Unusual uses for Smarthings

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

@ero4444

I want to do this with my primary desktop. It takes a while to shutdown, and it would be nice if SmartThings would observe plug load less than 16 watts and kill the outlet. Is there an existing or close-enough smartapp for this?

I did a very shallow quick search of the Forums and found this Posting below (you may try additional searches). I was able to find this entry because I remembered that Laundry machine monitoring was the requirement / use case.

Looking for Energy Usage based Switch

Be careful thought, many people myself included have had poor luck with using powerMeter as an event handler. It doesn’t seem to update frequently enough. I had to wrap my version of Laundry Monitor within Pollster to get it to check for power in intervals. It goes against the core of SmartApp authoring but it gets the job done.