--- title: Laundry Finished Notification | daily.dev description: A practical Home Assistant automation that sends phone notifications when the washer or dryer finishes a cycle. The setup uses two Sonoff S31 smart plugs... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laundry-finished-notification-0s2jr2o6i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laundry Finished Notification | daily.dev og:description: A practical Home Assistant automation that sends phone notifications when the washer or dryer finishes a cycle. The setup uses two Sonoff S31 smart plugs... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/laundry-finished-notification-0s2jr2o6i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0S2jR2o6i.png og:image:alt: Laundry Finished Notification og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Laundry Finished Notification **[apalrd's adventures](https://daily.dev/sources/apalrd)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical Home Assistant automation that sends phone notifications when the washer or dryer finishes a cycle. The setup uses two Sonoff S31 smart plugs flashed with Tasmota for power monitoring, with carefully tuned power thresholds (5W for 2-5 minutes for the washer, 10W for 1 minute for the dryer) to distinguish standby from active cycles. The YAML automation passes a configurable trigger ID as the notification message and supports targeting specific devices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What power threshold should I use in Home Assistant to detect when my washing machine has finished its cycle? A threshold of 5W with a minimum duration of 2 to 5 minutes works well for a washing machine. The washer's water valve draws around 8W and control electronics draw about 2W at standby, so 5W sits safely between true standby and the low-power fill/rinse phases, avoiding false triggers during quiet parts of the cycle. _Home automation builders tuning appliance detection thresholds share setups like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I ditched my $1,000 smart washer and replaced it with a $20 smart plug](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-my-1-000-smart-washer-and-replaced-it-with-a-20-smart-plug-19cdqe5rc) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house](https://daily.dev/posts/i-connected-my-dumb-appliances-to-home-assistant-and-it-felt-like-upgrading-my-whole-house-o8oswyzsu) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Smart appliances are expensive, so I made my dumb ones report when they were done instead](https://daily.dev/posts/smart-appliances-are-expensive-so-i-made-my-dumb-ones-report-when-they-were-done-instead-1t4xiwpnw) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Home Assistant waters my plants\!](https://daily.dev/posts/home-assistant-waters-my-plants--i0o9wij2e) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I automated my 20-year-old appliances with Home Assistant, and they're more reliable than anything new](https://daily.dev/posts/i-automated-my-20-year-old-appliances-with-home-assistant-and-they-re-more-reliable-than-anything-n-cubr5pmm9) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/laundry-finished-notification-0s2jr2o6i) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Laundry Finished Notification","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/laundry-finished-notification-0s2jr2o6i","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/laundry-finished-notification-0s2jr2o6i"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:55:35.739Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:33:56.460Z","description":"A practical Home Assistant automation that sends phone notifications when the washer or dryer finishes a cycle. 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