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GB98501
2025-08-03 14:39:08
It was easy to set up, but all I get in the smartlife app is a little graph of consumption. I want data that I can download.
ken
2025-07-31 12:55:29
By the instructions I could not monitor both poles of a 2 pole breaker. I could only put the CT on the phase the 120 Volt power breaker was on. I found out if I fed the power in 240 Volts from a 2 pole breaker. Installing the CTs on each leg of the 2 Pole monitored breaker with one CT arrow facing one way and the other CT arrow facing the other way it now does what I want it to do I have a reading on both channels and and they add together under total power but can still be read switching from A or B Chanel.
Robert brown
2025-07-21 17:31:40
The product does work but the Smart life app does not give me the information I was looking for. I wanted to monitor my pool pump and pool heater power. Both are 240 volts and you can only measure one leg of the power. I tried going to the amp calibration screen to double the amps, but I could only go up to 1.2 times and that feature didn’t seem to work. I wanted to see a daily KwHr for each device but it only has a graph with NO daily totals. It seems to just total the use from installation.I don’t really blame the product but the Smart Life app is horrible. Maybe they come up with their own app or convince Smart Life to upgrade theirs to something like the Emporia Energy app.
Jerry B
2025-06-25 10:29:06
This is a no-frills power meter that appears to be the same as Tuya.Good:-You can monitor power output on two 120v lines coming into your breaker-You can use this device to monitor total output in a circuit and it will subtract total input from a Solar panel system (if you have one)-App update allows you to see both circuits plus total combined-Server storage appears to be free, yay- Cost is super cheap for what they give you- This will update the App over WiFi or to your phone of the Internet (great)- Alarm set able for going over a max power (cool)Bad:- The graph for power is ultra tiny (non-usable)- The total kWh power and each of the two channel or circuit inputs cannot be reset to zero (haven’t found it yet)- No ability to add your time-based billing or any billing such as $0.40/kwh 11:00-17:00- No estimate of your bill for that month or week- No ability to download your data (haven’t looked further)- App link goes to sketchy site, go to App Store and download the official tested Smartlife app from there (looks like blue house with an arrow)- Setup was actually easy, but you have to register an email.- Don’t trust this device on a network with your other important devices, maybe put on a guest WiFi network- 2.4Ghz only WiFi, don’t expect 5.8Ghz- 5 second delay in turning on a light and seeing the power change in the App- Pay attention to your mounting of the current clamp sensors, both must point in the same direction, otherwise App thinks one is solar input and will subtract the power from the other channel.Overall, not bad. It feels like a nerdy engineer made it, but he or she forgot to ask what people want.This is most useful for alarm over max power, remote power monitoring, total monthly or weekly usage, and testing power draw on different home circuits, or monitor how much solar A/C is fed back to the grid versus your usage.
Angie
2025-06-14 17:26:58
I bought this product to monitor my tenants monthly energy use but unfortunately it is not capable of doing this. You can only see real time energy usage even though the product says it can do monthly and yearly in the description. I not only wasted my money on this but my time as well as paying electrician to install.
Edwin
2025-05-31 21:25:33
The device should provide max/min values for example “power†and Energy consumption. The device is limited to take pictures in a range of hours to provide a trend, which is correct and accurate, but it isn’t good for monitoring peak demands, evens of power consumption.
Ronald C. Elliott
2025-02-12 16:18:14
One channel didn’t work. I also suspected that the current sensor clamps didn’t work. They only gave me a 20% refund.
Brian
2024-12-03 11:50:21
I mounted this in my barn to monitor the RV outlet and act as a power meter of sorts for my RV. It was easy to get connected to the Smart Life app, and from there I integrated it with Home Assistant. I can see real time data within the Smart Life app, but not when polling from HA integration. I don't think this is a HA misconfiguration as I have plenty of other devices polling constantly from Smart Life w/o issue. This only reports back when the entire integration is reloaded.HA aside, this is a very bare bones item. The data in the Smart Life app is ok, but very small and hard to utilize. I cannot figure a way to export the data, which is why I attempted HA integration with this.Overall, it does show me the current draw, if I have the Smart Life app open and I'm watching it, so I suppose I can use this for power usage spot checks at a minimum.
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