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Heya! Thanks for pointing this out. I've loaded these pages so often (and mostly from local) and lost sight of the terribly large images. I've compressed both of them for a smoother experience.

I wanted to be alerted when long-running processes on my home-lab completed.

This is one of the most bodgy things I've come across and I love it! Did you end up replacing it with something else?

It wasn't inspired but thanks for the link! If I had known of the device notification integration, I would have just used that instead of trying to roll my own logic :D

Coincidental. Probably a case of this being one of the simpler solutions to implement. Convergent problem solving? (like how in evolution different species can converge on the same trait?)

Mainly this. The project taught me a lot, was a good way to have material to work further on my blogging skills and will hopefully lay a foundation for more interesting projects in the future.

We did look into such dryers as well but my girlfriend and I wanted to use our ecocheques and we also wanted a cheap dryer that just got the job done. The nearest smart dryer was at least a 100 euros more expensive.

And it ended up being a fun project for me ^.^

That might be a smarter way to do it! Right now I have this thing where if we don't unload the dryer it does a sort of warming cycle every 20 minutes or so. And that triggers another alert. We don't mind because that just means we _should_ unload the dryer to stop it from consuming more power.

But I suppose the countdown approach would still trigger the same thing. I suppose if I didn't really want the extra alerts I should be monitoring the duration of power consumption and exclude the ones that are of a shorter duration.

I might try the countdown approach for something different and see what results I get. Thanks for the idea!

I got tired of my dryer being dumb.