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Access to Samsung washers and dryers in HA without SmartThings? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a set of Samsung washer and dryer that can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings. I have no interest in making a Samsung account and having my washers and dryers communicate with anything outside of my network.

But since it has some kind of "smart" functionality, I was wondering whether anyone has been able to get this information without ever onboarding it with SmartThings?

Both machines set up their own WPA2-protected WiFi network when running.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If all you want to know is when the cycles are complete, it's easy to do without trying to decipher Samsung's wifi output.

The end of cycle signals on my LG washer and dryer can't be heard in my living areas and LG smart app requires precise location permissions enabled all the time to function. Not gonna happen.

A power monitoring Zigbee plug was an easy solution for the washer but I could find nothing like that for a 220V dryer. A ZigBee vibration sensor did the trick even though the units are stacked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which vibration sensor do you use? I have one but it’s not very accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This one: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/TS0210.html

It very accurately senses when the dryer's running, but required some tweaking to the automation to ignore the washer's spin cycle. What kind of sensitivity issues are you running into?