Trying to make our not very smart dishwasher to tell me when it is finished. I know, there are plenty of automations out there that does that but I can’t find one that fits my needs.
Actually it’s not that complicated. I’m using a smart plug that measures the power and when the washer is done, it turns off and drops to 0 watts, so the automation is quite simple to send a message at 0 W. What I’m struggling with is that I want it to do this only if it has reached over a threshold of X watts for Y minutes. The reason is that my kids often turns the power on (why can’t the power button be locked?) and we have to power it off and I don’t want that to trigger a message.
So what i need is a condition that says that the power must first have reached over a certain level before the message is sent when it drops to 0.
Thus is a great solution, it works well, but it might need a little tweaking. If you run a cycle on the dishwasher while watching the power draw for each stage of the cycle you can plug the numbers into the automation.