Sense Energy Monitor with Solar – Track Electricity Usage and Solar Production in Real Time

I just want to chime in about the Sense. I installed our unit and had it running on the first of January 2019 and it’s been running flawlessly since. My background is that I have spent the last 10 years installing solar electric systems in addition to installing low voltage, high tech equipment such as security alarm, camera and door access systems as well as networks and telephone key systems for the past 40 plus years. As far as installation goes, no two electrical panel setups are the same especially if you have solar and a backup generator with an automatic transfer switch like I do. For me I figuratively put a blindfold on and tied one hand behind my back and I was able to install the unit but for you, you may need assistance. Understand that we all have our own skill sets. I also had to run some cat6 to the garage and place an access point there because my wifi from the center of the house just couldn’t reach. You may have to also but you can use your phone to check your WiFi strength at the panel before you start to install. You can use a WiFi range extender too which are totally wireless. Here’s why I invested in the Sense. Over the years some of my solar clients would invariably tell me that even with solar their electrical bills were creeping up from $5 a month to $20 to $75 etc. After analyzing their solar production and being spot on we noticed that the clients were getting “solar lazy.” I phrase that I just made up. Here’s the definition. You get solar installed and you are promised that your bill will go from $150 a month to zero (using my house as an example) and you begin to think that because you have solar no matter how many appliances you buy and plug in your bill will still be zero. Then you also get lazy and start leaving things turned on such as lights, coffee makers, TV systems with cable boxes etc. Over time your usage increases but your solar only produces enough to cover your original usage and BOOM! Your electric bill starts increasing. Now if you don’t have solar your Bill just keeps going up higher and higher until you say, something’s wrong here. Now, in my case I swore it must have been the new Digital electric meter that the utility installed. I was ready to start a class action suit if I found this to be true. That’s when I got the Sense to prove the meter was faulty. As soon as I connected it I was blown away at how precise it was in reporting the actual usage and offset by the solar. I could even tell if I unplugged a cellphone charger! At that point I went around the house and unplugged TVs, cable boxes and DVD players to start in all the extra guest bedrooms and basement where we didn’t watch from on a daily basis. Whoa! I was able to notice a sizable difference in the “phantom load” which is the load placed on your electrical system from appliances and devices that stay plugged in but are technically “shut off.” I then noticed that there was a heating device listed as running sporadically when I knew that there really shouldnt have been. I looked all over the house and realized that I had placed a portable heater inside the hot tub just in case it stopped heating to protect against freeze damage to the pvc pipes. Sure enough the hot tub went “cold” and the heater had done it’s job but was costing me a small fortune to run. I was now obsessed with finding and correcting energy wasting usage around the house. Within about two weeks I cut my energy usage in half and my solar now covered 100% and more of the usage and I didn’t have to file a lawsuit against the electrical utility. To those that want an out of the box experience in knowing exactly what appliances are running, I will tell you that the sense is not for you if you don’t want to help it with detection. In my case, I too was disappointed that the Sense couldn’t figure out many devices in the house including the charging of my Prius plug in or my Prius Prime plug in. So I decided to help. Over the past 5 years at the same time we went solar, we did a major addition to the house and I installed (myself) a high efficiency condensing boiler with radiant heat in the floors as well as a Mitsubishi 8 unit split AC system as well as new front loader washer and Samsung fridge all having inverter based technology and variable speed pumps on the heating system. Sense is designed to recognize electrical loads that repeat their “usage signature” in the same pattern time after time such as a vacuum cleaner that turns a motor on and off when used. The things that i just listed that I installed use varying amounts of electric as they do their thing. They do not simply turn on and off. They spin up slowly saving energy and only use energy very wisely by doing that. But that’s the caveat. Sense can’t really read those “signatures” and match them to past signatures from other systems around the world and tell you that they’re running. So, I helped myself to know when they are running by purchasing Zwave controlled Kasa HS110 modules which communicate with the Sense unit and allow me to name that appliance and get precise usage stats for that normally undetectable appliance. The Kasa HS110 units are labeled 110v but work on 220v and I rigged two separate 110v feeds from two different busses in the panel into a combiner “y’ and then plugged my Prius Prime’s 110 v stock charging cable which is also labeled 110v but works at 220v and now charges the car in half the time. Do a search on the internet and if you have the proper charger from the factory you too can charge yours in half the time. Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, the Kasa HS110’s are recommended by Sense to pinpoint appliances that can’t be recognized. So now after purchasing a half dozen of these, I now show precise usage from my fridge, heating system, washer and even my two cat genies (automatic washing and flushing cat litter boxes). I can tell you to the penny what it costs us to run those Cat genies versus buying litter and I can tell you that since we rescued two adorable cats and I won the argument by trial after I installed those two automatic litter boxes (my wife was ready to divorce me but the cats took to them immediately and the wife never has to buy or touch litter again). If you have cats, the Cat Genie will change your life. So, getting back to detection, the Sense tries its best but can’t identify every load in your house. If you understand that from the beginning you will not be disappointed because even if you have a device that is identified as “Heat 1” you can spend a little time to decipher and look at the past usage patterns and in real time when it “kicks in” and go into the app a rename it to “electric fireplace” which BTW use an egregious amount of electric (I installed a natural gas sealed insert fireplace) but when I see people buying those fake fireplaces I shudder for them because they see their next electric bill and it goes up $30-$50. So, I give the Sense four stars but I really want to give it 5 stars because I think that the Sense people could have done a little bit more to offer additional sensors like the “solar” clip on sensors that they offer so I could monitor the load from devices such as my Mitsubishi split system which uses just a little too much current to wire in two HS110’s in line being too cumbersome to do so. This would also help others who have a separate sub panel for an apartment and they want to track what the renters (or their kids) are using. Obviously they could just buy another Sense if they wanted to but a $50-$100 clip on sensor is way better than another $250. Bottom line. It makes no sense If you don’t have Sense. PS, if you look at the attached pic you will see that the Sense app warned me about my usage being high. My wife’s GMC Terrain was leaking water into the car and has been fixed but I stuck a dehumidifier in there to dry it out. I knew it was going to increase energy usage but this is where Sense shines. They also told me that I originally cut my usage in half. It works!

Sense is a truly amazing product. I can say without hesitation that this product paid for itself quite easily within just a few days of installation. I'm a solar power generator, so that makes the product even more useful for me. This review is overwhelmingly positive; let's get the negatives out of the way first. First: installation. This wasn't necessarily "easy" to install, even though I hired a licensed electrician to do the work (by the way, this really isn't optional -- home DIYers need to be very knowledgeable to safely install this unit. Get an electrician!) Problem: electricians generally haven't heard of this and don't know what they're installing or why. In my case my electrican initially stated it wasn't possible to set up the solar relay CTs until I gently nudged him to try it a different way. The other issue with installation was that the solar CTs simply didn't work at all once the box was hooked up. Of course I had this done on the weekend and had to wait until Monday for tech support. The whole time I kept trying different processes to initialize the system, getting more frustrated all the while. But on Monday the tech was able to do something remotely to the box which let the CTs start making their initial readings. However, they were calibrated wrong, sending wildly inaccurate readings. I went to the user's forum. At the end of the day and after trying many different combinations of routing the CTs I discovered that when I closed the panel it was putting pressure on one of the CTs. Voila. I re-routed the CT one last time and carefully watched the readings as I tightened down the panel. That was the last of the troubleshooting relating to installation and I started enjoying the product greatly at that point. Let me state up front that although tech support is email only, it was outstanding across the board. Although I ended up discovering my own installation problem before my tech did, we were exchanging photos of my breaker panel via email, he was marking them up and sending them back, and providing detailed guidance. I never felt like I was left to twist in the wind. If you purchase this unit and have some hang-ups at the beginning, just trust that the process is probably going to work out okay. Last criticism before the happy parts: Sense is a learning unit. You can't "teach" it (well, you can, with some $$ exceptions) and it learns at its own pace. That pace can feel very slow. It doesn't always identify units correctly and in my cases it has a hard time figuring out the difference between my oven and a space heater, and one of my heating elements and the dryer. Understandable, but annoying, because I had correctly tagged those units and then Sense thinks they're something else. Okay. Enough of that. WOW! Let's just make this clear -- even if all of those issues are enough to drive you crazy (for me, they're not) they pale in comparison to what this thing does out of the box. I now have a clear picture of how much power I consume, how much solar power I send to the grid, and how much solar is used to power my home. I've identified energy hogs (a water booster pump) which I've placed a smart plug on so it can't run all night. I've found surprising energy hogs in my kids' bathroom -- thought I had replaced all of the lights in the house with LED but the hot/bright lights embedded above their vanity drew nearly 600w. I realized that leaving the "small" lights on in the garage were costs me 200w per hour. And the real shocker was just how much power my electric heat drew. I have a house built in the 60s which I recently converted to natural gas. That dramatically lowered my heating costs in the winter, but I was only able to heat/cool the top half of the house with the forced air furnace and central AC we installed. The finished basement, the lower level, didn't have any room for aesthetically pleasing ducting. So we installed an energy efficient mini split in the large den and left the electric heat for a guest room, guest bathroom, and my home office. Turns out it costs more to run the heat for just one of those rooms than the entire rest of the house. Even the smaller rooms. These rooms have combinations of electric baseboard heaters and radiant ceiling heat. Extraordinarily expensive to operate. This nudged me towards the Mysa thermostat which allows me to control the heat in all the rooms on schedules and as a group. When we have guests in our home, I can now simply engage a "guest mode." The heating savings on this alone more than pays for the Mysa thermostats and Sense. Sense also made me a lot smarter about how and when to consume power. Here in NJ we have net metering and on/off peak per kWh billing from JCP&L. Whenever possible we try to do the "big stuff" off peak, although at some point you've just got to live a normal life -- you can't get too crazy about this stuff, although it is certainly addictive. Sense also made me willing to purchase a few TP-Link accessories which are compatible with Sense -- mainly smart outlets which let me a) monitor specific consumption of items and b) name the device for Sense. Sense learns at its own pace, but when you tell it what's on one of the TP-Link outlets, it knows right away... and that's good for the "community learning" so others with that appliance or device will have faster ID with Sense. Basically, I feel way ahead of the game now with my power consumption and production. Very, very happy with Sense!

OK the last review up here is over a year old if not two. I think they have improved this alot. First, easy to install. Plug into a 220v breaker, attach leads, position unit stable, done. Previous complaints were this didn't detect your home devices. I got a few in 3 days. It has now found everything major in my home except for our split AC units which dont have the same signature when they turn on like a window AC. They slowly increase in usage so they either fall under other or always on probably with the fan. Its incredibly accurate. It is within 1 kWH or less for my solar production and .2 kWH or less for my draw from the grid when comparing to the power company's report daily. If you have solar and want to see your actual usage through the day this is awesome since you cant see from the power company when your inverter is producing. The device detection is really good. I can pick up the stove and water heater easily. It can even detect between a small fridge and small freezer both using nearly the same power. It can even detect the usage of a heated toilet seat. The web application isn't as good as the phone app. The phone app, really works well. I'm a 3/5 on the web application. Always kicks you out, need to login again, doesn't save some of your settings. But on the phone, looks works great. I like the keep awake option it does when you are watching the live usage so the phone doeskin sleep. If you want accurate reports of your usage, see what devices are using by turning them off and watch dips, excellent little monitor here, I'm pleased.

As an engineer, I've been fairly satisfied with the Sense Solar. It gives me great information how much solar power I am generating vs. power consumption, which is the primary reason I bought it. First, the Sense box and solar kit came in a very nice solid package. Maybe a little too much was printed out, but no complaints because it is a good reference guide during installation. Installation was relatively simple. I don't recommend or advise anyone to do this, but I installed it myself and did the entire installation without shutting off the main power panel. Bought a 20A double pole breaker, connected it up to the 3 lines (hot, neutral, and ground) to the Sense box. Then hook up the current transformers to the incoming power lines and the solar power lines in the breaker box, it's good to go. Sense also provided an external WiFi Antenna. Originally I was going to poke a hole in the service panel for the WiFi Antenna because WiFi cannot penetrate a metal box obviously. But after closer examination, I could use the electrical conduit that goes inside the house and it is plastic. I was proven correct after I powered up everything. Strong 90% signal on the 2.4 Ghz even though I am going through walls. I do have some concerns that Sense is only rated for 32°F-122°F since my service panel is outdoor and I can see outdoor temperature easily exceed the rated temperature. But knowing a little bit about electronics give me some assurance that it will continue to work below freezing. But the temperature range seems very restrictive in my opinion for something that can be installed outdoor. Additionally, the warranty is only 1 year which tells me Sense may not have a lot of confidence in their product. The whole device is mostly plastic but well built. Only time will tell. The price is a little high for current sensing smart devices, but the ability to detect and track appliance usage intrigued me and I was willing to pay a little more to test it. 1 week after installing the Sense, my Sense was still waiting for signal check, but I was getting basic usage reading for both Solar and consumption. Then I got an email from Sense tech support for permission to review my usage data due to a possible issue with my Sense install. I gave them permission and Sense told me that I connected my current transformers (clamp) to the same power line. I checked my panel and even sent a picture telling them I clamped one to the left, one to the right. I am not stupid, you know? Tech support got back to me within 24 hours and told me some panels with bus bars would switch lines as they run through the breakers. Sure enough, they were right when I hooked up my multi-meter. I changed the clamp to connect to the correct power line and also reset data of my Sense. Within 1 day, signal check was complete and now I am getting two steams of data (2 power lines) instead of a single line. My experience with tech support is Sense really had good email support and my questions were answered usually within 24 hours. They also monitor your data to make sure you didn't mess up on your setup. I give them kudos for being proactive. Next comes the device detection. Being an engineer, I didn't have high confidence that it will work that well. Within a day or 2, it discovered a couple of devices like my electric dryer (duh), frig, etc. Then things started to slow down and become less and less accurate. At the time of this review, which is about a month after Sense was first installed correctly at my house, it has detected 14 devices, some very questionable in my opinion. But I am still fairly happy with the Sense as it met most of my goals, so when it discovers new devices just become exciting events for me. It seems to discover about 1-2 new devices a week most likely because the detection happens in the cloud (my guess). As mentioned, detection seems to be hit and miss and some devices may be detected sometimes but not consistently. I haven't had a full billing cycle yet but seem to be a 2-5% difference between my solar inverter report of power generation and Sense. Given there might be some small losses from the inverter to the breaker, 2-5% still translate to a report of 38 kWh vs 40 kWh which can be significant for some people. I also want to point out that they have both an app and Web site that you can access your consumption information. I hope detection will continue to improve overtime because of cloud learning, but I understand how hard it is to separate the noise because there are so many different things that can affect detection. But that's where Sense stands out against the competitions and I hope they will continue to offer new features. I think if you manage your expectation, you should be satisfied with Sense. ********** New update December 2019 - I have been using the Sense Solar for about 6 months. I am disappointed that detection did not improve and only 1 device was detected as heat. about 50% of my usage are still listed as other, so I am not as happy with Sense as I did before. Also, it seems to get confused and mix devices with similar usage pattern up. It's not ready for prime time when it comes to detection. But it does provide me very accurate usage and solar generation information, that's where this thing shines. Also, it's 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside at night and the Sense is working just fine in a protective electronically enclosure. So it's operating outside of the manufacturer's rated environment. I also don't see how I save any money since owning Sense. As a result of my recent experience with detection, I am lowering my rating from 4 stars to 3 stars. I will update if it is improved. **** New update December 2020 Sense unit still works fine outdoor behind my electrical panel, so it can operate outside of the manufacture's recommended operating temperature range. Detection is still a gimmick at best with 47% of my annual usage categorized as other and 15.3% as Always on after second year of usage. So overall, 62% of my electric usage is unknown to Sense, that defeats the purpose of sensing. I kept my rating as 3 star because it is not able to do what it was advertised to do, and I can't say I save any money as a result. ***** Updated April 2021 I now downgraded my Sense review to 2 Star. While it works well to estimate between how much power I use vs how much solar I generate, it fails at its promise for Sensing and saving power. over 50% of my power usage is either always on or Other, plus sometimes the app displays something that's clearly not on, it clearly has not lived up to its name and I would have paid far less with other solutions. ****** Sept 2022 update Sense still works but detection has gotten worse instead of improving. With utilities moving to smart meter that gives you daily usage vs production as well as statistics about possible usage pattern similar to what Sense gives us, there's less and less reason to get Sense. I only use it for near real time usage and production information to track my usage. Of course Sense gives more data, but utility's smart meter can accomplish the same for many people for "free". this is still a 2 star product after 3 years of usage. **** Oct 2023 update (final verdit) Sense still works but detection is a total gimmick now that I have 4 years of experience running the monitor. It didn't detect my AC compressor stalled and didn't do anything to improve my life. It gives me accurate usage vs solar generation number which helps me to plan my usage. If it wasn't for the high price and the promise of smart detection, this would be a decent product. And problem with Sense is it is a complete cloud device, you are at the mercy of the company to provide your data. If the company goes out of business, Sense will stop working and become worthless. Same if the company has an outage in the cloud, you will experience it as well and there's nothing you can do until they fix the cloud issue. Final verdict, 2 star product due to not living up to its promise or potential. Feb 2024 - cloud outage update My fear of the cloud came true. A "partial" outage in Feb 2024 proved that my fear that the monitor would become useless if cloud service goes away. During weekend of President's Day 2024, I lost ability to see historical usage which is important to estimate my overall solar generation vs consumption. The outage lasted almost 5 days and during the time, I could only see real time usage which is not very useful. While Sense monitoring was not completely down, it shows how slow the company reacts to outages and we are completely at their mercy when it comes to our data. This is the final straw, I am lowering the rating to 1 star. I would not recommend it even though I gave it a good chance to work. It's a gimmick by a company that doesn't have the motivation to improve its product year after year. I will update if this improves but I noticed more and more outages over the years.

I've had Sense for about a month now. I was really excited to see the breakdown of how my electricity is used. TLDR; It's useful, but not nearly as useful as I hoped. It's valuable, but not as much as I paid. It was a little difficult to install, but that may have just been my setup. My main lines were too close together for the clamps to fit around. I had to very carefully bend them apart. I was also fortunate I have a newer, large box to keep it in--it takes a bit of room. I bought some non-flammable insulation for it so it wouldn't freeze (it says it shouldn't go below freezing, but my box is outside). Right away, it started giving me really great data about how much power I'm using overall, down to the second, with basically zero noise. I can turn LED room lights on and off and watch the usage change. However, it was many days before it started recognizing any devices, and they were slow to trickle in. To this day I'm still not sure if it correctly recognizes my dishwasher, electric clothes dryer, stoves or oven. I was expecting to be able to provide some input into the device recognition process. Like, I could tell Sense when my oven turns on and off, helping it recognize it. But Sense has to do the recognition all by itself and you just have to wait. Then, when it recognizes a device, you can do the work of figuring out exactly what it is. It does sometimes get things mixed up, like 2 real devices will be recognized as one, but it does an ok job telling things apart. One more problem I had was that a couple times I received notifications saying there was an installation problem--that the clamps weren't shut tight. The first time I went out and, finding nothing obviously changed, jiggled things a bit. It stopped complaining about the installation, but it also seemed to forget a bunch of my devices and had to discover them again. The second time I ignored it, and it seems as good as it ever did. Maybe that's part of the source of the problems listed above, but I'm not confident jiggling it again will do any permanent good. Overall, it's a useful product, and I have hope that over time its algorithms will get better at recognizing devices, but at the moment I don't really feel it was worth what I paid for it, even on sale. That said, I'm still keeping it for its current utility and in the hope it gets better.

IoT devices are helpful -- but so many of them are just horrible in daily use. Attempts to save money or battery mean slow interactions, constant network problems. and constant hand-holding. Sense may be more expensive than your average IoT lightbulb -- but for the cost you get something that's bulletproof. The SW just works, the HW just works, the "service" (eg identifying new electrical items) just works. Is it worth buying? Well, that's a personal thing. If you're the sort of person who even considers buying it, honestly you probably have a physics based knowledge of what actually uses substantial power (rather than the weird myths floating around) and already have those items under control as much as feasible. So claims that it will save you tens+ of dollars a month are unlikely. BUT there is real delight in how much data they provide and at such fine granularity. It's nice to see, minute by minute, how variable your power load is, how variable your solar generation is, to compare last year to this year, and so on. Be aware that it's good, but cannot perform miracles, in detecting your HW. Some patterns it can pick up right away (especially the big items like AC). Some items it can take a long time (six months or more) to figure out. And some items it will notice the pattern, but you have to figure out what it is (this was especially puzzling to me till I figured out a pattern was my fridge's defrost cycle). And many items with either very low loads (think phone charger) or always on (think eg TV streaming box) don't present a variable enough pattern for it to figure them out. You can install it, and see the baseline numbers (how much energy used, how much solar generated) out the box, but to go beyond that you have to be willing to do some work, to note each item detected and identify it more exactly. Fun for some of us, utterly uninteresting to most people. Perhaps if you are confident in your electrical skills you can install it. But i's not a trivial install. You don't have to actually cut or join wires, but you do have to know where to place the sensors. I had a professional electrician install it for me, even though I'd happily self-install most IoT hardware. Perhaps the most convincing thing I can say is that I find it valuable enough that I am working on getting the water equivalent installed, but still have to figure out whether I want Flo, Phyn or a third brand.

I saw this on this on the TOH. I was little intrigued since they used it and highly recommended it. I was debating whether to spend that $300 for this unit which included leads for my solar panels. Wow was this money well spent. It took about 15 minutes to hook it up to my electrical panel it was simple to install. I am extremely well versed in electrical, so it was very easy for me to hook up. If you're not that great at electrical you really should get an electrician just to be on the safe side. I did not have an extra 220 breaker, so I hooked it up to an existing 220 breaker that had 2 hookups for each screw. The main reason I bought this was to monitor my solar panels in real time. After I hooked it up it started to read my Electrical output of my house usage and my solar panels generation. My solar panel output was around 2200 watts on a sunny day. I thought that was kind of odd since I have 35 solar panels on my roof, and they should generate a minimum of 150 Watts each. After checking things out I reset my solar panels and they started generating 4300 watts or power that was a monster improvement. I would have never realized that my solar panels weren't generating what they were supposed to without Sense Energy Monitor with Solar. I have only had these for 3 days now, but I found out a couple of things right away. I have 241 Watts always on in my home. This was due to my Phones, my Cable Boxes, my computer in sleep mode, my 4 Echo’s and believe it or not, some of my night lights that are on in room with little sun. I used to leave my Keurig on during the day not anymore. I was shocked always on it was using 225 watts of power but to brew a coffee it shot up to over 1500 Watts, I now keep it off. My refrigerator in my basement was cycling 76 times a day it was only on for a minute or so for each cycle this amount is normal some cycle a lot more. My main refrigerator was cycling 265 times a day. I did clean this refrigerator it now cycles about 135 time a day. I would highly recommend Sense Energy Monitor with Solar or the Sense Energy Monitor without Solar. It is extremely informative and can save money in the long run. I would think this will pay for itself in a couple of months allowing you to see what wasting energy in your home and do something about it

Came to know about Sense from one 'This Old House' episode. Installation of Sense is a breeze, I did it myself, but if you are uncomfortable opening up your main electric panel, you should hire an electrician for the installation part. This thing is amazing in its sensitivity and accuracy. Every half second data is collected, and the server gets updated via your WIFI network and the phone app shows the electricity usage/solar production in real time. I find the app light weight, responsive and intuitive- hope it stays that way. As the device collects your home energy usage it is very important that the data collected is not misused (read sold to third party). I read the EULA carefully, and found the data generated by the device is mine- and can only be used by the company in aggregate form to improve their product. If you have solar and installed the solar sensors, you will get real time solar generation data, which matches with the solar inverter data. The best part is device identification, which is done through unsupervised machine learning. Based on the electricity usage fingerprints of many similar devices the algorithm predicts your home appliances with certain confidence level. The down side of this unsupervised approach is you have to be patient for it to detect your devices. But it is fun to hunt down what is actually "Heat 2" when Sense says "New device found" - it has an element of a game in it which I enjoy. A really innovative and well made product, which is a must have if you want to be home energy conscious at a granular level.

Reseña larga pero explico a detalle como lo hice funcionar en Mx. En general hace lo que promete y hasta el momento me ha encontrado refrigeradores, congelador y cafetera, me sirve para entender que tanto gastan de corriente mis aparatos en total o individualmente cuando los detecta por separado y hace una comparación con la corriente producida por mis paneles, que es exactamente lo que estaba buscando. Ahora como hice que funcionara: Tengo instalados paneles solares con microinversores; a mi centro de carga llegan dos cables principales de corriente o "mains" cada uno de "110v" (que normalmente me dan 125v+ c/u) y dos cables de los paneles solares, que después pasan por una pastilla termomagnética en una caja alternativa y finalmente llegan a una unidad que monitorea la producción, mi proveedor de paneles nunca aceptó instalarme medidores para mi gasto de corriente de casa (que es una opción en la unidad de monitoreo de los paneles), asi que decidí probar ésta solución. De entrada yo instalé los medidores, con mucho cuidado, dos a los main y dos a los cables de paneles, no necesité a un eléctrico, pero siempre es lo más recomendable. De entrada para activar los medidores de los paneles al estar configurando, se pide que sea cuando hay producción o sea en el día, se pide que se apague la pastilla (de los paneles) y luego que se encienda; a mí no me funcionó así que lo que hice fue desconectar los medidores y luego volverlos a conectar. Ahí inició el único problema que tuve. Al estar todo conectado noté en la sección de mediciones que uno de los mains mostraba voltaje negativo al bajar la producción de solar o sea en la noche y si invertía el medidor de ese cable, durante el día, ese main me daba lectura negativa, así que decidí probar al soporte; éste es un problema porque de entrada en la app te dice que soporte no está disponible en tu país. Lo que hice fue utilizar una app de VPN desde el celular para hacer pensar a la app de Sense que estaba en Estados Unidos e inmediatamente me permitió levantar un ticket (en inglés), después de un día de pruebas, en donde pude ver lecturas raras, me respondieron a mi correo pidiéndome más detalles de mi conexión incluyendo fotos, sin embargo para ese momento las lecturas me aparecían correctas así que pedí cerrar el ticket. Soporte tiene la opción de hacer ajustes remotamente pero solo si el producto está "instalado en Estados Unidos"

It’s not authorised for use in Australia on 230v and they won’t give support if you try to use it over here. They aren’t licensed for sale anywhere other than USA and Canada on 2phase 110v switchboards

I replaced the Neurio Energy Monitoring with Solar.... WITH the Sense Energy Monitor with Solar and its Soooo much better, in fact not even close. I did have an electrician install it and it took about 45min give or take as we had to move a few things around and make some adjustments, take the Neurio out, more because I have a smaller electricity box. We did install it in the evening and because of the solar feature I had to wait till the next day to physically set it up as I needed sun to do it properly. Very easy to set up and follow along. The numbers are bang on. After about 36-48 hours it started to recognize a few things, fridge, freezer, AC as these things cycle regularly. Easy to double check and make sure it was the correct device, for example I have two fridges and it was fairly easy to figure out which fridge it was. I find myself using the Sense app more than my solar app and when I compare the two it is on the money as far as what my solar app shows in real time vs what Sense is showing me. Great Tech gadget, love it and the easy of use and all the easy to understand data it shows. Highly recommend the Sense Energy Monitor with Solar.

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Takes a while to find lights. Found my sump pump and various appliances in the 1st month.