Inspired by @Sbyx easy yet absolutely useful Blueprint I wanted to share how I use it:
Like many of you I work my full week in home office and wife is at home with our two kids and does the bulk of the household chores but I wanted to support her on an easy yet smart way.
What hardware do I you use:
- none smart Bauknecht washing machine
- none smart Bauknecht tumble dryer
- 2 Gosund smart sockets with energy meter
- a Pixel 6 Pro for my notifications
- a Pixel 3 for her notifcations
- a Galaxy Watch 4 for my convinience
- pretty smart(ass) wife
Okay, based on Sbyx blueprint I wrote the following automation.
Automations 1:
alias: washing_machine
description: Notify me and wife that the washing machine has finished
use_blueprint:
path: >-
sbyx/notify-or-do-something-when-an-appliance-like-a-dishwasher-or-washing-machine-finishes.yaml
input:
finishing_hysteresis: 3
power_sensor: sensor.washing_machine_helper
starting_hysteresis: 0.25
actions:
- device_id: [my smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: Please hang out the laundry or it will begin to stink!
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/washing_machine.png
actions:
- action: wife_should
title: Please, do it, wife!
- action: me_does
title: I will do it!
- device_id: [wife's smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished!
message: Please hang out the laundry or it will begin to stink!
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/washing_machine.png
actions:
- action: wife_does
title: Ich will do it!
- action: me_could
title: Could you please?
- action: dryer_60
title: 60°C laundry
As you can see this sends two slighty different notifications to my and my wife’s smartphone.
Now for the actionable notifications used to answer these first notifications:
My wife clicks on “I will do it” - best that could happen - the following automation is triggered so I get informend and she will be reminded and the very first message I got will automatically be deleted and I only get the the new notification.
Automation 2:
alias: 'washing machine: wife does'
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: wife_does
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [my smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: The wife will do it!
data:
tag: wasching_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/thumb_up.png
- device_id: [wife's smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Reminder washing machine
message: You said you will do it!
data:
icon_url: /local/Icons/reminder.png
mode: single
My wife is busy cooking or out of the house to entertin the kids she will probably hit the “Could you please?” which triggers the following automations and also deletes the very first message I received.
Automation 3:
alias: 'Washing machine: me should'
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: me_could
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [my smartphone}
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: Could you please? I'm totally busy/out of house/wrecked
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/question_mark.png
actions:
- action: me_mom
title: Yes, gimme a sec.
- action: me_nope
title: Under no circumstances!
mode: single
Okay, and here are the automations that get triggered depending on her action.
When I’m also busy right now but the webex meeting come to an end I will hit my “Yes, gimme a sec”.
Automation 4:
alias: 'Washing machine: me mom
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: me_mom
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [wife's smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: Yes, but I will take me a moment.
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/later.png
- device_id: [my smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Reminder washing machine
message: You said you will do it!
data:
icon_url: /local/Icons/reminder.png
mode: single
But if it’s long day and the meeting will go on for more than an hour I will hit “Under no circumstances!” for the next automation.
Automation 5:
alias: 'Washing machine: wife has to'
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: me_nope
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [wife's smartphone}
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: I'm in a meeting for hours, please do it when you get back home/regained consciousness
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/alarm.png
mode: single
But this was just the first half I will only start the conversation if my wife hit her actions faster than me. If I notice the notification first, thanks to my smartwatch I usually do, the upcoming automations are triggered from the actions in the first message I received.
Automation 6:
alias: 'Washing machine: me will do
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: me_does
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [wife's smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finshed
message: Your loving husband will do it!
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/thumb_up.png
- device_id: [my smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Reminder washing machine
message: You said you will do it!
data:
icon_url: /local/Icons/reminder.png
mode: single
But I got the chance to see the notification at first and I know I won’t have time to do it I just hit the “Please, do it, wife!” so she knows there’s no need for further negotiations. 
Automation 7:
alias: 'Washing machine: wife should!'
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: wife_should
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [wife's smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: Please hang up the laundry, your husband is busy!
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/thumb_down.png
mode: single
But before I forget there’s one more left. Because usually she starts the laundry day with a 60°C machine her very first notification include the action “60°C laundry” which finally informs me when hit that the laundry doesn’t have to be hung cause it goes right in the tumble dryer.
Automation 8:
alias: 'Washing machine: 60°'
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
event_data:
action: dryer_60
condition: []
action:
- device_id: [my smartphone]
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Washing machine has finished
message: It's a load for the dryer, wife will do it!
data:
tag: washing_machine
icon_url: /local/Icons/thumb_up.png
- device_id: [wife's smartphone
domain: mobile_app
type: notify
title: Reminder washing machine
message: Please put the 60° load into the dryer
data:
icon_url: /local/Icons/reminder.png
mode: single
Speaking of the tumble dryer there’s also a automation but this time only one because if the laundry is dry the laundry is dry and could get out of the machine whenever some has time to do it. Of course this one is also based on the blueprint.
Automation 9:
alias: dryer
description: ''
use_blueprint:
path: >-
sbyx/notify-or-do-something-when-an-appliance-like-a-dishwasher-or-washing-machine-finishes.yaml
input:
power_sensor: sensor.dryer_helper
finishing_hysteresis: 5
actions:
- service: notify.[group of our smartphones]
data:
title: Dryer has finished
message: >-
Please unload and don't forget to unload the water tank and the lint filter!.
data:
icon_url: /local/Icons/dryer.png
So there we go with 9 automations that could possible be 2-3 with some fancy templating but it was one my very first projects and it works flawlessly and makes it pretty easy for us so…like you say “never change a running system”.