I have a magnetic Zigbee vibration sensor on my washer and dryer connected to Home Assistant. I hadn't thought of monitoring smart outlet current/voltage instead, that's a good idea too.
That's how I do it. I have a smart plug on the washer dryer and the power consumption gets sent via MQTT to Node-RED where some simple monitoring and trigger conditions update a dashboard and send an email to myself when the washing machine starts and when it stops. That's good enough for our needs.
The machine does have an app and Bluetooth, but I can't see the point of spending the time reverse engineering the protocol, and the app is never going to be activated on my phone because it wants access to camera, sound, phone and my contacts list.
The machine does have an app and Bluetooth, but I can't see the point of spending the time reverse engineering the protocol, and the app is never going to be activated on my phone because it wants access to camera, sound, phone and my contacts list.
Edit: It seems some integration work has been done for HA: https://github.com/home-assistant-HomeWhiz/home-assistant-Ho...