I have a set of Samsung washer and dryer that can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings. I have no interest in making a Samsung account and having my washers and dryers communicate with anything outside of my network.
But since it has some kind of “smart” functionality, I was wondering whether anyone has been able to get this information without ever onboarding it with SmartThings?
Both machines set up their own WPA2-protected WiFi network when running.
If all you want to know is when the cycles are complete, it’s easy to do without trying to decipher Samsung’s wifi output.
The end of cycle signals on my LG washer and dryer can’t be heard in my living areas and LG smart app requires precise location permissions enabled all the time to function. Not gonna happen.
A power monitoring Zigbee plug was an easy solution for the washer but I could find nothing like that for a 220V dryer. A ZigBee vibration sensor did the trick even though the units are stacked.
Which vibration sensor do you use? I have one but it’s not very accurate.
This one: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/TS0210.html
It very accurately senses when the dryer’s running, but required some tweaking to the automation to ignore the washer’s spin cycle. What kind of sensitivity issues are you running into?
I think not. There is an integration, but it relies on the account. But my knowledge is based on some reddit posts so…
Yeah, that was as far as my own research took me as well. Thought I’d give it a shot to see if anyone had figured out how to or knew whether it was possible.
I did not buy these devices for these features at all, so no great loss, but would be nice to make use of it if I could.
What do you want to know. Two smart outlets can tell you when the cycles are and stop.
I’m not really sure what information and controls these features enable, and this is more motivated from a “They have the functionality, so I want to make use of it if I can” rather than a specific need. But things like “estimated time to finish” could be nice.
The use of smart outlets is a clever idea to get some of this information…
That’s what I do with my dumb washer and dryer. Notifications when the washer and dryer are done, and nagging reminders if the washer is done, but the system doesn’t see the dryer turn on after some time (eg the wet clothes are still in the washer). If the washer finishes, but the dryer is still running, it tells me that too, then waits for the dryer to finish before resuming the wet clothes notifications.
