Gadgetory

mm-hmm yep where is it let's be here today ah there is we've installed a lot of high-tech gadgets here at the scene at smart home and one of them is running up this Bigfoot sized electric bill that's why we're going to install a smart energy monitor and get to the bottom of this smart home energy monitors let you see exactly how much electricity your home is using in real time they can also pinpoint exactly how much electricity a particular appliances drawing and maybe predict how much it'll cost you in the long run lots of companies are getting into the smart home energy monitoring game we chose nerio because we recently reviewed the device we know how it works were familiar with its operation but I have to say it is not easy to install to matter of fact it can be a little hazardous but you know what i think our technical editor Steve Conway can do this in his sleep I probably could do this installation and muscly but I sure wouldn't want to installing the neuro has you dealing with very high current levels coming into your house and even when we shut the main breaker panels off which we're going to do you're still going to have to work in areas of the box where there is active current the first step is going to be to identify the two different phases in your box so you can see that we actually wired into each one of those phases on our double pole breaker and ran that back to the main Yorio device after that the nerio device also has a white neutral wire run your white wire from the neuro device to the breaker bar install it there now you can see that in our breaker box behind the main power lines we have a lot of wires there's not a lot of room to work in there so what we did is we actually jumped up to our common box in the middle where the two main sets of lines come in to power each of our breaker boxes and that's where we installed our sensors finally to install the antenna for the nerio we use one of the breakouts on the side of our breaker box punch it out install the antenna with the included grommets and then connect it to our near you and now Brian can see live energy usage on his phone with uriel now installed we can see main sections of the house where power is now being used we're talking ovens ranges microwave ovens dishwashers even powerful coffee makers okay now we're going to find out exactly which one of our gadgets is running the bill wait a minute that doesn't make any sense do we check the bathroom what are you doing in here what is all this stuff you're using this take selfies you know i'm just going to cost us for electricity one second