Hi. I have a bunch of Fibaro Wall plug FGWP102 that does correctly their job, but some of them, not all, return a weird consumption value from time to time.
“Normal” plugs returns values such as this :
Overall the trend seems ok, and with the “net_consumption” setting of utility_meter, I manage to get most of the time correct value, but on these dips and hips, my meters are off and all the charts I try to do with it are messed.
Do you know what happens? It is not on a single device, it is on 2 out of 4 of them !
My guess is that the first one reports (or you are looking at) the accumulated consumption, but the second is the consumption right now.
So both is probably correct, I would prefer the second, but that’s just me.
But is the issue that there is 0 consumption and up to 300 w consumption in there? What are these connected to? Is the device running all the time?
Probably, but this would be definitely a bug from the device or zwavejs, no?
One failing plug is connected to the washing machine, and the other to the fridge.
Well unless you are running the washing machine all the time then there is no reason it would accumulate like that.
Same thing with the fridge, it doesn’t run all the time unless the door is left open. (or does it?)
I hear our “kick in” every now and then so I assume it’s not running all the time, but perhaps there is some idle consumption.
Edit I see now that the first is only a few watts, that is probably the consumption of the power meeter/smart plug.
The first graph is normal, it is my network cabinet with the NAS that runs at 160 W constantly. It shows that it basically only goes up, which is normal for accumulation value.
The other graph is from the washing machine, it still goes up (beging is lower than the end) but there are these weirds changes in the values returned by the device, going down for a few minutes and then up, that is not normal at all for an accumulation value. Maybe I can find a way to delete these outliers by a template virtual device…
The problem is on the second. It is the TV system (actually) that does not run constantly, but instead of going just up when use, there are these down to 50 W (the TV system when running consumes around 150W)
