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Outsmarting my lying washing machine
(lemmy.nocturnal.garden)
The washing machine tells me how long it's going to take when I start it, but it's often wrong and takes longer. I've been descending into the basement countless times, usually from the first floor, only to notice it's not done yet.
This is just a small thing but I want to share anyways: I just plugged it in a Zigbee plug with power meter and put an entity icon into the default dashboard. It's conditional and only shows up when power!=0.0.
No more pointless stairs!
I have moved it next to the basement temperature but it's not running right now and I don't want to forge the screenshot so it's showing before the change.
Little fun fact I've picked up about washing machines often giving "wrong" times. These are estimates and they regularly change throughout the washing cycle.
Especially right before the spinning program starts, the machine needs to carefully adjust the weight inside of it, so that the unbalance does not do any damage.
Yeah they are, they just seem to be the absolute optimistic minimum which applies if you barely put anything in.
Had a very annoying case where I checked it 20 minutes after the supposed end, came back after another 30 and it still said 20. Took over an extra hour eventually (it was super stuffed admittedly).