I recently installed Better Laundry Monitor and it works great on my dish washer and clothes washer. Dryer is 220V so it is a different.
Saw a post about using a current sensing relay and never read far enough to see there was no finished path forward for doing that. Anyway, have the current sensing relay around the wire in the dryer that sends power to the drum motor and it is wired up to a contact sensor and the contact switch triggers perfectly - when the dryer is running the contact is closed - when the dryer stops the contact is open.
The struggle is with a rule that triggers reliably and not repeatedly. Something building off...
Monitor Contact Sensor for change
If closed for more than 4 minutes
Then opened for more than 2 minutes
Notify device
Trigger Events
Monitor Contact Sensor closed and stays that way for: 0:04:00
Actions to Run
Wait for event: Monitor Contact Sensor open and stays that way for: 0:02:00
Notify device
Hi - I was going the RM route since it looked like Better Laundry Monitor only used contacts to signal if a door was opened. That isn't quite the case for me, and I'd like to still have the delays like are applied to power monitoring devices. Am I looking at the app wrong? Thanks.
With Power Monitoring in BLM, the purpose is to get an envelope around a cycle. Then you determine how many cycles constitute a Laundry Cycle.
Your Contact Sensor is reflecting the state of the Current Relay but fundamentally it's defining a cycle all by itself. It doesn't need threshold values or delays. You would then determine how many cycles constitute a full Laundry Cycle. If a dryer has "Wrinkle Control" it runs quite a few cycles before the temp is low enough to be the end of a Laundry Cycle. Maybe it's 10. You could then set the number of cycles to 10 and get notification at the end of the Laundry Cycle. Additionally you could set a deadman timer to be 60 mins so that if the dryer has variability in the number of "Wrinkle Control"cycles it performs, you'd get notification eventually.
I've created a "Contact Sensor" selection and will release it once I've done some testing.
