Hello,
I’ve recently started to try and do some more exotic things with the Vera, and one particularly useful ‘feature’ would be for alerts to be generated when the dryer has finished. Frustratingly, the Vera has once again shown that it falls annoyingly short on some fundamental, basic areas.
I used a watt meter to monitor the dryer when its in use, and basically it uses anywhere between about 280W to 2.7kW when in use. I created a scene that simply sent me an alert when the dryers usage went below 200W. However, either by design or a bug an alert is sent when a change in wattage occurs, and it ends up below 200W. To be clear, the wattage does not need to first go above 200W for the scene to trigger. This is a problem because the dryer typically uses 0W when its not in use, but every once in a while it will jump to 1W on standby, causing the scene to trigger. This is annoying as I don’t think that logic would ever be useful.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can achieve the functionality I want? I figured another method to do it if it’s possible, is to set some global variable, or a custom device variable when the dryer usage goes above 200W (on). When it drops below 200W (off), check to see if that variable is set. If so, send the alert. If not, its a false trigger and ignore.
Thank you for your help