Notify Me When Dryer is Done

General Discussion
1

Hello!

I am attempting to modify the “Notify Me When” app to send me a push notification when acceleration stops (to indicate the dryer is done). I am in no means a developer. I just tried setting the subscribe event to inactive, but maybe I’m missing something. I have seen some posts mentioning something like this in the forums. Does anyone have any code they can share for this?

Thanks

2

Hi @mquirante – Here’s an some example code from one of our developers at SmartThings that’s designed to turn on a light switch when the washer/dryer is done:

All you’d need to do is remove the preference input section for the switch, and instead of doing switch1.on() in the turnOn() method, you’d do:

sendPush( "The dryer is done..." )

I hope that’s helpful!

-d

3

Thanks for your help @dlieberman !

I tried it out over the weekend and I wasn’t able to get it to work properly. Here’s the code I used:

/**
 *  Laundry is Done
 *
 *  Author: meghann.quirante@usability.pro
 *  Date: 2013-08-21
 */
preferences {
 
	section("When this dryer/washer...") {
		input "sensor1", "capability.accelerationSensor"
	}
	section("Has stopped for this number of minutes...") {
		input "timePeriod", "decimal", title: "Minutes"
	}
	
}
 
def installed()
{
	subscribe(sensor1, "acceleration", accelerationHandler)
}
 
def updated()
{
	unsubscribe()
	subscribe(sensor1, "acceleration", accelerationHandler)
}
 
def accelerationHandler(evt)
{
	// this method will be called whenever virbration starts or stops
	log.trace "$evt.name: $evt.value"
 
	if (evt.value == "active") {
		// If vibration is active, unschedule the turning on of the switch
		unschedule("turnOn")
	} else if (evt.value == "inactive") {
		// If vibration is inactive, start the timer
		runIn(timePeriod * 60, turnOn)
	}
}
 
def sendMessage(evt) {
	// Send Push notification (and/or whatever else you want to do when the washer stops)
	sendPush( "Laundry is done yo!" )
	
}

In fact, I’m not sure the Multi is working properly. It always says its “Open” and “Active” even though its just sitting there when the dryer isn’t in use.