bmmiller
September 22, 2015, 2:16pm
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viguera:
You add it to ST, plug your dishwasher into that and go check out the logs. Chances are that when the dishwasher is off the drain is 0W, but you never know⌠lots of âvampireâ devices out there use a watt or two here and there, so it might be something like 4W or something.
Then you install the laundry monitor app â the one from Miller, not the one from ST â and you configure it with a minimum wattage. When the wattage goes over that value the app marks it as âcycle startedâ and when it goes back below that value the app knows the cycle ended and fires up the notification / text message.
Piece of cake.
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I received the engineering spec from my friends at Aeotec, so I was able to write a functional device type for the Aeon Labs Z-Wave Smart Energy Switch . I know @bmmiller has already written a device type for this but included some preference that people might find useful.
This device type remains ACTIVE so no need to poll the device from a SmartApp to keep it reporting
You can disable the remote switch if you only care about energy monitoring
You can adjust the interval that device reports to the SmartThings hub
You can adjust in the preferences how the switch responds to the âSwitch Allâ command
You can turn on/off the debugging for the device though the UI
I also commented all of the possible configuration values in the code if someone wants to subvert the device to their own will.
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And the app that @viguera mentioned is here:
https://github.com/bmmiller/SmartThings/blob/master/smartapp.laundrymonitor/smartapp.laundrymonitor.groovy
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Just to help out the cause Iâd like to point out that you also have to use a custom device type as I donât think SmartThings has officially incorporated it into their code base (I could be wrong, I havenât added a new DSC06106 in over a year). The custom device type is here: