Part of the reason I paid for the lifetime service was to support the company - my experience w/the device has been very good, and I felt like $50 was a tiny add-on compared to the benefits (leaks caught very quickly) I had received so soon.
What "challenges" do you see w/the integration? It has been working w/out issue for me since some reporting weirdness during the recent HE FW beta were resolved.
I'm very happy w/the Flume 2 and the integration and would do it all again. I'd set it up and enable the integration, and give the Flume 1 to your kids and let them fight over it.
That was a reporting issue more than anything else, resolved by me adjusting my reporting settings but I think more affected by changes in the recent HE FW release.
I've had zero issues w/my hub or Flume actual functioning.
I haven't tried it yet either. It's pretty new, and it wasn't clear whether it was going to be an additional subscription or not.
Based on how they described it, I assumed they had done a bunch of sampling of known use cases and are planning to use ML to analyze based on the signature of usage. Like maybe a toilet tends to be one big swoosh, while a shower is a long steady flow, while sprinklers look like repeated long steady flows. Just a guess on how it will work.
Also, this type of functionality is really only possible in a cloud implementation because of the amount of data and computing that are necessary for the analysis.
I did the 30 day trial, and canceled .. I may do the lifetime because its 1 and done, and gets me better features when/if they release it. As @tomw mentioned, they guess at the usage, and then you do surveys to increase its knowledge of the usage. Its pretty generic (shower, outdoor, washer, etc) ... I didnt find it useful, and it often miscategorized things as outside, when there was def. no outside activity
I am somewhat confused. All I want to do is monitor my irrigation system for leaks in the main line before it attaches to my irrigation pump. In the past, my input line to my irrigation pump has popped off (long story) and was free flowing in a location not easily noticed. Can I use this device to monitor if water is flowing when it should not be?
As long as you have a water meter that's compatible with the Flume system then yes, you could put the Flume on your main water meter and if water is flowing through the irrigation part of your system when water should not be flowing you could be notified.
There isn't a local option for the Flume device, unfortunately. Their cloud has been reliable in my experience, though -- at least more reliable than my internet connection at home. There was only one outage (that I know of) in the two years that I have had the Flume device in my system.
Mine has been stable as well.. Note: I really do NOT like relying on cloud services and might change if a comparable local solution appears but it works so am good for now.
Same as both above, but the Flume has been very reliable and for now I'm going to stick with it. If a totally local solution did show up I would defintely look into it.
Strange...my leak is gone again. This is the second time I've had a leak that disappears after a while. I had been turning the front yard valve off after running water cycles that I needed to run. A couple days ago I forgot to shut it off, and noticed today that I hadn't gotten any leak notifications.
Really weird. The leak is between the front yard control valve and the individual irrigation valves for the front yard. I know this because turning off the back yard control valve (which get its water from the front yard system) doesn't stop the leak.
I know the front yard individual irrigation control valves aren't leaking as I've inspected them carefully.
I am starting to suspect an infestation of garden trolls. Damn little buggers...
The thing is, the front yard irrigation control solenoids are all closed on the front irrigation valves, and the leak still would continue. Listening carefully at each valve, no sound, inspecting them carefully, no water leaking from them, dug down a bit below each one an no wet spots. Turn off the front master and the leak stops. So it does not look like a leak at the valves, but a leak between the front yard master valve and the front yard irrigation valves. That seem logical or am I missing something?
