Sense Energy monitor

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
I just installed the Sense home energy monitor. I’m still learning WebCore and just have some basic pistons setup. I also have ST and the google assistant relay running so I can get notified via google when some pistons run, I have installed the sense device handler and smart app to interface with smartthings. So I can see how much power I’m using I have a tile for total usage and would like for google to announce my total usage along with the cost before bed. Is this possible I don’t know where to begin honestly and any help would be appreciated.

2) What is the expected behavior?
Have Webcore poll my total electrical usage in Sense ST app and add cost per KWH and sum up my total cost for that day. Then have this announced via google home relay prior to me going to bed. Also it would be a good feature to have this info sent via text to several mobile phones. Trying to raise awareness of the cost of our electric bill.

3) What is happening/not happening?
Nothing I don’t know where to start at this point.

#2

Have you integrated the device in ST?

#5

I do have the sense energy monitor installed in smartthings. I’m just not that good with webcore and need assistance setting up a piston to do what I want with google relay.

#6

Do you have any pistons set up for notifications via assistant relay? What you are asking isn’t super complicated but it’s going to be tough if you don’t know the basics.

#7

Yeah I have several just not sure how to tell webcore to pull that information from Smartthings and do the math to give me an estimate. Also I upgraded Webcore awhile back so now it’s all changed and I’m really lost at this point.

#8

Well, let’s start with this, what type of period do you want to look at? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the sense will report back total energy used, correct? Or does it report back how much since x period of time? Can you take a screenshot of the capabilities? (select the device in the if part of a piston and it will list next to it.) Also, you’d have to know how often you want the check done and announced. Every 6 hours? How do you want the notification to go out, SMS?

#9

It does have a total usage. See attached ideally I would like to announce it right before I lay down at night so at a specific time. I have two young adults (My kids) living at home and I figured the best way to make them aware would be to text them at their numbers via SMS. I would also like to build on this later they are notorious for taking long showers which drains the hot water heater causing our total usage to spike for hours. I have done a lot to combat energy usage and it appears to be getting worse instead of improving. I installed gas heaters, range, and dryer earlier this year to help but it has since gotten worse. Anything I can do to raise awareness Thank you for your help!.

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#10

Hi @joetlawson

I was able to reduce having the sense energy monitor connected. Were you able to install the DTH, smart app and node server to get it to work with smartthings? Once you have done that, I’m sure webCore would be easy to use.

I am still struggling to get the dth and smartapp to create devices from sense energy monitor. Hope you had more success.

#11

I was able to get the DTH and node server up and running. I do see the devices in Smaertthings. The issue I’m having is the node server stops functioning and has to be restarted on a regular basis I’m hoping this is because it is fairly new. I run this on a windows server myself.

#12

I had major issues with Windows 10 server running the node and talking to ST myself I am looking to switch to Linux on a raspberry Pi or an old Android if I can figure that out.

Are you using Windows 10? It’s weird since it works well with my laptop but with my always on server , win 10 becomes a pain. Haven’t figured out the cryptic settings of win10, to get it to work yet.

#13

I’m running it on server 2016 what if you run the command prompt as admin? Have you tried that already?

#14

I might try that. for the time being though i ran it on a raspi3 and never had anymore issues. Still have my win10 home server I’d like to utilize so might be worth a try.

#15

Glad you found a work around for now at least.