Has anyone tried energyhive?

A question about : Has anyone tried energyhive?

Has anyone tried this?

I think its different to the British Gas hive. This is just electricity.

Any feedback welcomed.

Thanks

https://www.energyhive.com/

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• I haven't seen this one - I've been using a Current Cost monitor linked to their own dashboard with an IP bridge (like the energyhive hub) for the past three years.
  It allows me to monitor my day to day energy consumption and identify what's on and what's not and to make sure stuff is turned off when not in use.
  However CC don't seem to be putting much effort into developing their product and their bridge isn't very reliable either insofar as it keeps losing it's connection to the router (although it's wired and not wireless) and has to be manually reset sometimes quite often.
  The energyhive product looks as though it has a bit more functionality (temperature monitoring as well) and as it's also compatible with my CC monitor I've just order the hub to try it out. The dashbboard looks more attractive than the CC one and appears to present the information in a more user friendly way. I'll report back when it arrives.
• Thanks Matelodave, have you ordered the temp sensors too?
  I was thinking of just getting the electric clamp/transmitter and hub.
  Let me know how you get on.
  JC
• I've just ordered the hub to try it out with my Current Cost monitor. If it proves to be a bit more reliable than the CC bridge then I might try a temp sensor or two in the future. I'm not really interested in the light or movement sensors.
  I'm sort of hoping that it will be able to monitor two inputs to the CC monitor as I've got my heating on a separate circuit to the rest of the household circuits. The CC monitor unit does actually record them separately via two clamps on the transmitter unit but they can only be read by downloading the data direct from the monitor to a PC via a USB cable. This is a bit of a faff as it requires the monitor unit data/power connection between it and the bridge to be disconnected and the monitor to be repowered via a separate PSU.
  The standard CC bridge will only pass one monitored channel plus one temperature channel (which isn't all that good either) on to the server unless I get it re-flashed, get another transmitter unit and pay CC some money (every year or so) to enable the dashboard to display the additional info.
  I'll keep you posted
• The energyhive hub arrived this morning (Thursday) which isn't bad as I only ordered it on Tuesday.
  It was up and running in less than 5 mins.
  Just plugged it into the router and power supply then onto the EH website, set up an account (free) it had recognised the hub and once I'd confirmed the MAC address it automatically paired itself with my Current Cost energy monitor.
  All I had to do was input my household voltage and energy cost and it now gives me an update of my energy consumption once every six seconds and a continuous plot of of what's being used.
  Which is better than the CC dashboard which only updates every 5 minutes. It will take a few days to gather some data until it can do any predictions or comparisons. The only slight disappointment is that it doesn't show two channels from the transmitter but as the CC didn't either I'm not really bothered
  So far very impressed - now going to see what it looks like on my Android phone
  Yes, it works fine, tells me what I'm using and also shows a plot of my ongoing consumption.
• After a couple of days where the CC bridge has disconnected itself twice and had to be reset, the EnergyHive hub seems to be rock solid. Try this https://www.energyhive.com/dashboard/dave to see what info is being generated
• I've used the EnergyHive Hub/Gateway for the past month, a great product and interesting to see what and when you use electricity. To help me see what's happening at home when I'm away,
  I've written a little Windows application (it run on Windows 7 as that's what I use, no doubt it will run on Win8) that will display the current start of your home electric. It tells you how much you're exporting via PV or when you're importing it. It displays different colours depending on how much you're importing, just like the little round display on EnergyHive Dashboard. Message me if you'd like a copy of it and I'll send you a copy. It's a single exe file, no install needed.
• It's all wireless - just connect the unit to your router and plug it in and it finds the CC transmitter all on it's own. You can turn off the CC display unit if you like.
  It's been running for two months now and not missed a beat - the CC bridge has had to be reset at least a dozen times and I've now given up with it as I'm getting what I want from Energyhive without the hassle.
  Energyhive has a proper app as well- it works on my Android phone & tablet, whereas you can only look at the CC dashboard using the internet browser
  You can also download the data into Excel files on the PC as well - I don't know if it will do it onto an Android device
• Have two multi-sensors working with the Energyhive system. Monitoring an old fridge for power, temperature inside and outside. Motion is also active on both sensors and as the fridge wobbles a little when opened, this is also detected by the motion sensor.
• They are bare boards but easily fitted into small Maplin boxes - although the light and movement sensors don't work if you unless you can find a clear box.
• They run from CR2032 coin cells.
  The temperature only modules don't work (I've got two) and as far as I know EH are still working at it. The battery should last about a year.
  The temp/light/movement modules look similar (EH sent me two to replace the non-functioning temperature modules). They still use a CR2032 cell but they only last about 3 months - you'll note that my display has given up on that because the batteries have probably run out. I haven't got round to replacing them yet.
  One module sits on top of a cupboard in the lounge and the other is in a plastic box located outside the house - the temperature aligns within about half a degree with my heatpump outside sensor display.
  I'll get some more batteries sometime this week (CPC-Farnell is a good source at reasonable prices)
• Just had an E-Mail from Energyhive to say they've sorted out the temperature monitor boards. So I've put new batteries in and I'm now waiting for them to be linked to my bridge
  Watch this space for an update
• The Energyhive multisensor detects temp, light & motion. Motion of the pcb itself in relation to a fixed source ie the planet. An accelerometer in fact, which is the device in your mobile phone, flipping the screen when you turn it around etc. Not to be confused with picking up movement in a room, which the sensor will not do. For details on the multi-sensor visit Aussie Home Energy's Support page.
  The location of the three sensors on the pcb and how to create a light tunnel etc. are also detailed. I simply used a clear box which does the job fine.
• how much is dos cost to get one an set it up ect