I had plunged and got the Smppee power meter device (Described in another post) and had been using it for some time now.
Let me start with what I was not quite happy about:-) The device when shipped to India got slapped with a hefty customs duty and that spiked up the price much! Secondly the IFTTT integration is not working in a snappee:-) That, probably covers all the negatives!
The device could quickly connect to the WiFi and started reporting current usage right away. It also kept telling how much more or less power I am using each time I turned on or off any device. I had some fun walking around house switching on and off devices!
No devices got recognized immediately. Even when there were large chunk of power drawn by the geyser and microwave it did not immediately report it as a device detected. I communicated that concern to the support team (BTW, I had been bothering them constantly and they had been patiently responding to every comment I had raised. Hats off to them!) and they told me that is expected and it will take some time for the device to identify it as a DNA and isolate devices. And so it did!
Couple of days down the line, it identified my microwave and one by one it found few more. As I am not keen in mapping all the devices right now as this is a temporary address for me, I have left it after 4 or 5 devices were identified.
I also tried my hand creating a IFTTT workflow for it. When the power shoots up beyond 1KW, I wanted my Hue bulb to light up and it did light up. Unfortunately the latency was too much, like 2-5 minutes or more at times! Is this a workflow that should have immediate response, may be not. But my Hue bulb lit up after the Geyser was turned off instead of when it was turned on!
Overall, its still a wealth of information in its charts, and in its local alerts which keeps popping up on the app. Also even on 3G, it kept reporting the current power usage kind of real time. That was cool!
Today, I have a net outage at home and had to come to office to do my work. I have the Smappee app on to see if it started reporting the real time power usage to know if my network is back! Now that is the kind of trust I have on the device on the reporting!
Let me start with what I was not quite happy about:-) The device when shipped to India got slapped with a hefty customs duty and that spiked up the price much! Secondly the IFTTT integration is not working in a snappee:-) That, probably covers all the negatives!
The device could quickly connect to the WiFi and started reporting current usage right away. It also kept telling how much more or less power I am using each time I turned on or off any device. I had some fun walking around house switching on and off devices!
No devices got recognized immediately. Even when there were large chunk of power drawn by the geyser and microwave it did not immediately report it as a device detected. I communicated that concern to the support team (BTW, I had been bothering them constantly and they had been patiently responding to every comment I had raised. Hats off to them!) and they told me that is expected and it will take some time for the device to identify it as a DNA and isolate devices. And so it did!
Couple of days down the line, it identified my microwave and one by one it found few more. As I am not keen in mapping all the devices right now as this is a temporary address for me, I have left it after 4 or 5 devices were identified.
I also tried my hand creating a IFTTT workflow for it. When the power shoots up beyond 1KW, I wanted my Hue bulb to light up and it did light up. Unfortunately the latency was too much, like 2-5 minutes or more at times! Is this a workflow that should have immediate response, may be not. But my Hue bulb lit up after the Geyser was turned off instead of when it was turned on!
Overall, its still a wealth of information in its charts, and in its local alerts which keeps popping up on the app. Also even on 3G, it kept reporting the current power usage kind of real time. That was cool!
Today, I have a net outage at home and had to come to office to do my work. I have the Smappee app on to see if it started reporting the real time power usage to know if my network is back! Now that is the kind of trust I have on the device on the reporting!
