“Hur Hur that’s what a timer on your phone is for dude”

Yeah but this was a smart plug that was going dusty in a drawer!

Anyway it’s not the notification that makes my brain tickle in that special way, but the fact that my HA takes note of who was in the kitchen when the air fryer was started and only notifies the floor with that person on when it’s done.

Now I’ve worked that logic out with a silly Air Fryer notification I can reuse it in all my other automations.

  • @TedZanzibarEnglish
    1•25 days ago

    The whole point of home automation is that it’s automated. Setting a timer on your phone is for chumps.

    I have a similar thing to notify us when the washing machine is done, only without the cool presence stuff - I’ll have to look into your setup for that!

    I also use a smart plug to monitor our toaster. Not for notifications but because it uses a mechanical timer that if it fails, will also fail to turn the element off, so it comes with dire warnings about always unplugging it after use. Instead I just have HA setup to turn off the plug if it ever draws power for more than 4 minutes.

    • LifeBandit666OPEnglish
      1•25 days ago

      Don’t know why you’ve been down voted but don’t worry I put you back up to positive.

      Your toaster automation sounds like what I had to do with the old dishwasher. It would finish the cycle but not stop, so it would continually try to keep up to temperature for some reason.

      So I had my notify automation for when it was done and then I had it switch off when the power dropped.

      Minor inconvenience to that setup was having to turn it back on again when I wanted to use it. I didn’t wanna have to go under the sink and wade through all the shit in there to get to the plug so I used Google “Hey Google, wash up”

      But we have a new one now so I can leave it on.

      I also have the washing machine notification. At present it announces when the motion sensor in the kitchen picks up movement and the washer is finished, and sends a notification to the phones in the house when the announcement is made with “I emptied it” and “Ignore” so you walk in the kitchen, get shouted at to empty the washer and a phone notification.

      But I am planning on having the same presence detection pick up who triggered the motion sensor and only notify that phone, just haven’t gotten around to it just yet

      • @TedZanzibarEnglish
        2•25 days ago

        Thanks for the re-upvote. My guess is it was someone who sets timers on their phone. 😂

        Dammit, now you’ve got my head swimming with ways to improve the washing machine stuff. I bet a vibration sensor on top could be combined with the smart plug power monitoring to detect when it’s being emptied.

        How did you do the Google-turning-on-the-smartplug thing? I feel like I’m missing a lot of tricks by not having HA integrated into those. I just use them for audible notifications currently.