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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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@shortwavesurfer You are exactly right. I like the Third Reality vibration sensor because it gives you a nice ability to tweak the sensitivity. Also, in Home Assistant I use a helper to sample the sensor over a second or two and compute the median. This eliminates a lot of spurious detections. Like any detector, there is always a tradeoff between false alarms and missed detections. This sensor has a nice sweet spot that is not hard to dial in.
I haven't, as of yet, gotten into helpers. But, for something like this, I probably will.
I also intend to put a couple of them on my washer and dryer.