Anyone successfully use vibration sensors to notify when laundry is done?

So I was hoping to get this working… but I don’t see a way to be notified when vibration stops?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks!

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You can emulate this feature by creating 3 automations:

First automation (called Shake 1)
WHEN vibration detected
THEN

  1. Enable automation “Shake finished”
  2. Enable automation “Shake 2”
  3. Delay 10min
  4. Disable automation “Shake 2”

Second automation (Shake 2)
WHEN vibration detected
THEN

  1. Disable automation “Shake 1”
  2. Delay 5s
  3. Enable automation “Shake 2”

Note: disabling an automation cancels it if it has “delay” action. So this automation basically prevents “Shake 1” from disabling “Shake 2” if the washing machine is still vibrating.

Third automation (Shake finished)
WHEN “Shake 2” is disabled
THEN
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Note: remember to check “trigger once” in case of this third automation to prevent multiple notifications.

This third automation is triggered when the “Shake 1” can finally disable “Shake 2” after the delay, which means that “Shake 2” did not interrupt it (so vibrating stopped basically).

It might be tricky to set up, because the Aqara app won’t let you save empty automations. So you need to make “draft” versions with different actions (like turning on the light) and then editing it to make it correct.

I was able to setup those automations with my Aqara Cube to test if it would detect when I stopped shaking it.