Thanks for the re-upvote. My guess is it was someone who sets timers on their phone. 😂
Dammit, now you've got my head swimming with ways to improve the washing machine stuff. I bet a vibration sensor on top could be combined with the smart plug power monitoring to detect when it's being emptied.
How did you do the Google-turning-on-the-smartplug thing? I feel like I'm missing a lot of tricks by not having HA integrated into those. I just use them for audible notifications currently.