[JadedBlueEyes]

Nex is a cybersecurity student in a house of similar people, they're gonna take every way :3

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> The plan is, in future, since we can't hack something that doesn't have a brain, to instead attach a brain to it. The dishwasher is easy, we can just whack that on a smart plug and monitor when the power use surges and drops. The dryer is a bit more difficult, since they pull a LOT of power, and smart plugs typically either don't support that much power, or are incredibly expensive. So that's likely going to be some fancy vibration sensor-based thingy

[drng]

Vibration sensor is exactly what I did, for exactly that reason. Zigbee sensor + home assistant and a little bit of timer logic to manage the state

[ahoef]

Shelly has power meters with clamps, so that the meter is not in-line. There are probably Zigbee variants out there.