire EFIC103 and EUHOMY on amazon look the same. I had to specifically use the Shelly1 as it has dry contacts and the switch I am triggering is 12v DC, otherwise I’d have preferred to use the Shelly1PM or another with power monitoring built in.

Hopefully somebody finds these images useful.

Controller

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Adding my orange and blue wires for Shelly to toggle the button
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connecting Shelly to 120v with wagos
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Hot gluing the button wires and my jumpers into place as well as securing the Shelly1 mini.
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We did something similar, but without relays, and with custom software: Smart Ice Maker

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I probably would have copied what you did there if I had known! googling didn’t turn up many results so I figured I had to go my own way. I can’t really program so I didn’t go the ESP way.

I see you know the status of the power as well using the LEDs it looks like? I thought maybe that was something I could do, but the light on my machine switches from red to white while its running and red when its not but an ice full indicator would also turn it red so i’m not sure it would work.

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Hey, just been looking around for a smart Ice Maker (yet another one has packed up on me which I’ve been controlling with a finger bot).

Annoyingly I see Govee make an actual smart one, but only in the US it seems.

So how well has this setup worked for you? And how easy was it to find which wires you needed to hook the Shelly up to?

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It works pretty well. I can’t track the state to see if it is on or off but it has only caused an issues a couple times.

finding the wires is pretty easy. I just ran jumpers until the machine turned on.