Home Assistant dishwasher and washing machine integration

This video was inspired by post by one of channel members on Discord (thanks GrayWolf) where he used Node-red to track status of washing machine and detergent usage. In this video we will use only internal Home Assistant tools and integrations to do the same - track status of washing machine (start and end) plus usage of detergent tablets/pods.
For status of machines we will be using power monitoring and in my case it will be done with Shelly Plug S.

Home Assistant integration:
⏵ https://www.home-assistant.io/integra...

My GitHub repository:
⏵ https://github.com/BeardedTinker/Home...
⏵ https://github.com/BeardedTinker/Home...

00:00 Intro
00:21 Thank you to channel members
00:33 Options for "integration"
01:50 Differences in power consumption
04:31 Should you automate those machines?
05:37 What can we do with information we have
07:09 Detergent stock info
08:44 Creating prerequisites with helpers
09:14 Counter helpers
10:28 Input boolean helpers
11:19 Power monitoring prerequisites
11:36 Creating automation
14:28 Tracking status of devices
15:15 Managing detergent stock
16:23 What else can you do?
17:07 Wrapping up the video

You can add notifications when dishwasher/washing machine is done, notifications when you need to clean it or event use internal Shopping list integration to add it to your list.

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BeardedTinker

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