Review on 🔍 Track & Save Money with Eyedro Home Solar & Energy Monitor - View Energy Usage via My.Eyedro.com (No Fee) - Real-time Electricity Costs - Net Metering - EYEFI-2 (WIFI) by Bob Fasho

Works great. There are several ways to analyze current and historical data. Charts are very useful for tracking or just observing energy consumption. You have the choice to view current accounts, monthly/weekly/daily/hourly consumption, weekly reports, real-time consumption (15 minute to 24 hour chart), vampire (phantom) consumption and more. This can be viewed in a browser on any computer or phone. There is no dedicated app, but the mobile site works well. The mobile site lacks some features and settings compared to the full site (mostly simplified with larger fonts), but you can tell your phone browser to show the site on desktop if you want. It really helped me understand why my bills were so high and helped me figure out how to lower my bill. One of the things that became clear was that taxes and fees make up almost 50% of the bill! I've reduced my bill by over $60 a month with a few changes. I was surprised that the dryer is so energy efficient, so I bought a clothesline and saved a lot of money during the summer months. I was able to justify installing a new heat pump water heater that saves about $40 a month in electricity and pays for itself in about two years by seeing the power consumption of my old water heater. Installation was easy but if you are unfamiliar with high voltage precautions you will need to learn them or hire a professional to safely install this for you. This is a particularly dangerous part of the circuit breaker panel because the sensors on this device are in front of the main switch where you can't turn off the power so it's always live. The pickups simply click on any incoming hot wire, so nothing is electrically disconnected. Also, connect the cartridges to the transmitter, connect the receiver to an available ethernet port somewhere in the house and set up your account on the Eyedro website. The only thing this device doesn't do is tell you which device is on. by name. You can peek and find out what devices are on if you watch long enough, in my case a few days of random monitoring. Things like the oven, refrigerator, TV, coffee maker and many other things are pretty easy to see because they have a unique signature when they turn on and off. Some things, like lights, are a little harder to tell which light is on, but you can still tell it's on. As far as I know, the more expensive "smart" systems aren't much better at it, but they cost a lot more. Monitoring is done over the internet and this part works fine. It would be nice to have direct local monitoring and not rely on the cloud, but that's not how most things work these days. I worry less about this company than I do about some electrical systems monitoring start-up companies, but I always worry about what happens if the company decides to stop supporting the device.