[grahamk]

My spa panel has an additional circuit I’d like to measure separately – monitoring at the main is hot tub + additional circuit.  It would nice if the app allowed you to add or subtract CT values. That might be the eventual reason to inject the data into my homeseer home automation – I could do math on it there.

[grahamk]

Yeah, i think it is the 220v hot tub line, I put one CT on it before realizing that it uses the two legs differently. Kind of disappointing because i had to run extensions for the CTs out to my hot tub subpanel which was kind of a PITA and now I need to run another one.

[grahamk]

I use homeseer and am also very “non cloud” biased.

As soon as someone tells me what the competing product is that is not cloud based and cost effective they will certainly get my attention. I have been using z-wave power monitors that cost about $100 each and have 2 leads and a controller that is very bulky and requires individual power. Compare that to a vue with 16 leads  with one power source and one controller instead of 8 for less than $200 and the fact that I need over 36 leads to correctly monitor my house and  I’m going to drop my “no cloud” mantra for this particular application.  🙂

I hope for an API and that seems to be on the roadmap. I have tried a couple github projects and I can get the data, but creating a plugin for homeseer isn’t really on my radar.

 

[grahamk]

My name is Graham and I’m a power-aholic. I live near Idaho Springs, CO.

I have been monitoring power using homeseer home automation and a couple of Aeotec z-wave power monitors. Mainly I have been using this to be able to alert when my house goes on or off generator power – we have a whole house generator with automatic transfer switch – that has been working well.

Our utility bill just hit about $400 a month and I tried aligning it with the data I get from the zwave monitors and could not even get close. So it seemed like it was time to get serious about monitoring power. The first thing the Vue tipped me off to is that my zwave monitors were reporting bad data due to a parameter I had failed to set. That was job #1 and I’m quite happy with just that.

Now a month later I have 3 vues and a 4 smart plugs in place (LOL)  and I feel I have a better handle on what is happening in my house. Next step is to carefully map each breaker and what it is powering (my house is older and has ~36 circuits and the breakers for the most part are very badly labeled).

Unfortunately what I am finding is that my power is widely distributed over a lot of different things with no real smoking gun other than the hot tub, which I pretty much already knew, but now I can put a dollar amount on it for my lovely accountant.

But time is money – and now I know where the most of the power is going, I’m not guessing, and I’m not wasting my time “trying things” with little to no result and a monthly bill being my only guide.

Glad to join this community.

 

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