Probably my last kick at addressing the problem once and for all, arrives in a week. My 220v washer refuses to act like a normal washer and shake all over the place 
I’ve had good results from using an Aeon v1 HEM, with this driver, but not perfect. The phantom notifications are disappointing. It’s my machine, not the Aeon HEM or the driver. It fluctuates between 5 and 18 watts just sitting, but it’s lowest running wattage is 17 watts!
Things I have tried:
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Aeon HEM v1 with Mike Maxwell’s excellent driver for laundry monitoring that @ogiewon so kindly ported to HE for us. I’m now using that for my microwave and I plan to use it for other appliances.
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Xiaomi vibration sensor and the SmartThings 2018 Multisensor.
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A Wyze cam inside the machine to try and track movements of white square painted on the drum belt.
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Tapping a contact sensor directly into the washing machine controller board. That one got a little bit too scary, in that I don’t want to shell out $400 for a new controller board if I screwed it up.
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Sense Home Energy Monitor. The most expensive attempt to date at $430 CAD. While I don’t regret that at all because I learned Sense is awesome, the fact is that their support staff suggested it would never be able to discover my machine because of its nature of extreme high energy efficiency, so I returned Sense before my window closed. But Sense is possibly one of the best energy monitors you can get, and I do plan to revisit it someday. It also showed me that with this Aeon v1 HEM driver, my existing device is actually very accurate for the overall energy consumption readings when I had both the Sense and the Aeon CT clamps on the incoming legs for direct comparison. I noticed in my few weeks with Sense, that overall consumption was what I was mainly looking at anyway. I have since purchased another Aeon V1 HEM for just $75 CAD to monitor my overall usage data.
Things I have yet to try:
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Homeseer HS-FS100-L (fingers crossed). Others have had good success with this, so I’m hopeful once again. The top cover of my machine comes off with just two screws, and you can see the running light illuminating on the inside of the machine. So I’m hopeful I can mount the light sensor next to it on the inside, so I don’t have to have this ugly wire and sensor outside the machine. Needing to do that would almost cover the start button because the light is just above it.
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A microwave motion sensor. This is a long-shot, and to get one with the Zigbee or Z-wave integration is fairly expensive for me in Canada. But to get one that simply closes contacts is not, so I could potentially connect a contact sensor to one of those, and maybe it would sense the drum belt turning. I could actually do this for less than the cost of the light sensor, but I’m getting kind of tired of messing around with this. I just want to solution that works perfectly.
