Always ON at 1683 watts but all the breakers are Off

[kevin1]

I did some analysis of my hourly Always On a while back via export:

Making Sense of 'Always On' - Chapter 1 - Different 'Always On' Calculation over Time?

Since I have been on a bender removing hourly datapoints that have some dropout in them, I’ve been able to dig a little deeper into my weird Always On distributions. Here’s the original data covering 17 months… Remember: blue is hourly data here, red is aggregated daily. The orange dots on the top represent hours where no data was available (a big data dropout). [image] Same chart with good hourly data points in green, data points subject to data dropout in orange: [AlwaysOn] Here’s the h…

Two things helped explain big changes in my Always On, when everything else in my house appeared stable.

• Big downward drops in Always On are an indicator of data dropouts, either from the Sense monitor to your history data, or from SmartPlugs to the Sense monitor. Three words on data dropouts - 1) Sense has greatly reduced the number of dropouts I have seen since I did this analysis, 2) even if you see a dropout in your history timeline and export, the full data is often still makes it to the Sense mothership, and 3) dropouts can also come from networking issues on your/my side. Dropouts of over 1/2 hour combined over a 48 hour period can wreak havoc on Always On, both on the onset of the dropouts hitting the calculation, and on the recovery.

• Sense has also been fine tuning the Always On calculation over time for stability, more realistic representation and for new features (Always On for smartplugs). But they will generally let us know when they are tweaking the calculation.