I want to notify the wife of our washing machine status, she always forgets to empty it after it is finished. The washing machine is plugged into a Plugwise module and the power usage is 2 or 3 watt when idle.
I created an event:
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Name: Washing Machine is Ready
Cannot Retrigger for: 3600 seconds
Trigger Type: Device Value Change
Select Days: All Days
Apply Conditions: Device "Wasmachine Plugwise" value does not equal 0
Device Value: "Wasmachine Plugwise" less than 20
Action: Send email to wife@domain.net
but i think there is a better way to do this using a script. Does anyone uses a script ? And do you take in account the moment when the washing machine is waiting for "inweken" and the power usage drops to 3 watt it will also notify and therefore sends a false positive
I also would like to have a second script to remind her of the washing machine status
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If device status is 2 or 3 watt for at least 2hrs send notify, but this is not possible using events. And because of the toggling between 2 and 3 watts on idle i cannot use "device status changed" field