crystal coyote
I have an automation that notifies on my home speakers that the laundry is done.
I want to add a reminder, so if after 20 minutes the washing machine's door hasn't been open, it notifies me again. (Important, waiting 20 minutes and checking if the door is open is not correct. It needs to show only if the door never been been open in the last 20 minutes)
I don't see an easy way yo achieve that
rugged kindle
My idea would be something like this:
actions:
- wait_for_trigger:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.door_washingmachine
to: "on"
timeout:
hours: 0
minutes: 20
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
continue_on_timeout: true
- if:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.door_washingmachine
state: "on"
then:
- stop: Door has been opened
else:
- action: notify.notify
metadata: {}
data:
message: Panic
If the door is opened, nothing happens - if the door has not been opened for 20 minutes it times out and fires the notification.
Would not survive a restart of HA during the waiting period though.
granite hawk
you can just use a helper too
crystal coyote
I think I don't understand the wait_for_trigger thing, but I think I get it now.
That action makes any action that comes after it stay on hold until the trigger fires OR the timeout happens, whichever comes first. And then the action that comes after can] check if the state is open or closed to know if it fired because a timeout or because the state became "open"
correct?
rugged kindle
Yes.
crystal coyote
done. In ~20 minutes I'll know if it works!
rugged kindle
bleak ingot
I have an automation that notifies on my home speakers that the laundry is done....
Another option is to create a binary sensor that shows if you have wet laundry in the washer. Then you can easily automate notifications from that.
template:
- triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.door_washingmachine
to: "on"
id: "off"
- trigger: state
entity_id: sensor.state_washingmachine
to: "Finished"
not_from: unavailable
id: "on"
binary_sensor:
- name: "Wet Laundry in Washer"
state: "{{ trigger.id }}"
device_class: problem
uneven lagoon
I think I'd use a timer helper for this. When the cycle finishes, start the timer. When the door is opened, cancel the timer. When the timer finishes (trigger on the timer.finished event so you only trigger when it finishes, not when it's cancelled), you can send a notification then restart the timer. The timer helper can be set up to restore its state when home assistant is restarted, too.