stray stag
My washing machine (older model, no beeper or anything) is attached to a power sensor.
Right now there's an automation that says "when power consumption drops below 2W for more than 1 minute, notify me".
How do I change this to "when first, power consumption rises above 10W, then 20 minutes pass, and THEN it drops below 2W"? Is that even possible with automations alone?
ashen nova
you can add "wait for trigger/time" in the actions step, but you need to be a bit careful here
it depends on the exact behaviour you want, do you want >10W for 20 mins, then alert when it goes <2W?
in which case a trigger to check it's >10W for 20 mins, then a wait for trigger to check <2W then notification is probably the simplest route
stray stag
I lowered the times. 1 min > 5W, then 10 minutes of waiting time, then eventually 1 min < 5W should suffice. Basically, the machine will work for 30 to 120 minutes, going between 50-ish W and 2500-ish W wildly, then eventually drop to 4W ... it looks like this now. I guess I'll see in a while.
Thank you!