First an apology if I’m posting in the wrong place. As a new user, on my 3rd day, I’m wondering what the typical learning curve is. So far all it has found is the fridge. Is this typical and am I just being impatient? i.e. When shouldI expect it to have a more complete profile?

Welcome @steven.richardson Yes, Patience is key. Some homes have very slow detection while others it can happen quickly. I have an all electric 1600ft home in Kentucky. I’m seven months in and have around 43 detections with 14 being smart plugs. Almost all from the first three months or so. The det…

A couple of us have posted detection rate charts that include both normal detections and smartplugs. My advice - it’s probably better to look at detections on a weekly level as a measure of progress than day by day. And as @samwooly1 suggests, each house can be different. [image] A…

Another thing I’d say is after 3 days and already detecting your fridge is a good sign to me. Not everyone has a detection that fast. You’ll likely have days like I have had where there have been as many as four in a single day. That is really exciting. Then, the detections can seem to stop and it…

So it can take awhile and I need to be patient. Are there any tricks one can do to help the discovery?

General learning/detection tips: Repetition is important - machine learning “likes” to see many, many repetitions of an on and off cycle, under many different power usage conditions in the house. On/offs induced by humans may or may not be helpful - not helpful if the on/off isn’t the same as a ty…

I am also on Day 3. It took 36 hours to do the basic test. After 24 or so hours it gave me a 50% complete and the info that there is a problem and Sense will try to figure it out automatically. I guess it did. Any way to find out what that problem was? I have a central air that goes on often given i…

NDI only works on a select set of newer networked TVs, as far as I have seen on the forum. AC offer a relatively predictable and stable pattern (Sense seems to identify traditional AC compressors OK, though not mini-splits). If Sense can detect it, it’s not noisy.

I’m curious to know if anybody here has seen a new device that clearly wasn’t theirs. Yesterday Sense found a new device and named it heat 1. In looking at the usage I saw this: On June 4th for example my total usage measured by Sense was 5.526 kWh. I x-checked this with my energy provider’s (PECO…

Something doesn’t sound right in the way you have explained your issue. If Heat 1 shows a daily usage of 21.991 kWh and Sense shows a total usage for the same day that is lower than that then your Sense is misbehaving and you should ask Support to take a look. Meanwhile, a separate issue is that i…

Thanks for the reply. My utilities provider usually matches to 99%. However, they “round up”. So if sense gives me an hour @ 0.58 kWh, Peco shows 1 kWh. Usually it’s to their advantage… :frowning: Nothing I can do about it. However, this is the second time I see a “new device” that totally doesn’t …

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kevin1 July 31, 2019, 7:03am 15

Here’s a few months worth of analysis of AC detection at my house vs. commands coming out of my thermostats.

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