Speaking of automations, I’d connected my dishwasher to a smart power plug quite a while ago with the intention of having it send me an update whenever a load finished, but I had not managed to build something that could do so in a reliable and timely manner.

Thankfully, someone has built and released a custom integration for Home Assistant that promises to do just that!

Here is a YouTube video about it.

And here is the integration itself.

I set this up before I’d even finished watching the video, now to see if it will learn the cycles correctly, assuming it does I may well set it up for my washing machine and dryer as well :)

Currently listening: John Carpenter - “Assault on Precinct 13 Theme”