Has anyone tried energyhive?

mettlemickey

Has anyone tried this?

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

Any feedback welcomed.

Thanks

http://www.energyhive.com/

matelodave

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.

mettlemickey

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

matelodave

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

matelodave

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.

matelodave

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 http://www.energyhive.com/dashboard/dave to see what info is being generated

oskar866

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.

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matelodave wrote: »

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.

Hi,


Is there any physical connections between the Energyhive hub and the CurrentCost monitor or is it all wireless?


Cheers

matelodave

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

PowerCut_2

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.

Andy_WSM

PowerCut wrote: »

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.

Are the multisensors in boxes or bare circuit boards as their website shows?

If they are housed - are they suitable for outdoors? i.e one for indoor, one for outdoor temperatures?