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!

Screenshot from a dashboard, showing some entities like temperature etc

Screenshot from the same dashboard, with an additional yellow icon showing its currently using 53W

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.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    240v power makes this better, because it means the starting current is exponentially lower for the same torque. It’s mostly a American/Japanese problem.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        24 hours ago

        Is it not? I thought doubling the voltage would quarter the amperage, or am I derping? Do I mean “polynomially”?

        • ftbd@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          Yes, in that case the dependence is quadratic, a special case of polynomial

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yep, American here. No running appliances with motors on my 120V smart plugs.

      I used to use a lot of CloudFree, but I moved and most of my smart home stuff is now in a box somewhere. It’s not really been practical to set any of it up. Long story.