Setting awake with Fibaro plugs

Questions & Help
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I use two Fibaro power plugs to measure if the phones of my partner and me are connected to the power outlet next to the bed. The purpose is obvious: setting the sleep state.

Setting asleep is no problem, because I know what the power use is when the phone starts charging.

When the phone is fully charged, its power use is intermittently 0 W and something slightly higher (say 0,2 W). These.values change every few seconds.

I would like to set the awake status when the phone is taken off the charger. Is there a way to create a flow that sets the status to awake when the power use is 0 W for, for instance, 60 seconds?

Any other great ideas are welcome as well, of course!

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Few methods that cross my mind. One of them is by using the Countdown and Better Logic apps.
Someone here created a very nice post of how to get a notification when the washing machine is done. This and with very minor modifications can help in your case. Get a notification when the washingmachine is ready

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Could’t get that to work as i wanted.
i noticed that when you unlock your phone, it starts using energy again. so my flow goes:

  • IF energy has changed

  • AND the time is between 05:30 - 09:30

  • AND energy is greater than 0.5 Watt

  • THEN turn off sleep mode

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Interesting! I’m going to try that tonight!

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Also interesting! Problem is that my partner works in different shifts, so I can’t really work with time in this one. :frowning:
I will post the solution that does the job for me in this topic later.

Great ideas are still welcome of course!

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I use IFTTT there is a option: if Phone is on/of power.
Works like a charm.

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@Hugo thanks for you suggestion, but being heavy phone users, our phones are being charged everywhere; at work, in the car, using power banks, so Homey would think we were sleeping all day. :wink:

I have solved the problem though, thanks to the suggestion of @danone and the washing machine solution of @Rocodamelshekima.

The intermittent changing of the phone’s used power when fully charged is happening a few times per minute. I do not mind a one minute delay when changing my status to ‘awake’, so I solved it this way:

I have created a countdown timer for 60 seconds, that starts running every time the power use of the charger changes AND is 0 W.
Every time the power use changes AND is higher than 0 W, the timer is stopped. This happens multiple times per minute from the moment the phone is fully charged.
When the phone is disconnected, the used power will stay at 0 W, so the timer will keep counting down to 0.
When the timer is at 0, my status is set to awake.

I did use The Countdown App, created a timer TimerDennis and TimerPartner and created three flows per person:

Dennis Phone Power <> 0
When the power changed
And Timer running TimerDennis
And Power is not exactly 0
Then Stop countdown timer TimerDennis

Dennis Phone Power = 0
When the power changed
And Power is exactly 0
And Timer not running TimerDennis
Then Start countdown timer TimerDennis 60

Dennis gets up
When Timer reaches zero (0) TimerDennis
Then mark Dennis awake

And, of course, I created the same set of flows for my partner.

I am not a programmer, so I probably could do things far more efficient, if so, I’m always happy to learn!

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