What can I do to help Sense identify my large appliances?

[kevin1]

You have some misperceptions on how Sense works. Sense uses frequency domain patterns around on/off transitions to do native detections, not the time domain waveforms your see in the Power Meter graph. More info on how Sense learns and detects devices compiled here:

How Sense does “Native Detection” Work ? - User Perspective

I’m just a user figuring these things out. I posted a few replies over the past couple days to community questions, then realized together, they tell a fuller story. Device Detection Taxonomy There are four different general technical types of device identifications in Sense-land. And there could be more in the future. Native Detections - for devices that have “clean” on and off transitions in the timeframe Sense is looking for (1/2 second transitions). Sense learns these on/off pairs as …