(support ticket opened but bringing it up here for discussion)
I’ve run into a curious bug. As of less than 2 hours ago, SENSE has “detected” and enabled solar. It’s tracking a purported positive amount of energy being generated.
Only I’ve never had solar. Instead I’ve used that port on the device for dedicated circuit monitoring since it came out.
Was a new firmware just pushed?
Where ever this Phantom solar detection is coming from, it’s not from the dedicated CTs. If I turn both off at the breaker, the “solar” continues being detected. The only thing it could be is an inverse detection of one of the electric baseboards.
When I turn the oven on, instead of the dedicated CT catching the power, it jumps to 60W and the remainder of the 2000ish watts appears as ‘other’.
Screenshots to show this physics defying situation.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this? Is there a chance that I suddenly have faulty wiring somewhere that just started a couple of hours ago resulting in this “solar detection”?
I’ll update with whatever support comes back with.
@surias.0 , interesting problem. I’m placing my bet on the new Sense firmware seeing phantom solar. Not sure why it would happen for you or what the trigger is. I did see some posts in the beta-only part of the community from users who were getting quite accurate results with the new CT-less solar monitoring.
I’m not sure if this is noteworthy but if memory serves, I was provided the ‘solar CTs’ to use for device detection vs. the ‘device CTs’. I imagine there’s a minority of people with that. If the CTs have any type of programable SOC within them, perhaps that could be related? But I suspect not. I think they’re just installed physically in the reverse of what they would be if it was for Solar.
Support got back to me. This appears to be an edge-case bug that resulted from the machine-learning enabled solar detection (Detecting solar that isn’t clamped with the Solar CT option set as enabled).
They noted the details and manually disabled the false Solar enablement on my SENSE monitor.
