Thanks… The two detected waveforms for my 3 Subzero fridge device are much simpler indicating, though similar, indicating that Sense is still missing some of the additional components.
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This is similar to what mine looked like before HS110. I installed HS110 because I could hear the SubZero running w/ Sense not detecting device as being On. Or sense would detect the fridge compressor running when I was confident it was actually the freezer compressor ( you can tell by checking evaporator temperatures).
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Have you given thought (if you have crawl space) to going under your house and seeing if you have enough slack you can pull in the wire to cut it, put a box and receptacle on the line side and plug going up to the subzero receptacle? There you could put the hs110. When I was trying to test my floor heater, that’s what I did to use the kill-a-watt. Doing it that way keeps it within NEC.
Not a bad idea… I’m not that desperate yet, though. I do get partial insight into the energy usage from Sense today, plus with guys like @serovner86 installing HS110s, Sense will get enough “ground truth” over the next year to really enhance identification of Subzeros (Yay @serovner86 !).
My refridge units are suppose to be smart and do have a built-in interface for home automation. Only problem is that the interface is fairly complicit and proprietary and requires hookup to a high end home automation system. I would love to hack something together, just to know when the units are running, and when the freezer is defrosting.
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To be honest. I’m jealous of all those HS110’s everyone has.
I’m really in the stone age compared to everyone else.
The more posts I read about them. the more I’d like to have
some. I’ve seen the topic on deals for them but they are still
out of range for me. Where to get the lowest prices consistently?
Not sure there is one consistent place for best price… @ken2 shared a pretty good price earlier today.
The market price used to be around 40$ last year, but started dropping late in the year.
B&H and WalMart have them for $15.99
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Don’t laugh @kevin1 but I went and bought one. Yeah. just one.
It’s a start but going to happen slowly for me. That is the best
price I have seen.
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Lowest I’ve found is B&H Photo (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/) for $15.99 including shipping.
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I’m curious as to how many active sense detections others have and their timeframe of use.
Please just include sense detections and not smart plugs. Also curious approximately how many total detections you’ve had, including what sense has combined or has been deleted by you or sense.
I’m at 73 days;
Active 21
Total. Over 40
Almost four months
5 active
8 total
I’m in Nova Scotia and heat my home with electric baseboard heat. One thermostat is a smart thermostat (CaSA Caleo). My theory is that fact interfere with detections.
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I don’t know how the thermostat would interfere but I’m also not familiar with baseboard heat. Do you know if anything in your home would be considered “noisy” electrically?
The smart thermostat controls the living room heaters. It uses pwm to control the heaters and they were on most of the time this winter. I’m thinking the constant on/off every 10 to 15 seconds is interfering with other detections.
I don’t have any noisy equipment.
You may be right then because I’ve read where others have had low detection when it came to pulse width modulation
Here is an old pole that I ran with 20 responses.How many Sense devices
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I apologize @markhovis73, if I had seen it I would have posted there to keep it alive.
Maybe @RyanAtSense, @kevin1 @MachoDrone or another moderator would be kind enough to move this to yours.
How I missed it IDK as I replied to it. Old age I guess
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No worries. I just linked it to yours for the same reason to keep the topics together. No worries at all on which one points to the other. I know from all of your post its just about sharing the information. It’s all good.
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I’m curious as to how many active sense detections others have and their timeframe of use.
Please just include sense detections and not smart plugs. Also curious approximately how many total detections you’ve had, including what sense has combined or has been deleted by you or sense.
I’m at 73 days;
Active 21
Total. Over 40
This is a really cool thread. I’ve had my unit for a week an a half and I’ve only got three devices detected so far. I’m hoping to see more but I don’t want to get my hopes up and have them dashed. 
When I hit 90 days I’ll have to respond with my details. Thanks for creating this thread.
Updated:
Time period using Sense: 15 days
Total reliable devices detected - 10
These are:
- Dehumidifier
- Sump Pump
- Garage Door Opener
- Instant Pot (it has occasional false positives)
- Microwave
- Rice Cooker, and
- Blender
- Convection Oven
- Upstairs A/C
- Dryer (although Sense shows it switching off about 5 minutes into a 50 minute cycle)
Unknown or questionable devices - another 3 (unknown)
Supposedly refrigerators. I do have 3 x refrigerators/freezers but the on/offs detection is not tying exactly with actual on/offs (based on auditory detection) on any of them, so it will require additional effort to figure out if they are actually the devices being detected and which is which.
So 13 total in 15 days.
I have a few key devices not yet detected
a) 1 x A/Cs (though I’ve only turned it on for 3 days and that too intermittently),
b) my EV charger (also on only twice or thrice in this period),
c) my kitchen ventilation fan (also 4x bathroom vent fans but those are probably small loads),
d) treadmill (haven’t used it yet these last 14 days)
e) washer,
f) [Update: Detected]
g) dish washer,
h) projector,
i) gas fired water heater boiler feeder pump
j) kitchen sink disposal unit
k) furnace / stove / fireplace igniters
I presume its a bit much to expect home electronics, LED/CFL lights and room fans to be individually detected so i’m not including them. If it detects item ‘i’ on the list above, it’ll probably also pick up my baseboard heating pumps in the winter.
So far so good.