Anyone try this out? Thoughts?
Wirecutter review specifically notes does not interface with smart hubs.
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This looks interesting. I am wondering "how" it communicates and if there is a monthly cost.
I also have Ting Fiber Internet service.
There is - I think around $50 per year.
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State Farm was offering Ting units free to their customers a while back - I had two houses for a bit, so I got two of 'em, which are currently installed on both sides of my new house's 400A service.
They were free for the asking, and there's been no (monthly/yearly) charge since then. They interface with a phone app; I have not tried to access them with HE.
Check with your homeowner's insurance company.
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Unfortunately, State Farm is not offering Ting in my state. 
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Available and installed in New Jersey with State Farm
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Correct.
It doesn’t integrate with anything afaik, and claims to do some kind of fancy analytics to detect conditions in your house wiring to notify you of things that could be a fire risk.
And if it does, they say they’ll contact you and will even have local electricians lined up and ready to dispatch to your house.
Does it work? I have no idea.
In one year the only thing it told me was that my neighborhood experienced a brownout. That was during a heat wave so it was probably right.
If it does detect something that warrants an electrician, I don’t personally see the value in having them figure out which electrician to call. I know which electrician I’m calling if I have a problem.
I didn’t realize some insurance companies will offer a discount for using it, I guess I’ll have to double check with mine.
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Came across this device today too. Anyone know of a similar device that would integrate with HE and/or be local, preferably without the subscription cost?
Ting user in Ohio for about two years. State Farm made them available no charge. I assumed it would eventually become fee based. I get a weekly email report that usually reads no issues, an occasional report of a brownout or power failure. I think what the device really does is develop a sense of "normal" and alerts on changes that would show up as a result of arching with a poor connection somewhere. That eventually means heat and maybe a fire someday. I'll add that I don't see reason to integrate it with Hubitat.
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I kinda doubt there’s anything quite like what Ting purports to do, particularly without a cloud-based subscription fee.
They claim to have some kind of proprietary algorithm that can proactively warn you about dangerous conditions in your house wiring.
My guess is that from a safety perspective, an AFCI breaker could do pretty much the same thing (although the only notification would be the circuit turning off, unless you happened to be next to your breaker box when it trips).
Other than that, it monitors for surges and brownouts, which could be done with a variety of other devices.
I bought one when they first came to market because a friend was employed by them. They let him go eventually, and I decided I wasn’t particularly interested in paying them 50 bucks a year forever, so I canceled my subscription.
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Yep, I agree. I installed AF breakers many years ago for exactly this kind of safety, so I don't see any need for an additional device to do the same thing (and doubly not if it's a subscription).
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