I’m new to the ST platform, and after successful installation of my homes security system, I learned just how much ST can really do. Like MONITORING the LAUNDRY. Or, is this a joke? Because after using an Extra Multi-Sensor from ST, I mounted it on our Washing Machine. I thought I’d followed t…

You need to play around with the settings to get it work. The refill time is important. This is my setup. [image]

A lot of people ended up not using these because it senses the vibration of the washer/dryer and lets you know when Vibration stops. As you could guess it doesn’t work always because of this. A work around is to use a aeon energy monitor to give you current power usage and have it let you know when …

FYI, my ST multi purpose sensors (with CR2032) are too sensitive to rely on for laundry monitoring. They detect imperceptible activity at any time. Power monitoring has been reliable.

Sound like your house is constantly vibrating :thinking:

The laundry monitor app actually works well for me on both my washer and dryer; I did have to fine tune where I mounted the sensors. I stuck them on the vertical side panel (rather than the top) of the appliances. The ‘oil drum’ effect of the large sheet metal panel was necessary to pick up the v…

Can someone explain to me the minimum cycle time and time to fill tub? I can see the device detecting vibration but it doesn’t notify. Screenshot attached [image]

I’ve never seen any documentation for the app but I think the fill time would be the longest ‘quiet time’ expected during a cycle which would inhibit the app from detecting the end of a cycle prematurely. I’d assume the app ensures that it has detected multiple shock events during the minimum cycle…

Where is the Laundry Monitor SmartApp? I can’t find it in my Android SmartThings app. I looked through all the categories. And why isn’t there a search? Sim

[image] noisygecko: Where is the Laundry Monitor SmartApp? I can’t find See this thread, it was recently removed from the marketplace. In there you will find a link to the source code that you can install manually [image] Updates to SmartThings Mobile App Marketplace Announ…

Laundry Monitor w/ST Multi-Sensor

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brumster (Paul) March 20, 2017, 7:18am 4

I’ll second that. I scrapped the multi and just used a metering socket and a basic core piston:

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