sounds exactly like something that i want to set up for a while now. i just didn't find yet a good solution to overcome the two stories between our flat and the basement which houses the washing machine :/
@eightys3v3n@chaospatterns I got one that uses two CT clamps. It barely fit into the wall box with everything else in there, but I didn't shorten any of the wires to free up room. It's been a great addition to my overall monitoring infrastructure.
I installed an Emporia Vue2 flashed with ESPHome in my home breaker box and put CT clamps on all my circuits which makes installing this integration easy.
This integration is pretty well polished and was much more polished than my simple crossing trigger I had before.
Just started using it so it hasn't learned any cycles yet.
Connecting the wires is a little finicky at times, but I used a pogo pin clamp which had the right pitch size to make it easy to connect and avoid soldering. Once you get it on ESPhome the first time, you can keep OTA updating new firmware
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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WashData - Home Assistant integration that detects appliance cycles and estimates remaining time | Spyke
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sounds exactly like something that i want to set up for a while now. i just didn't find yet a good solution to overcome the two stories between our flat and the basement which houses the washing machine :/
That's cool. Now I still need a 208V dual live wire energy monitor device for my dryer though.
@eightys3v3n @chaospatterns I got one that uses two CT clamps. It barely fit into the wall box with everything else in there, but I didn't shorten any of the wires to free up room. It's been a great addition to my overall monitoring infrastructure.
They make these to put inside your breaker box too to monitor all your circuits.
I installed an Emporia Vue2 flashed with ESPHome in my home breaker box and put CT clamps on all my circuits which makes installing this integration easy.
This integration is pretty well polished and was much more polished than my simple crossing trigger I had before.
Just started using it so it hasn't learned any cycles yet.
Was it easy to flash? I've already got mine installed but have been interested in flashing it for esphome instead.
I didn't know about this integration and have just been using an x appliance has been using power for x amount of time trigger.
Connecting the wires is a little finicky at times, but I used a pogo pin clamp which had the right pitch size to make it easy to connect and avoid soldering. Once you get it on ESPhome the first time, you can keep OTA updating new firmware
This walks through what I did
Neat, thanks!!
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.