Further to my previous response I wanted to demonstrate that smartplugs are indeed quite accurate.
I have 2 Sense monitors on my panel.
- Sense #1 is on the Mains and is also monitoring a Wemo that I have a window Air Conditioner on [Blue in chart]
- Sense #1 has also natively detected that Air Conditioner [Teal in chart]
- Sense #2 has one of the Solar CTs on that same Air Conditioner’s dedicated circuit (the other Solar CT is unused). [Orange in chart]
The calibration on the Solar CT on Sense #2 is off … but when normalized for that you can see that the Wemo Insight is following the Sense ground-truth very well. See chart below.
The Sense native detection for now though, on my Air Conditioner, is playing catch-up and seems to only trigger with frequent AC cycles. @MaheshAtSense explains that here
