Graphic display behaviors

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As a new user it is easy to be critical of features that don’t live up to what is common on more mature apps, but some things apparently have to be written up anyway. This is about how the data display appears to work and it is entirely possible that there are options that I am not aware of that would allow better control of how I see the data.

Now that I have a few days of archived data and I want to go back and review a particular incident to try to understand what was going on, the easiest way to navigate is to go to the Day view for a particular CT and slide the data to put the day of interest at the right edge of the display where I can see the date and the consumption at the top right of the window. But there is no apparent way to keep the viewed time fixed and change the view to the Hour scale, adjust it further to align with the hour of interest [then again magnify the data by switching to the Minutes scale, slide over to the event of interest and switch to the Sec scale] and observe the transient behavior of the system, moving from CT to CT while holding the same time block in the viewing window.  Recognizing that there is limited history maintained, this user interface behavior should be available down to whatever level of history is preserved in the buffer. As it is currently implemented, every time I change the CT I am looking at the display reverts to a view that is aligned with the current wall clock rather than the prior view. The only way I know of to get around this is to download the data and write some Excel macros to manipulate the data and display what I am interested in, which may be OK when I am doing analysis of trends but totally wastes my time when I am trying to deal with a recent anomoly that is reflected in transients in multiple CT traces.

In the “nice to have” category would be a query language that would allow me to write scripts to download the previous 2 hrs of data every two hours so that when you trash data that is older than 3 hours, I still have a complete record of transient behavior in my records without burdoning your storage with carrying all that extra data for longer than your committment to 3 hours.  An alternative would be to turn on a switch that schedules a 2 hr download of data every two hours for a specified period of time or until a specified wall clock time.

[emporiacs]

Thanks for the feedback and we have shared this with our app development team.  We definitely agree the UI needs improvement as it relates to remaining on the viewed time in different resolutions.  As for collecting the raw data yourself for further analysis and storage we don’t have a public API at this time. We understand that some people may want to log and analyze their data locally; however, our software, hardware, and business are developed around the collection and analytics of energy data in the cloud. You can try searching for “API” in our forums here to see what others have done.

[flyoffacliff]

I never even noticed that it reset when you switched CTs until now! I feel like a good way to implement this would be just having the graph and having checkboxes so you could check which CTs you want graphed and maybe have like up to five on the graph at the same time with different colored lines.

 

It sounds to me like maybe you want the type of data logger that electricians have.

[emporiacs]

Wonderful Idea and we certainly will pass this along to our development team.

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