Hi!
I have a tumble dryer where I’ve used a Shelly Plug to notify me when the power usage goes below 250W (which is when the tumble dryer is finished). The problem is at this point it starts an hour long Anti Crease program which then, sporadically, runs the drum once or twice again at which point the automation triggers again.
My solution would be the trigger to set a value “Dryer.Done” to “1” at first trigger and then have “Dryer.Done” = “0” as a condition for the very same automation to run in the first place.
I would then have another automation set “Dryer.Done” to “0” when the power usage is >600W or something similar (since this only happens when the dryer is started).
Edit. A simple solution could also be to somehow prevent the trigger from triggering again within 90 minutes of the first trigger… would this be easier? And if so how would this be realized?
How would the above be applied? Or is there an easier solution.
Cheers!
/Kalle