Re[2]: Automate the washing machine's signals???

["Pete Shew" <pete@xxxxxxx>]

This is a low tech solution I know, but you could always turn off the
washing machine yourself, maybe get the clothes out and put them in the
tumble drier or fold them up.

Pete

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On 05/01/2004 at 23:28 mailinglists@xxxxxxx wrote:

>I'd be more tempted to remove the sounder, put a extension lead on it
and
>mount it upstairs, so that *they* hear the beeping when the washing is
>done... :)
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Dean Smith [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
>  Sent: 05 January 2004 23:01
>  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Automate the washing machine's signals???
>
>
>  I know someone added a magnet to their washing machine drum - and
>positioned
>  a std alarm reed switch next to it. I forget which controller they
used
>(I
>  think it was just the Joystick port on a Homeseer PC - with the reed
>switch
>  as a "button") but its relatively easy to tell between
"Washing Machine
>On"
>  = lots of pulses and "Washing Machine Off" = No pulses. If
you go from
>the
>  former to the latter its time to signal by whatever means you want to
the
>  house thats its time to take the washing out ;-)
>
>  Dean
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Derek Erb [mailto:erb@xxxxxxx]
>  Sent: 05 January 2004 22:47
>  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: [ukha_d] Automate the washing machine's signals???
>
>
>  This is more a dream than anything else... but I would be eternally
>  grateful if anyone could come up with a solution.
>
>  My home office is downstairs in the basement.  Just across the hall
>  is the "computer room" with my servers, switches, routers
and wiring
>  frames.  On the other side of the room is the (clothes) washing
>  machine.
>
>  My family has a tendency to put on a load of washing, leave it to
>  run and just leave it until they have a sudden desire to empty it
>  and take the clothes back upstairs to dry.
>
>  The problem is this:  When the washing machine finishes it makes to
>  most obnoxious, annoying and loud beeping sound.
>
>  End_of_Wash() {
>    beep(5) times;
>    wait(12) seconds;
>    Call End_of_Wash();
>  };
>
>  You get the idea.  This thing is an endless loop of beeping.  It
>  does not stop until someone turns the damn thing off.
>
>  Is there some way, any way, to automatically transmit the signal
>  upstairs that the washing machine has finished?  I obviously want
>  this to be automated so that it also works when I'm not actually
>  working in the office as well.  I also dream of being able to
>  actually redirect the annoying beep so that goes upstairs as well...
>  but some dreams just don't come true.
>
>  As I mentioned earlier the washing machine is in the same room as
>  the wiring frame.  I have Cat5E cable all over the house with at
>  least 2 RJ45 sockets in each room.  The main electric circuit box is
>  also in this room.  Is there not some way we can hook all this up
>  and get them talking to each other?  Wireless would be wonderful but
>  I'm willing to go wired on this one...
>
>  Any and all help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and
>  delay my throttling this machine to death to the eventually great
>  dismay of my family...
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Derek Erb
>  Paris - France
>
>
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