Automation Templates

Automation templates

Templates are Home Assistant blueprints for WashData (0.5.9+). Each one becomes a normal Home Assistant automation: you can edit it, switch it off, and see its traces like any other. The automation does the switching.

Important

The template library is downloaded from GitHub, so it only works with online features on (gear menu > Online & Community). With them off, the Automations tab shows administrators a button to turn them on.

The templates live in their own repository, washdata-automations.

Install

Open the panel's Automations tab and pick your appliance. Templates that suit its type are listed, each with its author.

• Add to (appliance) (administrators): installs the template, creates and saves the automation for your appliance with the default settings, and opens it in Home Assistant's editor to adjust.
• Set up in Home Assistant (templates with a setting that has no default, such as which light to use): installs it and opens Home Assistant's blueprint list; pick it there and fill in the form.
• Details: the full description, what you can set, the YAML, and links to GitHub and My Home Assistant.

New templates appear without a WashData update. A template you installed earlier keeps working; a different copy shows Other version installed, and its button offers to replace it.

Available now

Template	For	What it does
End a long dryer anti-crease phase	dryers, washer-dryers	After the program finishes, waits 20 min, then switches the plug off in a low-power moment between tumbles and back on after 10 s. Optionally only switches back on when someone is home. A new cycle cancels it. (#478)
Turn something on while a cycle runs	all	Turns a light, switch or helper on at the start and off at the end, also after a false start.

The anti-crease template switches a relay while the dryer is plugged in. Use it only with a plug rated for your dryer.

Share your own

Use Share your own template at the bottom of the tab: it opens GitHub's editor in washdata-automations with a starting template; saving it opens the pull request form. The rules are in its CONTRIBUTING. Build on WashData's triggers (see Notifications-and-Events).