• Put clothes in washer.
  • 36 hours later, realize never put clothes in dryer! Aww crap… gonna need to wash again.
  • Investigate. Discover never started washer, clothes never got wet.
  • Victory…?
  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I have an old washer and dryer that work. I don’t want to replace them with smart devices. I DO want to get a text whenever they’re done with their cycles. Any ideas how to make that happen?

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyzOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I have the skill set, but not the free time or interest. I LITERALLY might do this though (I’m this kind of weird hacker)…

      • Get an old Android phone (I have like 5, I don’t know how many would charge, but probably 2 would). Duct tape it to your washer.
      • Write an app that queries the accelerometer and detects jiggling.
      • Wait 2 minutes. If there’s more jiggling, start the 2 minutes over.
      • When there’s no jiggling for 2 minutes, send a push notification.
    • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      ADHD person here.
      I installed Home Assistant on a small RPi and used a Wifi plug.

      I then I used one of the many blueprints that basically says “If power is over 5amp, and then stop for 5 minutes and under 5amps, then send a message to your phone”.

      Not exactly easy, but its really fun.