Looking for recommendations on an energy monitor

Webcore has graphing capability. Don't think it does pie graphs. You can do time graphs.

I have a Aeotec HEM V2, I have moved it from Iris, to ST, to now HE. It only shows total house usage, Below is a graph of my total house power usage, using webcore, for the last 24 hours.

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Can somebody help me get this setup? I'm not a programmer by no means I thought webcore took programming skills.

You can use @bptworld 's quick chart... Available in hubitat package manager. Has several different charts in it. Or you can use influxdb/grafana. There is a step by step here on the board.

I only tried WebCoRE when I used SmartThings, and never used it to create a graph.

But I can say with certainty that a knowledge of computer programming is not required to use WebCoRE. Since I don’t know how to code at all :slightly_smiling_face:.

If I use quick chart then how do I View the chart?

Use the instructions in the thread linked below. Post any additional questions about Quick Chart in that thread.

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Is the Wiser Energy Smart Home Monitor any good?

Should go whit the emporia Vue Gen v2?

This is a rebranded Sense. Schneider Electric has a very heavy investment in Sense.

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I was thinking about Sense. How does it work whit hubitat?
I need Total power usage and eat individual appliance use.
But I would be guessing on which breaker is which appliance breaker box is not labeled correctly.

Hi. Another Sense user here. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a Hubitat integration.

FYI I also use Home Assistant, which has a Sense integration. I'm testing routines that look at my solar production to determine setpoints for my two thermostats. My goal is to use solar power when available (and when grid power is expensive) to run my two heat pumps. It would be so much easier with only one heat pump to control!
I'm thinking of making a longer post once I think things are working well.

Best wishes!

I bought the sense rebranded by Schneider electric last night on eBay. How would I integrate it into hubitat now is there a custom driver. I'm not good with Linux commands and setting stuff up on a raspberry pi is not my strength it is my weakness.

As @doug_phoenix said above there is no Hubitat integration, you would have to set it up in home assistant and then bring that into HE via virtual switches.

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That highlights that there's no direct integration with HE and that folks are bringing it into HE through Home Assistant.

So, you would need a device to run Home Assistant (just setting it up can be cumbersome), then setup the integration in Home Assistant, and then use something like [RELEASE] Home Assistant Device Bridge (HADB) to get the data into HE. Or just leave it in Home Assistant and run dual systems for reporting/monitoring.

Or return it and get the Iotawatt.

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This.

Why let some proprietary AI guess about your energy usage when you could actually measure it? And integrate directly with Hubitat locally over your LAN.

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Cancel your order or return it ASAP and get Iotawatt.
I was using Sense for about a year+ and finally replaced it with Iotawatt. I am in the apartment complex. I tried Sense only because it was not easy to install something in the electric box. Sense is an expensive trash. In addition Sense has no integration with HE but Iotawatt has a very nice HE driver(s).

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I wouldn't call it trash, but don't count on device detection to work very well. If the price was right, I would keep it. While device detection is hit and miss, the whole home data is valuable and you get a decent app and UI with no effort on your part. If you do keep it, i would recommend getting a couple Kasa smart plugs to play around with as well.

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And extremely accurate.

SenseLink permits energy data from other smart plugs to be used as well.

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I’m going to differ, but agree at the same time. I have Sense and three Aeotec v1 HEMs. I was advised by many not to buy Sense, but after purchasing, returning and then buying again, I’m satisfied with it.

For anything that I want instant and 100% reliable reading to indicate the on/off state of a dumb appliance, I use one of the clamps from one of the Aeotec v1 HEMs.

For overall energy use and easy tracking with historical data (and a few individual devices that it has been able to reliably identify), I use Sense. I also own the solar version, which can track Solar production, but I don’t have solar panels. I instead configured the extra included clamps to track my EVSE consumption. That way you don’t have to hope that it will find your EV charger (something Sense warns they may not always be able to do reliably because of how EVSEs work).

Sense is supported by Home Assistant and if you want to use triggers, you can export Hubitat virtual switches to HA to accomplish this. I was using this method, but it’s slow and sometimes Sense would not properly identify a device that had turned off.

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