The washing machine tells me how long it’s going to take when I start it, but it’s often wrong and takes longer. I’ve been descending into the basement countless times, usually from the first floor, only to notice it’s not done yet.

This is just a small thing but I want to share anyways: I just plugged it in a Zigbee plug with power meter and put an entity icon into the default dashboard. It’s conditional and only shows up when power!=0.0.

No more pointless stairs!

Screenshot from a dashboard, showing some entities like temperature etc

Screenshot from the same dashboard, with an additional yellow icon showing its currently using 53W

I have moved it next to the basement temperature but it’s not running right now and I don’t want to forge the screenshot so it’s showing before the change.

  • Harald_im_Netz@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Little fun fact I’ve picked up about washing machines often giving “wrong” times. These are estimates and they regularly change throughout the washing cycle.

    Especially right before the spinning program starts, the machine needs to carefully adjust the weight inside of it, so that the unbalance does not do any damage.