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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by alright2565 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @11:40AM (#39918906)
The Sense is way too expensive for the very limited capabilities it has. You get to pay extra for the machine-learning to mis-interpret your appliances!

The Emporia Vue is half the price and has a clamp for each circuit.

In this case though, the wall plug monitoring is definitely the right solution.

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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by ssl-3 on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:47PM (#39924313)
Can the Vue ever automatically differentiate between a rice cooker and a toaster that are plugged into the same branch circuit?

Sense, theoretically, can.

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Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker by alright2565 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:49AM (#40002132)
sure, just write a homeassistant integration. you have only 4 cases to handle:

- toaster oven on

- rice cooker on

- both on

- both off

I would be extremely surprised if the sense was able to detect a rice cooker accurately.

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