I am not clear if a manual data reset is intended to benefit from this Wishlist item, or only the replacement of the Sense monitor. Here is a list to summarize items that should transfer:
- All the information under My Home on the Settings tab in the app should transfer. This includes address and home size plus all the information and fields in the Device Inventory.
- I suggest we skip the next tab under Settings, which is called Connected Devices. The programming effort to make these settings transfer is probably greater than the user effort to recreate them.
- All the information under Electricity Info on the Settings tab in the app should transfer, including any Time of Use rate zones that the user has defined.
- The final tab under Settings is view only information about the Monitor. It need not transfer.
- I agree with Kevin1 that hourly usage history by device be excluded, as this information can already be saved for backup via data export. Leaving this item out reduces the amount of programming effort to complete the Wishlist, which makes Sense more likely to implement it.
Not yet discussed above is what might transfer in regard to native device definitions. I propose that the system store user-defined characteristics such as name, make, model and location for every native detection. Later, whenever the AI engine detects a new device, the interface could offer a pick list of old names which might apply to the new detection.
To go a little further with the idea for transferring native device definitions, it might be possible to save some of the values which describe the device in 20 dimensional space per the quote above. Could the AI engine then seed its search with those values in order to re-find those devices more quickly? Would that strategy help if one needs to adjust sensor clamps around the main power wires?