![]() Flume alerts you of abnormal (or accidental) water usage to give you peace of mind. Surprises are fun, but not when it comes to leaks. Flume enables customers to manage, monitor, and conserve water in their home. I’m looking at in-line Wi-Fi water meters now instead. The Flume app connects with a Flume Water Sensor installed on your home’s water meter. I hope I’ve spared at least a few people the pair I went through. I highly recommend you look for other products instead of this. I wasted an enormous amount of time trying to get this to work. Flume should be upfront about all these details and are not. The hardware is far more sensitive to distance than their marketing would suggest and they also don’t disclose that this distance quoted is for a plastic covered meter box. In such applications, flumes are often the more. If the liquid stream being measured is drainage- or waste water, a substantial amount of solid debris may be present in the flow that could cause repeated clogging problems for weirs. In summary, the app is poorly designed and doesn’t not function well in anything but the happy path I imagine they tested. Flumes are generally less accurate than weirs, but they do enjoy the advantage of being inherently self-cleaning. So ironically the device meant to save water would have you waste a whole lot of it. Itll save you moneyeven if it never detects a leak. It tells you to run water but if the device can’t be reached, there’s no message telling you this is the case, and much worse, there is no time out. Flume Smart Water Monitor review: Smarter than your average leak detector. Once you do connect which I could only do with help from tech support (and I’m very technical), the calibration step is also terrible. The pairing with the hardware is terrible - slow, fails repeatedly, and without any meaningful feedback. The app itself is one of the poorest I’ve ever used. I really wanted this to work, so much so that declined their offers for a refund at first.
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