Abandoning GreenEye for Sense

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:30:28 +0000

I planned a whole house energy monitoring setup when we built our house. But in all these years I never completed the Brultech GreenEye installation, I officially called that plan abandoned, and instead installed Sense energy monitors.

First a bit of history, skip to the end if you’re not interested in my procrastination journey.

I installed my first energy monitor, circa 2009, The Energy Detective TED-5000 connected to Google PowerMeter.

Although our power utility (SCE) had installed smart meters, it took them several years, circa 2012, to enable Home Area Networks (HAN). I installed an EnergyHub Home Base, that turned out to be too unreliable due to the too long distance for ZigBee from the meter to our condo. I ordered the starter kit, that also included an energy monitoring power strip, but the power strip was unusable due to the excessively loud high frequency noise it generated.

Sense on Pieter Viljoen's Blog

Abandoning GreenEye for Sense