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Cool hack and enjoyable read. The smart plug idea is slick. I like the idea of decoupling the smart from the appliance. I'd much rather all my appliances be dumb. In the US, you'd have to get a 240 volt smart plug. Are there any reputable ones? For the laundry use case, I just set an alarm on my phone though...
For the 75% that use electric. 25% use gas with 120V motor/control.
I picked up a simple Zigbee vibration sensor for less than 20$, taped it on top of the washer/dryer, and connected it to HomeAssistant using Zigbee2MQTT. After creating two automations to detect start/stop based on continuous vibrations over a few minutes, I had the notifications working the exact same way.
Not to knock other people's hobbies, but our dryer plays a loud jingle when done, no Internet connection required. Do other models not have this feature?
How loud is that jingle, and how small is your house? for some, the dryer is located in a basement, far away enough that no such jingle, or buzzer can be heard in the rest of the house.
Not to knock other people's hobbies, but our dryer plays a loud jingle when done, no Internet connection required. Do other models not have this feature?
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A current clamp meter will not tell you anything unless you break out the individual wires you want to measure. Having both live and neutral running through the clamp will cause the electric field of the neutral to cancel out the field of the live whenever the device draws current, so the meter will be unable to read anything.
This isn't too big of a deal since at least around here, appliances tend to be wired with screw terminals. So, in a lot of cases there actually is a separate place to measure hot and neutral without any terrible hacks. (Not sure if that applies to my dryer, though: I should check.)
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Would you be as salty if it was free clipart or stock photos?
If the free clipart or stock photos were 8.3 megabytes for two images on the web that don't add any meaning to the page? Yes.
The subtext with which to understand both of our comments is the clearly recognizable generative image from an LLM.
For some reason it is completely acceptable on these forums to trash talk people who use LLMs, or even more problematic, to disparagingly accuse someone of sounding like an LLM.
I assume because it is based on the idea that using an LLM is low effort which is why I mentioned different kinds of low effort images that are not often criticized.
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This isn't too big of a deal since at least around here, appliances tend to be wired with screw terminals. So, in a lot of cases there actually is a separate place to measure hot and neutral without any terrible hacks. (Not sure if that applies to my dryer, though: I should check.)
My dryer (I live in Canada) has a 240V plug with a heavy-duty cable, no exposed wires. My dishwasher is wired directly into the mains (I installed it myself) but neither the laundry washer nor the dryer are hard-wired.