I understand of course that I have to build flows myself, but I only saw unnecessarily complicated flows for a very simple task: watching the powerconsumption of a device/ plug over a specified period of time. The device capability app does exactly the job I wanted, so that’s great. I am now using that, so thanks to Peter!
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Thanks Peter for the app, it seems to work fine. One question: if I select power as the capability, does that mean that the number that I fill in for “Value” is automatically the corresponding Watts in units?
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And so that’s not true.
With my previous dryer, the program had several stops 15 to 24 seconds into the program. So that was just during the program.
So when the program was finished, it also seamlessly continued with the anti-crease program. So there wasn’t really an end of the program.
By monitoring the program in a log file with the time and power values figured out with help how to report the correct end time.
At almost the end of the program the machine stopped for about 24 seconds, 9 minutes later the program was finished.
So after those 24 seconds start a timer that takes 9 minutes and then report that the machine was finished.
In reality the machine was still running the anti-crease program. And had also beeped for program end but you don’t hear that downstairs.
Ah ok, maybe it’s my (old, simple) washing machine: it does have several cycles, stops and powerspikes, but at the end it goes below 3 watts and sits there for a few minutes, then ends. So I thought: watching the power, when it goes below 1 watt for a period of say at least 10 minutes to allow for the spikes and stops in the program (that don’t last for more than 10 minutes), the was is finished. Anyway, it seems to work now with the Device Capabilities app of Peter.
@Arnd_Bronkhorst If you have a washing machine that is ready with his program and using not more the X Watt for a amount of time then you can use the app Device Capabilities what @Peter_Kawa mentiond.
But when the machine usses in between some power then there is another problem.
It’s best to check what your specific device uses as unit, but pretty much always Power is measured in Watts.
You could check it in device settings for example:
The selected capability just reads out the value field indeed.
So when you want it to be, say, below 50Watts, just enter 50 as value.
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