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The Ultimate Christmas Gift: How Home Energy Solutions Benefit Every Homeowner

The Ultimate Christmas Gift: How Home Energy Solutions Benefit Every Homeowner

The ultimate Christmas gift for every homeowner on your list is an Eyedro Home Energy Monitor.  With the help of an Eyedro, homeowners can audit their energy usage, then make adjustments to ensure home comfort and energy savings year-round!

 

Transform Your Home into an Energy-Efficient Haven

With a small amount of effort, you can convert your home into an energy-efficient nest. Sealing drafts, adding insulation, replacing appliances with energy-efficient models are simple steps that can do wonders in reducing your consumption of energy. This will make for a more comfortable space and cut down energy bills so that you are able to enjoy money savings throughout the year.  These upgrades will also add value to your home. Most prospective buyers consider energy efficiency an important consideration.

 

Energy Efficiency Incentives for Homeowners

Many states, provincial, and local governments provide incentives for homeowners investing in renewable energy solutions like solar panels through rebates, grants, and tax credits. This cuts down the upfront investment, but more importantly, it creates reduced energy expenses over time.

 

Improve Comfort and Quality of Life

Quality insulation and draft-proof windows keep out cold drafts during the winter and keep your home cool during the summer, thereby maintaining comfortable temperatures throughout your home.  A comfortable home is conducive to good mental health and wellbeing.

 

Contribute to Environmental Sustainability

An Eyedro Home Energy Monitor helps with environmental sustainability. When energy consumption is reduced there is less demand for fossil fuel. Many homeowners have started shifting toward renewable resources, such as solar and wind. A commitment towards sustainability will benefit not only the planet but also set a very good example for the coming generation.   You can track your solar production with an Eyedro as well! With a second Eyedro you can monitor production, generation and net.

 

Select the Right Home Energy Solutions

Making smart choices regarding home energy solutions is all about maximizing the benefits. Begin by utilizing your Eyedro Home Energy Monitor to perform an energy audit on your home  – your Eyedro is great for this!  Once you know where you are wasting power you can take action to reduce energy by the use of timers, energy-efficient appliances, and the constant reminder that your MyEyedro real-time data provides.

Every homeowner on your list will appreciate an Eyedro under the tree this year!!

 

Energy Monitoring Made Easy

Suggested Next Topic:

 

Do Christmas Lights Use a Lot of Electricity?

Super Eyedro Tips: Switch From Ethernet to WiFi Connection

Super Eyedro Tips: Switch From Ethernet to WiFi Connection

Switch From Ethernet to WiFi With the Browse Feature

Have you connected your Eyedro to communicate by Ethernet but have decided to switch to a WiFi connection instead?

 

Here is a quick list of the steps involved in making the switch (more detailed instructions follow).

 

To make the change from Ethernet to WiFi, go to the Configuration menu, then select Devices.

 

  1. Select your Eyedro device from the Device list.
  2. In the Device Info section check the Show Advanced Info box.
  3. Click the Browse button.
  4. The Eyedro Dashboard will open up in a new browser window. Click the Setup Wi-Fi Connection button.
  5. Enter your WiFi network name in the Network (SSID) field (must be 2.4 GHz).
  6. Enter your network password in the Password (Key) field.
  7. Click Connect!

 

Step One

Select your Eyedro device from the Device list.

Browse network step 1 in MyEyedro Devices

Step Two

Make sure that Show Advanced Info is checked (opens advanced settings):

Browse feature in MyEyedro step 2

Step Three

Select the network Browse button to open the Eyedro Dashboard webpage. 

Note that your computer (browser) must be connected to the same network as the WiFi network that you intend to connect to.

Switching from Ethernet to WIFi with the Browse feature in MyEyedro Step 3

Step Four

Once the Eyedro Dashboard opens select the Setup Wi-Fi Connection button:

Switching from Ethernet to WIFi with the Browse feature in MyEyedro Step 4

Step Five

When the Eyedro Wi-Fi Settings page opens up, enter your network name and password then click Connect.  Wait for 30 seconds then disconnect the Ethernet cable from your Eyedro.  You may also need to unplug the power to the module for 30 seconds to reset the device.

Switching from Ethernet to WIFi with the Browse feature in MyEyedro Step 5

Energy Monitoring Made Easy!

Eyedro User Manuals

For detailed Eyedro product specifications, installation, and MyEyedro cloud software information please refer to the following Eyedro manuals:

MyEyedro Cloud Software Manual

Eyedro Home Products Guide

Eyedro Business Products Guide

Eyedro Technical Support

Advanced Alerts

Advanced Alerts

MyEyedro Pro Advanced Alerts

Unlock the feature rich functionality of a MyEyedro professional license.  Some of the features MyEyedro Pro provides include:

 

  • Advanced Alerts:
    • Consumption Thresholds
    • Instantaneous Thresholds
    • Continuous Thresholds
    • Average Demand Thresholds
  • Asset Intelligence

 

  • Reports:
    • Asset Metrics
    • Asset Ranking
    • Events & Alerts
    • Device Uptime
    • Device Settings
  • Data Storage:
    • 5 years vs. 2 years
  • Data Exporter Ranges:
    • Extended for Electricity, Water, Gas & Temperature

See MyEyedro Pro in Action!

Unlock advanced alerts, asset intelligence, asset profiles, advanced reports, RETScreen integration, and more with a MyEyedro Pro license.

Contact Eyedro Sales for more information.

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MyEyedro Bills Plugin

MyEyedro Bills Plugin

MyEyedro Bills Plugin

With MyEyedro you have the ability to view up to 2 years of monthly Bills history, load dollar and kWh values by clicking on a specific month, adjust the start date to match the billing period of your utility, get a current usage summary as well as your projected consumption for the month and more!

There are direct links from the MyEyedro cloud pages to the MyEyedro user guide for help on any of the Configuration menu items.

Super Eyedro
  • Get at-a-glance usage information
  • View historical monthly Bills data
  • View day-by-day consumption and projections for the month

In the MyEyedro Bills plugin first select the Display Group that you wish to view. 

Display Group selector in MyEyedro

MyEyedro 

Select from a number of useful options from the right-hand panel (click the More Options checkbox).  You may need to click the gear symbol to expand the right-hand panel to view these options.

Bills plugin Options panel

Here is an example of the y-axis details option:

MyEyedro Bills y-axis details

MyEyedro Bills Panels

The Bills plugin allows you to view current Bill to Date usage, projected usage, and historical usage data by month and by day.

Electricity bills can be customized in the MyEyedro Bills plugin

More Details

Hover over the daily bars in the Bill Details panel for more information.

MyEyedro Bill Details mouseover

Hover over a monthly bar in the Billing History panel for usage data. Click on the bar to load the usage history for that month.

MyEyedro Bills plugin Billing History data

Change Your Billing Start Date

Click on the pencil icon below the Billing History panel to adjust the Bill Period start date.

MyEyedro Bills plugin bill period start date

From within the Bill Period edit panel select the month that you would like to adjust.  Note that only the start date can be changed.

MyEyedro Billing History bill period edit

Energy Monitoring Made Easy

Unlock advanced alerts, asset intelligence, asset profiles, advanced reports, RETScreen integration, and more with a MyEyedro Pro license.

Eyedro User Manuals

For detailed Eyedro product specifications, installation and MyEyedro cloud software information please refer to the following Eyedro manuals and Support menu:

MyEyedro Cloud Software Manual

Eyedro Home Products Guide

Eyedro Business Products Guide

Eyedro Technical Support

Holiday Electrical Safety

Holiday Electrical Safety

Electrical Safety Checklist

It’s that time of year again, you’ve hauled out miles of Christmas lights and are preparing to make the holiday bright, but have you taken the time to inspect your seasonal bling? Here are some things to check:

  • Check plugs and cords for damaged insulation (cracking, fraying, exposed wires)
  • Are your decorations CSA or UL approved (or other applicable certification by country)?
  • Are your light strings and plug-in decorations rated for outdoor use?
  • Does the receptacle that you are plugging your lights into have a Ground Fault Interrupter (GFCI)?
  • Are your extension cords rated for outdoor use?
  • Don’t overload a circuit by plugging in a larger load than it can handle (i.e. multiple devices, light sets, etc.)
  • Remember to secure your ladder when hanging decorations high on your home!

 

Electrical Safety Indoors

There are some electrical safety tips that are important when decorating the great indoors:

  • if you have a live Christmas tree, remember to water it regularly over the holidays so it doesn’t turn into a dry kindling fire hazard (spiky needles all over the floor are very unpleasant as well)
  • Be mindful of your heirloom decorations which may run hotter than modern LED lights (see dry kindling tree above)
  • Never run electrical cords under carpets
  • Never plug a heater in using an extension cord if you are feeling chilly while decorating (or any other time)

 

The Perfect Gift for Every Homeowner on Your List!

Want to know how much energy you are using when running all those twinkly lights, and blow-up Santas? There’s no better way to monitor your electricity usage than with an Eyedro Home Energy monitor.

 

Energy Monitoring Made Easy

Suggested Next Topic:

 

Do Christmas Lights Use a Lot of Electricity?