Coffee machine monitoring fails.

[tulip palm]

I tried to monitor the amount of cups of coffee of my Dolce Gusto coffee machine. Attached three examples of the power usage of the powerplug used. Where there are two red blocks, it means two cups used, (milk and coffee) for 1 cup of coffee and four blocks for two cups of coffee.
I tried the help of Copilot, (yes I know), but it didn't provide solid working code. Either it counts nothing of too few/many cups of coffee.
What I would like is the right count of cups of coffee.
This is the yaml-code I used : https://dpaste.org/kpGop
Hope someone is willing to help me out.

[primal marten]

doing this by power consumption is going to be rough and not consistent. I remember looking at the power stuff a while back on a different (but similar in concept) machine.

you may be better off tracking by some other means. perhaps a pod holder with a built in thing so it triggers when you pull a pod out?

[primal marten]

or... assuming that your coffee size is consistent you could use a level sensor on the water tank? then you can see how much the level goes down by and calculate cups based on that?

if you have a water level sensor you can also automate on it needing to be refilled and get a notification by some means.

[tulip palm]

Yes, I was already afraid there wasn't a good way to do it by power. I will have a look at your suggestions👍! Thanks!