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WashData - Home Assistant integration that detects appliance cycles and estimates remaining time (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago* (3 children)

But why install an integration when the Appliance Notifications and Actions blueprint exists?

I think the only functional difference is that Washdata attempts to infer which cycle was run, but the blueprint doesn’t have to be configured via yaml.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I have been using that blueprint for the better part of a year, and just switched to WashData last week. I can confidently say that WashData absolutely blows that blueprint clean out of the water.

    The biggest thing for me regarding WashData is that it can detect when a cycle starts and ends much faster than that blueprint.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That’s possibly your detection settings or method (detection criteria, etc). My washer and dryer are separate devices on separate power monitoring plugs. The only time power draw for either goes above 2 watts is when they’re cycled on.

    I just told the blueprint to wait 2 minutes before deciding a cycle has started before declaring it’s started, and 5 minutes after it has ended before sending a notification.

    But I mean, I’m not here to yuck your yum. If it works for you, it works for you.

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