Christopher Null / IDGĪ simple dashboard gives you a quick look at water usage, even down to the minute. Flume asks you to run the water for a minute or two to ensure it’s detecting water flow, after which setup concludes and you can begin tracking your home’s water usage in earnest. Once you do get the sensor strapped to the meter (which shouldn’t take more than 5 or 10 minutes) and the bridge connected to your Wi-Fi network via Flume’s app, it’s quick work to get everything running. Flume includes rubber gloves and a plastic meter cover opener to help you out, which is convenient. The Flume 2 bridge installs inside your home and relays data from the monitor that’s attached to your meter to your Wi-Fi network.Īs a reminder, installation means getting your hands a bit dirty, unless your water meter is conveniently located in a basement or garage. The bridge hasn’t changed significantly, but it does look a lot more appealing now, and the spindly antenna that made the first version of the bridge look like a kid’s science project has been removed. The bridge is still a small device that plugs in to an outlet inside your house as near as you can get it to the sensor. To the fact that my water meter is located not near the house but rather at the street about 200 feet away, buried underground inside a concrete vault.
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