How do you save in electric bills?

[ogiewon]

@jeubanks

so slap a energy meter capable device on as much as you can OR install a BrulTech GEM or TED Pro system to get whole house per circuit information then you can really start isolated WHAT is drawing the power.

I really like my IoTaWatt energy monitoring system.

IoTaWatt™ Open WiFi Electric Power Monitor

And I wrote a Hubitat Driver for it as well...

[Release] IoTaWatt Power Monitor Driver v0.1.20220723

v0.1.20230723 - Implemented new reconnect logic, that doubles the polling interval each time a subsequent communications failure occurs. This will max out at every 10 mins. Note: This version is built upon v0.1.20220103, which was a breaking change. Proceed with caution if your existing IoTaWatt Parent driver is an earlier version. v0.1.20230110 - Convert Synchronous HTTP Get call to Asynchronous HTTP Get call, and reduce the timeout from 10s to 5s. Note: This version is built upon the pr…

[jeubanks]

@signal15

The Sense won't monitor per circuit, but it discovers your devices with their machine learning models.

Last I looked Sense is cloud based and does not provide any local integration. I'm not sure they even offer an API for a cloud integration do they? I'll have to look again.

The BrulTech interface has gotten a lot better but what's even better is that it can be integrated with so you can access, use, display the data however you want. Several systems have direct plugins for BrulTech.

[aaiyar]

@jeubanks

I'm not sure they even offer an API for a cloud integration do they?

AFAIK, there is no official cloud integration API. There is an unofficial, "sanctioned" API for cloud integration.

GitHub - scottbonline/sense: Sense Energy Monitor API

[jeubanks]

@aaiyar

There is an unofficial, "sanctioned" API for cloud integration.

How do you figure this is "sanctioned"? I see no mention on the GitHub repo about any approval/endorsement by Sense at all. Just curious as that type of wording tends to mislead people when things break and API changes.

Anywho since there is a nice python module I can use that to develop a Polyglot NodeServer for ISY

[signal15]

You're right, there's no official API right now. However, they do have IFTTT integration.

Even though it relies on cloud services, I love my Sense power monitor. It's way better than the other ones that I have tried.

[aaiyar]

@jeubanks

How do you figure this is "sanctioned"?

I used sanctioned in quotes because it is widely discussed on the Sense forums with Sense team members occasionally chipping in.

[jeubanks]

@aaiyar

I used sanctioned in quotes because it is widely discussed on the Sense forums with Sense team members occasionally chipping in.

Cool... then sense is aware and hasn't taken it down which is a good sign.

[St_Isidore]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. It's helping me by giving me ideas. Appreciate it!