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Re: Home appliances integration with Crestron? #crestron

 

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On the other hand I'm a big fan of having my washer, dryer, and dishwasher send my wife and I notifications when they finish their cycles.? My washer and dryer also beep when done.? However, I might be in my shop with the door closed to keep sawdust out of the rest of the house, working in the garage, or working outside.? In those locations I would never hear the beeping.?

I simply use energy monitors on the circuits for these appliances.? I monitor the energy use in the Crestron processor and send Pushover notifications to my wife and my smart phones.? I also send announcements to the Amazon Echos in the house.?

It is a bit of a challenge to do this with energy monitoring.? The dryer is easy as it uses quite a bit of energy just to spin the drum.? The washer and dishwasher use varying amounts of energy as the go through the various portion of a cleaning cycle.? However, if you study the data you can come up with a pattern and program the crestron system to look for that pattern.? It works well and doesn't invalidate the warranty on an expensive appliance by adding relays to the circuitry.? The downside of the technique is that if the appliance gets replaced you probably have to modify your code.

I'm using a TP-Link energy monitoring smart plug for the clothes washer and a Shelly EM for the dryer and dishwasher as the energy monitors.

I also have similar notifications setup when the mail gets delivered to our mailbox at the street :-)

Hope this helps

Jay

On 8/1/2021 5:21 PM, Geoffrey Reynolds wrote:

I'm still at the point where I don't see the allure of most of these smart appliances.? I see value in something like a refrigerator or freezer being able to tell me that the temperature has gone above a threshold.? But I don't see any value in the washer or drying being able to alert me on my smartphone.? We don't let either of those run when we aren't in the house and they both make beeping or buzzing noises that let us know when they're done.? I've heard too many horror stories over the years about someone who left their dryer going and came home to their house burned to the ground.

I get the whole "the customer is paying me to do XYZ" thing though.

Geoff

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 4:31 PM Thyce : <thyce.colyn@...> wrote:
Getting washer and dryer status into the system is something I'm very interested in myself.? We are moving from a house with a washer and dryer that?for the past 21 years have been faithfully sending us a text?when they are done and flashing the lights if we are watching TV or listening to music.? Now we are moving to a house with "smart" appliances and it seems like way more work to integrate them the obvious way rather than just add a relay in parallel with the buzzer like I did to monitor the?old washer and dryer.? I've never had to worry about an update breaking things or having to cycle power to the washer to get it back online and those are some of the worries I have about maintaining a "smart" connection rather than a "dumb" relay.? ?

Let us know how you do with integrating them.??

Best of luck,
Thyce


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:38 PM Crestron_Programmer <s.marszalek11@...> wrote:
We just purchased a washer and dryer combo and both devices are on the network sending notifications. I'm sure there is a way to integrate with Alexa and have it, send notifications back the the system.

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