Some suggestions for the App: clearer handling of units

[jj613]

1. Use a different graph style, eg use line graphs, or just any stylistic difference, when showing instant/average measurements (seconds or minutes) versus cumulative ones (longer periods).
2. On the home screen display the unit of measure more clearly.  I believe Seconds and Minute is average (vs cumulative) in the Home screen but it’s not obvious..
3. On the home screen show Watts, not KW for seconds and minutes.  Show KWh for longer periods.
4. Allow devices to be grouped and shown with subtotals in the home screen, and as stacked bars in the graph.    This will help a lot with 1) unbalanced 2-pole circuits like my combination washer/dryer 2) grouping similar things, eg all Air Conditioners.
5. Allow two devices to be marked as a 2-pole pair and THE APP SHOULD TELL ME if they are balanced so I can recover one sensor for something else.
6. More granular time measurements would be great for lots of devices … pumps, igniters, etc.   Could you do better than 1 second???

[Emporia Support]

Hello @jj613, sorry for the delay in our response.   Thanks for taking the time to provide such detailed feedback and while I’m at it for being such an active contributor to our forum.   We are doing our best to keep up!

1. We are planning on a major app overall to address many requested improvements but also the overall look and feel to the app.   Some of this will be released in the near term, with the major released over this  planned later this summer.
2. seconds and minute is an average, I have sent this onto the app team to see if they can change.
3. This is part of a larger effort to allow customers to set the ‘scale’.
4. Aggregation, nesting, combining multiple Vue’s and circuits is already being worked on.   Expecting this to be released soon.
5. This is a new request, great idea.
6. We sample a lot more than 1 second, but currently combine that into a 1 second reading.   We don’t’ have any planned changes to the granularity of the measurements and have forwarded on.

Adam

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jj613

Again, great ideas.

Adam

thanks for the update.

[Guru Meditation No. 42]

If it isn’t already included in the update, please fix the tick marks on the vertical scaling so it is somewhat sensible… it should be in integer units or normal fractions thereof, not “0.72, 1.44, 2.16”, etc.  The current view makes it very difficult to estimate the magnitude of changes in the graph.  It would also be nice if the scaling could be locked, so it doesn’t jump around as you scroll back in time.

[Paczada]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I would like to see the lines in the Graphs to be multi-colored for the different circuits.</p>
That way I can see which circuits were contributing to the total. If I see 5.6 kw being used, it would be nice to see which circuits made up that total in the Graphs view of “Main.”

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