Hello and thanks for this tutorial!
Is it possible to remotely start a machine that isn’t connected?
I can monitor the cycles, but I don’t know how to start the machine remotely without using the delayed start.
Thanks
Hello,
No, that’s not possible, you can’t interact with the buttons of your washing machine 
The only solution for me is a washing machine that is already connected via the manufacturer’s solution.
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That’s what I feared, unfortunately 
Thank you very much anyway for your quick reply.
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You might think you can use this: Tuya zigbee finger bot plus smart fingerbot schalter knopfs chieber smart life timer sprach steuerung funktioniert mit alexa google assistent - AliExpress 13
But it’s still a big ugly hack ^^
And on some machines you still have to turn a knob to select the program 
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For your information, I’m keeping the tutorial for historical purposes with the cost section, but with the release of version 4.66 which includes energy monitoring, it is much easier to integrate the washing machine’s cost:
So I personally removed the entire cost section to use the tracking with the new energy monitoring integration:
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The idea is to detect when the machine starts by some method x or y and, by that same method x or y, detect when it stops 
I’m trying to get back to it quickly but I can’t promise anything 
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And since then there’s the Si Alors Sinon action that was added to Gladys even though it didn’t exist when @prohand wrote it, so it does indeed make a few changes to this tutorial 
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I have a scene that does that!
I simply make a trigger « Device state change » on the power in W of my washing machine:
I ran tests, and as soon as the power used drops below 4 W for at least 3 minutes, that means the machine has finished!
Test on your machine if these thresholds work, because some machines have pauses in the cycle and potentially 3 minutes is not enough, or 4 W is too much / too little, you’ll need to fine-tune.
You can look at the power curve during a cycle!
Then, in the scene, I simply have a message block:
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Ah perfect,
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Thanks, I’ll try. I had tried some things, but I think I had forgotten something because I didn’t receive anything at the end 
Just so you know, I added sending an MQTT message on my side to get the information on the dashboard:
And a complete scene that indicates when it starts, with only a change in the « Device state change » trigger — it’s set to « greater » instead of « less ».
But you have to do that first, right?
To summarize:
Creation of this in the MQTT integration:
Creation of the 1st scene:
Creation of the second scene:
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However, we agree that for starting the washing machine, we don’t need to receive the message that it’s finished, or did I misunderstand that part?
It’s as you wish for the message 
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