How far is too far with home automation? Making a dumb tumble dryer smart is great though!

Jonathan Hays

Aha!!! I’ve often thought about hooking up a pi with a motion sensor to ours. Was never sure if it would be able to sense it well enough. What did you use to do this? Love it!

Phil Bowell

how did you do this? I always forget to take my washing out the machine, this might help.

Rosemary Orchard

@philbowell I got an Aqara vibration sensor! I use the Home app to check when motion has stopped, and it runs.

Rosemary Orchard

@cheesemaker It’s actually a vibration sensor! This was just the first test, I need a few more weeks with it to be sure it works :D

Jonathan Hays

@philbowell Oh wonderful! I’m going to have to check that out. Will you be blogging more about it?

Rosemary Orchard

@cheesemaker Yes! And I’ll be talking about it on a future episode of Automators too :D

Rosemary Orchard @rosemaryorchard