Aeotec by Aeon Labs ZW095 ZW095-A Home Energy Meter Gen5 Zwave Power Monitor Small White

This is working great with Homeseer 3 Pro (HS3) - the device installed without issue and created the needed children. Data started streaming immediately. I did have to add Volts and Amps the to Root "group" under settings, but then those started flowing as well. I turned off logging to the log file as it flooded the log file with very frequent updates. I was concerned about the orientation of the magnetic pickups and which outlet the z-wave device was plugged into - Aeotec support quickly answered my question that for a basic install, it won't matter. Seem the orientation really matter when you have solar and send electricity back to the Utility. Too soon to say anything about accuracy, but others indicate it is very close to the Utility. The standard HS3 Energy graph works well. Overall, very happy with this and integration with HS3

I've tried two hubs (Ezlo Atom with Vera, now Smarthings with the Aeotec hub) and it doesn't seem to work with either. It connects just fine, but doesn't give any power readings. I've tried reversing the orientation of one probe. That didn't change anything. Watts and KWH are both zero. Always. Also, one person in "customer questions" said that you can change the way it sums the two legs by changing "parameter 2", but I don't see any sign of a "parameter 2". Another reviewer said you need to get a custom driver. Great. I'll try to find the custom driver and see if that helps. This POS is anything but plug-and-play, expect to spend many hours trying to figure out how to make it work.

I have been using this device for almost 3 years now with Home Assistant, and it is still working great. The readings seem to be accurate. I compared my utility Meter to this device from May 29, 2023 to April 29, 2024. The Utility Meter shows 18,176 kWh in that time whereas this device shows 18,014 (0.89% difference) which was much closer than I was expecting. An excellent product.

I have 400 amp service and I was worried these wouldn't fit over the cables. I contacted support, and they said-- "of course they'll fit, they're plenty big". Well, they _barely_ fit-- I actually had to remove some electrical tape that was used to color-code the cables for them to fit. The kwh usage is dead-on. Matches perfectly to my outside meter. The interaction with SmartThings leaves a little to be desired. For starters, the device isn't instantly usable. You have to install device handlers from some dude "ClassicGOD" (yes, it's actually in their documentation to have to go pull from his Github, etc). The device handler isn't great. It won't let me input my cost per kwh for it to tell me how much I've spent. Also, the data refresh doesn't seem predictable. I want to have my smartphone in front of me while I flip breakers, and I want to instantly see the change in power consumption. But regardless of how I set the auto-refresh parameters, I don't seem to get regular updates. And the refresh button on the SmartThings device screen doesn't seem to do anything. But I get updates every 20 seconds maybe.

The meter installs in less than 5 minutes, if you have an outlet close enough to the main breaker panel (which I did). The only tool I needed was a screwdriver to remove the front cover of the breaker box, and to attach the meters back plate to the wall. The two clamps require no tools to snap over the incoming live wires (they are insulated, so technically there is no need to through the main breaker, although I did it anyway), then feed the two wires through the side of the panel and plug them into the corresponding jacks. Two screws to attach the back plate to the wall then plug the meter into an outlet and installation is done. Connecting to the VeraEdge controller was even smoother, on my iPhone clicked devices, hit the + icon tapped, Energy then selected Aeotec Meter Gen5, (note: I had the latest version of Firmware v1.7.35 & had the ERGY plugin already installed on my controller) then pushed the button on the device and snapped it onto the backplate. It took less than 30 seconds, to be paired and have 3 new devices with power readings. From my desktop I went to the home.getvera.com user login then logged-in and connected to my controller. One of the new devices just adds the other two (which are the two clamps installed around the two live leads from the meater), I renamed that one Main to be easier to remember. Then clicked on Energy from the left sidebar and Energy Profile from the accordiaon. I selected Main from the drop-down under 'Please select a device for total consumption, if applicable' then went to User & Account Info --!> Unit Settings and added a value to 'Cost per KWH (in my case $0.1125) and selected US$. When I returned to the dashbaord the Energy 'widget was populated and under Energy there are some neat charts and data summaries. waiting a few days, weeks, or months and the data will aggregate and become more meaningful. Great little devices, that was really easy to install and setup. Honestly, I know opening the main breaker seems complicated and scary but if you can install a three-way z-wave switch, then installing this meter is easier. Overtime a great deal of data is accumulated and aggregated, which can be useful in conserving energy and reducing utilities. I should note that visiting ERGY's website indicates that at somepoint they plan on charging for the data aggregation but that they are still working on UI7, so while right now all the data collection, etc. is free in the future that could change.

I have a main disconnect at my meter which kills power to my panel, making this install safer for me. The whole install process took less than 10 minutes since they simply clamp on. It was also very easy to pair with SmartThings. It did default to a zwave contact, but after I went into the IDE and changed it to a Aeon Home Energy Meter, it reports usage as expected.

Bought this Feb of 2018. It worked great for several months w/ST. Then issues started. This is definitely NOT a hardware issue. Any time power is lost I have to re-pair. Its not as simple as that. Disappointed with this. Wasted my money. Just threw it in the trash..

1. If you want something that works do not get this. Does not natively works with smartthings hub. 2. If you expect easy report on your power usage do not get this. Looks like I need to get/write the program to write power output somewhere. It looks like Google docs is platform of choice. 3. Overall everything has feel of unfinished high school project. Not sure if I want to keep it or send it back. Update: It took about the week to get Aeotec Home Energy Meter Gen5, Z-Wave Plus and Samsung smart things smart hub working together. I was bit surprised that I had to go to this community to get the code and another piece of code (Simple Event Logger) to log the data to google docs while I tried to generate the graphs from it and it was bit clanky especially when you start dealing with the big sets. So I turned to the graphing tool that has been around since end of 90s called mrtg. So it is now reliably logging and displaying the data in the format that makes sense to me Update: Year later I am happy with what I did and how it works, but and really hope they have native support for SmartThings hub now but if they are not my comments still accurate Increasing to 3 starts still a lots of work