I just installed my flex sensor to monitor my pool equipment. I have the flex sensor on the breaker that feeds a sub panel that operates the pool equipment. Does anyone know if the algorithm will continue to identify any subcomponents or does this lock all my pool equipment as one item?
@billlokey Dedicated Circuit Monitoring wasn’t necessarily designed to work with branch circuits (circuits that power more than one device), but it will still pick up the usage of the circuit as a singular device. The subcomponents on that breaker will show as one device and Sense will not continue to identify individual devices on that circuit.
If Sense has detected any of the equipment/devices on that circuit (that you’re aware of), be sure to merge it with the dedicated circuit device after set-up to avoid duplication.
Thanks Justin, that is what I figured. It is definitely useful to know what all the pool equipment is using. However any data Sense get from my flex sensor will be useless for others.
It would seem to me that sense should be able to continue to detect the sub components while adding them merged into the overall sub panel being monitored. Why isn’t that the case?
Hi @garpinc - Dedicated Circuit Monitoring is designed to monitor circuits dedicated to a single device, in most cases for devices that Sense has not been able to natively detect. At this time, Sense reads the data coming in from a dedicated circuit similarly to how it reads Smart Plug data. Essentially, you’re telling Sense that consumption from a smart plug or dedicated circuit sensor is connected to a single device and it’s attributing all the reported consumption to that device.
Yes this is what I would expect… But I would also expect it to still continue to attempt to detect devices behind either the smart plug or the subpanel giving the user the opportunity to break up the consumption of the dedicated circuit into devices, other and always on similarly to how the overall sense device captures data. I realize this might not be a feature yet but I’d like to request it. The current reason I installed the dedicated circuit monitor is because sense did not natively detect the device but it shouldn’t preclude sense ever now attempting to detect it should a model ever be developed…
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