Smart Meter

I’m planning a home automation project and it looks like I will be using HA. One of the things I want to do is a notification when the washer or dryer is finished.

I figure I can install a smart meter outlet and when current is drawn, set a flag that says “dryer is on” and then when the current stops, the flag will be set to “dryer is off” and I can send a notification. Is this something HA can do? I was thinking of a Enerwave ZW20RM .

Future plans would be to integrate it into the Echo so I can say something like “Alexa, tell Home to tell Bob the dryer is off” and have different phone numbers for different people to be notified.

Bob

Check this blog post for a different approach.

Thanks, I saw that approach and thought it was far more complicated than it needed to be.

The SmartMeter options is the one if you don’t want to tinker.