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I have an ESP32 running ESPresence in the laundry room, door sensors on the washer/dryer doors, and suitably-sized power monitoring for the washer/dryer outlets.

When a machine door opens, I can tell who did it (everyone always has their phone or watch on and is seen by ESPresence. Once the door is closed, the power monitoring kicks in, and when the cycle is 100% done, the AirPod Minis in the house all chime. If the door isn’t opened in ten minutes, a notification is sent to the originally detected person’s phone.

If the door hasn’t opened in 30 minutes, mom and dad get a notification ;)

What do you use to orchestrate that and send notifications? HomeAssistant? And have everyone have that on their phones?

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