Laundry IFTTT Alert

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Make laundry machines let you know when they are done, non-invasive automatic start with IFTTT
call at end of cycle.
home automation iot laundry

PROJECT INFO

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Difficulty Intermediate
Published September 16, 2017

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Hardware components:

Arduino UNO & Genuino UNO 1

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STORY

Our laundry machines are in the basement, when we remodeled our 1932 two story home, the
staircases were sound insulated. The cute chirping of our front loading machines doesn't stand a
chance of cutting through. My wife mentioned that our machines have some sort of phone
connection for servicing, she asked why can't they tell her when the cycle is complete.

That started the build.

I had a couple Wii nunchucks from a broken Wii, they have motion sensors in them. A quick web
search found an instructable http://www.instructables.com/id/Washer-Dryer-Laundry-Alarm-using-
Arudino-SMS-Text-/?ALLSTEPS using a Arduino Yun, it was quite helpful, I had an Uno with an
Ethernet card.

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That started the build, which is straightforward. morefrom a Wii Nunchuck, and a few LED's to see
4 wires
what's going on, tweak the numbers to the machine and the laundry is IFTTT connected..

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 SCHEMATICS

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Wii nunchuck supplies both motion detection and hookup for buttons.

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 CODE

Laundry Machine to IFTTT Arduino

Monitors laundry machines through discarded (or new) Wii Nunchucks. Automatically starts, monitors the cycle then fires
an IFTTT event when complete.

1 #include <Dhcp.h>
2 #include <Dns.h>
3 #include <Ethernet.h>
4 #include <EthernetClient.h>
5 #include <EthernetServer.h>
6 #include <EthernetUdp.h>
7 #include <Wire.h>
8 #include <ArduinoNunchuk.h>
9 /*
10 Washing Machine Control
11 Copyright 2016 Dan Van Fleet http://danvanfleet.com
12
13 Project URL: None Yet
14 Monitor machine for movement to automatically start, monitor cycle, send IFTTT event at end
15 Uses Wii Nunchuck for motion and buttons as manual start and cancel buttons.
16 */
17 const bool isWasherOrDryer = false ; // true for washer, false for Dryer
18 const bool isTestMode = false; // true won't fire IFTTT integration
19 const int isFastMode = 1; // used for testing divides timers by entered value. 0 or 1 runs no
20
21 const String washerIftttEventName = "WasherDone";
22 const String dryerIftttEventName = "DryerDone";
23 const String iftttKey = "PutYourIFtttKeyHere";
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 const String iftttKey = "PutYourIFtttKeyHere";
24 const char server[] = "maker.ifttt.com";
25
26 byte dryerMac[] = { 0xDA, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xEE };

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