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Recipe · v1.0.0 · Released Jul 9, 2026

LG Washer: Cycle Finished

Sends a Home Assistant push notification the moment your LG washer finishes, so the wet load moves to the dryer before it starts to smell. Add a speaker and it announces the finished cycle out loud. Built around the LG ThinQ integration.

A wash load forgotten in the drum turns musty within hours and often needs running again, wasting water, power, and time. Your LG washer reports its progress as the Current status sensor, which changes to Done when the cycle finishes. This recipe watches for that and sends a push notification, so you move the load into the dryer while it is still fresh.

How it works

During install, Selora AI generates a Home Assistant automation from the washer’s status sensor. When the status changes to complete, it sends a push notification. There are no timers or guesses: the notification fires on the washer’s own “done” signal.

Announcing on a speaker

A push notification is easy to miss if your phone is on silent or in another room. During install you can optionally pick one or more speakers, and the same alert is announced out loud over text to speech in addition to the notification, so “the washer has finished” reaches the room. Leave the speaker selection empty and the recipe stays notification-only. To add or change speakers later, reinstall the recipe and adjust the selection.

Picking the right sensor

The Current status sensor exists on several LG appliances (washer, dryer, dishwasher, and more). If you have more than one LG appliance in Home Assistant, the install wizard may list a status sensor for each, pick the washer’s.

Files Selora AI's pipeline reads to install this recipe. The manifest declares roles, inputs, and integrations; the package files are Jinja-templated YAML applied to Home Assistant.

# Washer Cycle Finished — notify when the LG washer's wash cycle completes,
# so the wet load gets moved to the dryer before it starts to smell.
#
# The LG ThinQ integration exposes a "Current status" sensor
# (ThinQProperty.CURRENT_STATE) whose raw state becomes a completion key
# (complete / done / end / running_end, all shown as "Done"/"Finished") when
# a cycle finishes; which key depends on the model. The recipe resolves that
# sensor (scoped to lg_thinq, matched by name) and notifies on the
# transition to any of those completion states.
# An optional ``announce_speakers`` role also speaks the alert over TTS.
#
# Note: the current-status sensor exists on several LG appliance types
# (washer, dryer, dishwasher, ...), so on a multi-appliance home the wizard
# may list more than one — the homeowner picks the washer's.
slug: washer-cycle-finished
version: 1.0.0
title: "LG Washer: Cycle Finished"
tagline: Get a push notification the moment your LG washer finishes, so the wet load moves to the dryer before it starts to smell.
description: >-
  Sends a Home Assistant push notification when the LG washer's cycle
  finishes, so you move the load to the dryer promptly instead of
  rediscovering a musty load hours later. Add one or more speakers and it
  also announces the finished cycle out loud. Reads the washer's own status
  from the LG ThinQ integration.
author: Selora AI
released: "2026-07-09"
min_integration_version: "0.12.0"
tags: [laundry, washer, lg-thinq, notifications]
roles:
  # "Current status" run-state sensor. Scoped to lg_thinq and matched on
  # name. Single-select, required. The current-status sensor is shared
  # across LG appliance types, so the homeowner picks the washer's when
  # more than one is offered.
  - id: status_sensor
    title: Washer status sensor
    kind: sensor
    integration: lg_thinq
    match: "current[ _]st"
    min_count: 1
    max_count: 1
    selection: required
    description: >-
      The washer's "Current status" sensor from the LG ThinQ integration.
      If you have more than one LG appliance, pick the washer's.
  # Announcement speakers — optional. When the homeowner picks at least one
  # media player, the recipe also speaks the alert over TTS in addition to
  # the push notification. Leave empty for notification-only.
  - id: announce_speakers
    title: Announcement speakers
    kind: media_player
    min_count: 0
    selection: required
    description: >-
      Optional. Speakers that announce the finished cycle out loud over TTS
      in addition to the push notification. Leave empty to be notified on
      your phone only.
inputs:
  # TTS engine entity for the optional spoken announcement. Auto-resolved by
  # the ``tts_engine`` resolver from the home's configured tts.* entities
  # (picking whichever TTS engine the home has configured) — the wizard
  # never shows this field. ``tts.speak`` works without a paid Home
  # Assistant Cloud subscription. The resolver returns an empty string when
  # the home has no TTS engine; the template then skips the announcement and
  # stays notification-only. The default below is only used by the offline
  # recipe-validation gate, which has no resolver to run; at install the
  # resolver always overwrites it.
  - id: tts_engine
    type: string
    label: Text-to-Speech engine
    description: >-
      Speech engine entity used for the spoken announcement. Resolved
      automatically from the Text-to-Speech engines configured in Home
      Assistant.
    resolver: tts_engine
    default: "tts.piper"
package_files:
  - package/automations/cycle_finished.yaml.j2
{# Washer Cycle Finished — notify when the "Current status" sensor reaches a
   completion state (displayed as "Done"/"Finished"). HA stores the raw enum
   key as the state, and different LG models emit different completion keys
   (complete / done / end / running_end), so the trigger lists them all
   rather than matching the translated label. ``not_from`` drops the
   unavailable/unknown -> completion transition the integration emits when it
   reconnects with a stale finished state, so a reconnect after a restart
   never fires a phantom cycle-finished alert. When the homeowner picked
   speakers, the same alert is announced over TTS.

   mode: single — one completion per cycle. Templates stay on single quoted
   lines so trim_blocks can't swallow following YAML. #}
automation:
  - id: selora_recipe_{{ slug | replace('-', '_') }}_cycle_finished
    alias: "LG Washer Cycle Finished — move to dryer"
    description: >-
      When the washer's status changes to complete, send a push
      notification and, if speakers are configured, announce it.
    mode: single
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: {{ roles.status_sensor[0] }}
        not_from:
          - "unknown"
          - "unavailable"
        to:
          - "complete"
          - "done"
          - "end"
          - "running_end"
    action:
      # 1. Push notification to every device registered with HA.
      - service: notify.notify
        data:
          title: "Washer finished"
          message: "The washer has finished. Move the load to the dryer before it starts to smell."
{% if roles.announce_speakers and inputs.tts_engine %}
      # 2. Optional spoken announcement on the configured speakers, via the
      #    auto-resolved TTS engine. tts.speak works without a Home Assistant
      #    Cloud subscription; the speakers go in media_player_entity_id.
      - service: tts.speak
        target:
          entity_id: {{ inputs.tts_engine }}
        data:
          media_player_entity_id:
{% for player in roles.announce_speakers %}
            - {{ player }}
{% endfor %}
          message: "The washer has finished. Time to move the laundry to the dryer."
{% endif %}

Author-maintained release notes. Each release of the recipe lists what changed.

Changelog

v1.0.0 - 2026-07-09

Initial release.

  • Sends a Home Assistant push notification when the LG washer’s Current status sensor reaches complete (Done).
  • Optionally announces the finished cycle over TTS on one or more speakers; leave the speaker selection empty to stay notification-only.
  • Fires on the washer’s own completion signal, no timers or estimates.
  • Built around the LG ThinQ integration.

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