I have a philio zwave energy monitor setup for a while. it works flawlessly except that it sends too many reports. it has about 15 sensors and each of them sending reports about every 10 secs. this device alone creating about 90k records per day. I have been dealing with it by way of automated scripts deleting this data everyday. But now decided to get to the bottom of it.
In the zwave configuration there is setup option for reporting frequency which I set it for healthy 1 hour (720x5sec) but it makes no difference. Wondering if anyone else faced similar issue
I also have two of these Philio Tech swithes and they behave the same as yours.
Have you been able to reduce the report interval since posting this?
I have not and when comparing the openzwave configuration with the manual of the switch everything seems correct.
But even if you disable it from HA it will still keep flood your Z-Wave network, correct?
If you look in the Z-Wave log after you disabled them from HA, do you see them report in the log?
I had my sparky install one of these for me last week, and yes I noticed it does generate a lot of data. I also had to change the polling intensity before it would send anything. I’ve left the reports to the default hour, but changed the polling to every 1min, but have you tried changing the polling settings?
Unfortunately I am only getting Amp and Volt readings from it, and the occassional Watt blip. No kWh, which is the main reason I bought it. I checked how the sparky installed it and noticed the arrow on the clamp is pointing opposite the current flow (away from switchboard). Would this cause the 0 kWh readings, but still read Amps?
Maybe that’s half the problem. Only one clamp is installed before the main breaker (single phase). I’m going to get the electrian back to fix it up. So the two clamps should be connected to the mains coming in to the switch box with arrows pointing in opposite directions?
There should be 2 clamps on the wires or buses that goes into your 200A (US Standard) main breaker in your panel. One pointing into the breaker, one pointing out. This is due to the neutral line returning to the transformer to complete the circuit. The loads on both could be dramatically different as well, so you need them both to get an accurate picture of your power usage.
Thanks. I had the sparky sort this out for me a few months ago and have been able to monitor grid consumption pretty accurately. I was able to measure how much of a drain the new 17kw air con was sucking down power so decided to invest in a 10kw solar panel system. Unfortunately that now means the Philio meter measurements are all out of whack because it is now measuring the sum of imports and exports back in to the grid.
Anyone know if there is any parameter tweaks or recabling I can do to use this meter to only measure grid consumption??
I have had the same Philio zwave power meter for a while and I think my case is very similar to yours. I dont have my solar when I got it installed originally (with two clamps). It created 3 sensors for everything (power, energy, current, factors, etc). As far as I remember all three showed same values.
After few months i got my solar installed. At this point the values of these 3 sensors started showing different values. Little bit of analysis later, I realised that one of the sensors is now showing the solar upload, another one showing grid usage (download) and the third one is showing the net of the above two sensors.
You’re spot on! I should of looked at the stats over a bit more time. I’ve been monitoring the metrics for over a week now and the import/export values line up pretty close to what the power retailer is charging us. There’s about 0.6kWh unaccounted for each day, but not worth worring about. Thanks again.
The loads on both could be dramatically different as well, so you need them both to get an accurate picture of your power usage.