Sense found a device currently labeled heat 1. When I open the ‘help sense learn’ we see many have chosen slow cooker and the like. All of which are designated under the icon kitchen appliance.
I have purchased a kasa power strip with energy monitoring. When looking to label my instapot. I see there is not currently an option for Slow cooker/Pressure cooker.
Since this seems a very popular devece detected. Can an option be added into appliances for these various “cookers?”
Likewise add a pressure/slow cooker option into the home details??
For those who have them…they are a well used heat source using up a significant energy during use (wife cooked something 20 hours the other day)
As previously stated the ~Other~ option in home details is rather broken.
There are a lot of random or less-popular appliances that I’m sure Sense isn’t really focusing on, but that may be of help to others. Deep fryer is a very obscure, but probably very high draw, appliance.
I’d say a coffee grinder is much less prevalent then a slow/pressure cooker. Also much less impact on the KWHs. It has a catagory and icon. Along with many other low key devices in the list.
To that point, coffee grinders are much more common than you might think. I was definitely surprised how common they are, and I own one myself. I’ve learned it’s more about the components inside the appliance or device - a coffee grinder has a small motor in it, which has a very definitive energy signature (motors in general do, that’s why we’re able to do things like Motor Stalls in Sense Labs). A lot of those options are grouped/suggested by the components that comprise them.
Fair enough.
Motors and heat detection seem to be at the top for quick detection.
My Oven was alone of the first detected.
Within a week of being used regularly the our small instapots(slow/pressure cooker)was detected as ‘heat 1’
