Permanently retain 1-second data for very peaky devices. (Power vs Energy)

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Below is a snapshot of me playing with my garbage disposal.    As you can see the Vue it’s pretty good at capturing its usage including the startup surge most of the time (but not always).  Not bad for a 1-second sample.

The problem is that the disposal gets used for a few seconds here and there.   Its energy consumption on a daily/weekly basis is essentially zero.  From the perspective of energy usage it’s a waste of time putting one of my 16 probes on this device.

But the Vue can be used also to analyze and manage power consumption, and to learn about the behavior of various devices.   I’d like to see the kind of graph pictured below for my disposal, and my two sump pumps.

The problem is that you can only do this with data at 1-second (or better) resolution.   Since Emporia throws this out quite aggressively I never have access to it.   For the disposal I can see it by actively playing with the unit while running the app.   For the sump pumps it’s not so easy to use the Vue while the pumps are running in real time.  I need a ready supply of dozens of gallons of water to get them into active state.

My suggestion: Keep 1-second data forever.   Obviously that has storage implications but this data ought to be highly highly, I mean supremely, compressible.  Especially for very peaky devices like disposals and sump pumps that are at 0% almost all the time.     I would not even mind if you discard rather than compress most of the data but just retain some of the peaks such as pictured below.   This would aid greatly in making the Vue useful not just for Energy but also for Power monitoring and management!!

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