Home Energy Monitor – Solar Energy/Net Metering – Save on Electricity – Bills & …

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Track Your Energy Usage, React by Changing Your Habits, Save Money With an Eyedro Home Energy Monitor

Track, React, Save

Looking to use energy more efficiently and save money in the process? We have the solution. With Eyedro’s home electricity monitors, you can see your electricity usage and costs—in…

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Reviewer: Peterpants
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Eyedro gives me data to reduce my energy usage, and thus my electricity bill.
Review: I’m very happy with the eyedro. I bought the wired version, and had to snake an ethernet cable from the router to the basement, but I’ve heard from their support team that the wireless version works fine in houses (signal can go through walls, multiple floors, etc). I would recommend going wireless to save you the trouble of drilling holes in floors, and running 100′ of ethernet, running ethernet through conduits, and stapling the cable to basement ceiling walls. It took me about 2 minutes to install the eyedro, but 2 hours to run an ethernet cable, go wireless.What I love about the eyedro, is that I can see how much energy the house is using in real time. I can walk around the house turning things on and off, and my phone shows the difference a second later. So, this turns saving energy into a game. Before bed, when I’m checking that all the doors are locked, I also pull up the Eyedro current usage meter on my phone, and check that we’re only using the baseline, which is about 200 watts. If its higher than that, that means I’ve left something on: lights / monitors / computer in the office, lights in the basement. Also, I’ve been replacing all the lights in the house from incandescents to LEDs, this is a huge and easy was to reducing energy usage. (I buy my lights from IKEA, very well priced). Next, I’m also hunting the house, to try to find “phantom energy” users. i.e. things that draw a load, even though your not really using it, think stereo, vcr, tv, coffee maker. Overnight, my house used a minimum of 170 watts, meaning, once the furnace fan turned off, and the refrigerator took a break, and all the lights were off, things in the house that I’m not using still pulled that much energy. 170 watts of phantom energy, costs about $160/yr at my energy rate, and the eyedro dashboard gives you all of this information in real time reports. You can view the eyedro dashboard from your laptop, or from your phone. It’s not a native mobile app, but a mobile website, it works fine. There are a dozen or so reports or dashboards. It gives numbers and graphs, not at all complicated to figure out meaningful events. (i.e. this spike is probably the furnace fan kicking on, this spike is probably the microwave, this spike is the vacuum, this is the lights in this room turning on/off, this the tv).Also, we took a trip, and I logged in to see how much energy we were using, and we must have left in a hurry, because the house was using 900 watts baseline, oops. If your online gone for a few hours, thats 700 watts extra * 10 hours = 7kw * $0.10/kwh = $0.70 that you paid for nothing, so no big deal if your gone for a short duration, but if you were away for a week, with all that on, then oops. I’m considering adding smart light switches and outlets, that I can turn off remotely. I’m thinking Lutron Caseta for the lights, and Belkin wemo for the outlets. I’m not how long the ROI, from those things would take, but personally, I’d like to save energy. Also, when using energy, is something is a very short duration usage, such as a vacuum for 5 minutes, or a sander for 20 minutes, that doesn’t cost much energy in the grand scheme, but things that are always running, such as lights, fridge, furnace fan, office, that’s where you’ll want to pay attention to usage.The next thing I have planned for eyedro, is to take a look at how much energy my appliances are using. I could see how much energy the coffee maker uses, the refrigerator uses. Eyedro doesn’t have the ability to single out individual appliances, it just measures the whole-house, but, at 8am I started the coffee machine, and it used energy for 2 hours. The refrigerator has all of these cycles, that is pretty much continuous throughout the day. So, I could compare them to newer models that use less energy. Maybe, just pour my coffee into a carafe, or get maker that brews it into a carafe, and then turns off.Down the road, I’d like to add a solar panel electric system to the house, maybe. Before then, I’d like the house to be efficient with usage, so that I won’t have to buy as expensive of a system, and eyedro is helping me to steer that direction.Also, I was having issues with our internet, and since the eyedro is always uploading data to the cloud, whenever the internet would drop, I got emails that eyedro lost connectivity. Thus, I had data to tell my ISP that the internet had been flaky, and they replaced the modem.Conclusion: Its a nice toy to show off to others, but it gives you data, that helps you to take action to reduce your usage, to ultimately reduce your electricity bill. Its not just turn off the lights because I said so, but this light is using this much energy, and this is how much its costing us per hour. Lastly, if I were to buy this again, I would spring for the wireless version, save yourself the hassle of running a cable to your basement.

Reviewer: SteelCrash2209
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pretty good meter. Affordably priced and easy to install/setup.
Review: I bought this meter to monitor my power usage and determine what size of generator to buy for my house. For this purpose this device seems to be well suited and meets my needs. See lists below of specific items below related to my experience with this product.Pros:-Arrived fast-Easy to setup-Inexpensive compared to other options out there-Current transformers (CT’s) unhinge so you can get them around the cables.-Phone app is handy and it is cool to see how much power your house uses at all times of the day-Included instructions were simple and easy to follow.-Information updates almost in realtime to the website which makes it possible to view the changing load as you turn devices on and offCons:-Receiver unit only uploads the data directly with the Eyedro website through your internet connection, meaning if they company ever goes out of business or stops supporting this product then you can no longer use the product at all as there is no local readout or way to extract the metering data without accessing their website. (Note: Their website says they have been in business since 2009 so they have been around awhile and this may not be a big concern)-The data you can view, including the format, granularity, timescale, etc is limited on their website and there does not appear to be a way to customize it beyond the few standard options. EDIT: They have a feature on the web interface where you can export the data to a .CSV file which allows you to customize it beyond what is available on the website. This is useful to look at max, min and average usage over a longer timescale.-There are no Potential transformers (PT’s) included with this kit, the units appear to calculate power consumption based on the current (Amps) the CT’s sense and the voltage that you input for your system on their website during the initial setup process. This is fine as long as you realize the inherent limitations of this approach. Actual voltage and nominal voltage are not the same and actual voltage can vary throughout the day based on a variety of factors. If for example during the setup process you input your systems voltage as 120V but at a given time the actual voltage was say 109V or 130V this will effect the accuracy of your load calculations.

Reviewer: Brigo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This gives me the ability to monitor the power consumption of my new heat pump so I can see how much the electricity is costing me to cool and heat my home. It was not hard to install, although there are some gaps in the specific details of the setup. I have some knowledge of electrical so I could figure it out. The instructions for the configuration were not entirely clear. (Probably made sense to the engineer that wrote them…) and I am not clear whether I should be able to look at historical data for the current month. I can pull a report for previous months, but if I want to see last week I don’t seem to be able to do that. But with those things aside I love the information it gives me so I’m not even going to downgrade my rating from 5 stars. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reviewer: Jferrer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bastante bueno he logrado identificar los aparatos que gastan más luz, identificando los gastos excesivos he logrado bajar 40% el consumoEl precio se me hizo caro… pero ahora que se que es lo que gasta más luz he podido ahorrarla y ahí se pagará el costo de este equipoMe gustaría poder medir cada pastilla de luz pero solo hay esta versión que solo lee la principal

Reviewer: Alex
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: TLDR: It’s a decent home/small-business solution. Gives a much better overview of energy consumption vs what KW Hydro has on their website.Good:- The version I have (2 measurement coils, wired internet connection) is affordable (<150$ on Amazon).- Easy to set up.Power consumption samples up to every 10 seconds.- Almost real-time (~5-10 seconds delay).- Handles correctly power and/or internet loss.- The web interface is reasonably easy to use and share with other people.Has enough advanced settings to be able to automatically estimate electricity bills and time-of-usage/tiered consumption.- The platform can be extended with add-on metering devices.Bad:- Requires an internet connection and the my.eyedro.com cloud to see any stats or download data.- Does not accurately account for voltage drop (since it does not have volt-meter) and power factor (mine is ~90%). So it will show a slightly higher load/consumption than what really occurred. You'll need to adjust this manually, so it's not a "set and forget" kind of setup.- Might not immediately sense subtle changes in load (10w or less), especially when in "change of state" polling mode.- To measure individual circuits (eg. solar net-metering, baseboard heating) one would need a much more expensive version of the device (that has extra measurement coils and ports) or to buy another meter just like this one (for each pair of circuits). Reviewer: VC
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Unit intalled easily then the problems started piling up. User interface is not intuitive with all sorts of odd messages popping up.Tried to contact them for help…nothing !!!!!! The FAQ’s did not help and there is no way to contat a live person.

Reviewer: F Lab
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Simple to install, and it works well. Although it really just gives same info you can get from TorontoHydro login. No app (yet?)… and no real insights or abiltiy to tag/label electricity usage. For more insight look at the Sense monitor.

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