| Dimensions | 10 × 5 × 5 cm |
|---|---|
| Control Method | Voice |
| Battery Type | Lithium (or other common type of battery with long lifespan) |
| Number of Batteries | 1 Product Specific batteries required. (included) |
| Power Source | Battery Powered |
| Compatible Devices | Tablet, Smartphone |
| Item Dimensions L x W x H | 10"L x 5"W x 5"H |
| ASIN | B08DX6MP8X |
| Brand Name | Flume |
| UPC | 810000901104 |
| Manufacturer | Flume |
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Flume 2 Smart Home Water Monitor & Water Leak Detector: Detect Water Leaks Before They Cause Damage. Monitor Your Water Use to Reduce Waste Installs in Minutes, No Plumbing Required
$249.00
- 24/7 SMART WATER LEAK DETECTOR: Flume’s smart water leak detection technology is always on guard alerting you to water leaks inside the home as well as in your lawn or garden. Gain peace of mind whether you’re at home or away with water leak alerts delivered directly to your phone via the Flume Water app. Stop water leaks and protect your home today with Flume.
- SMART WATER USAGE MONITORING: Dig up the details your standard water bill doesn’t with Flume’s smart water monitoring technology. Flume delivers detailed water use insight data directly to your smartphone so you’re always in the know. Take the guessing game out of your water usage and take control to reduce waste and conserve water
- REDUCE & MANAGE YOUR WATER BILL: A smart water monitor that pays for itself. Flume allows you to be proactive about managing your water use by protecting the planet and your pockets. Create water use budgets that use smart alerts to notify you of potential water leaks and waste. Flume has helped customers save an average of 10-20% per month on their water bill.
- INSTALLS IN MINUTES. NO PLUMBING REQUIRED: The Flume Smart Home Water Monitor is compatible with 95% of homes and installs in minutes. No pipe cutting, no wiring, no appointments. You’ve got it covered, but we’re here if you need us.
- SUBSCRIPTION NO LONGER REQUIRED: Get all the very best Flume has to offer including: custom water use budgets and water leak alerts, indoor vs outdoor water use, water usage by fixture and appliance and much more! All now available with your Flume purchase. No subscription, no contracts, just water.
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10 reviews for Flume 2 Smart Home Water Monitor & Water Leak Detector: Detect Water Leaks Before They Cause Damage. Monitor Your Water Use to Reduce Waste Installs in Minutes, No Plumbing Required
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SemoTech –
As someone who loves automation and smart devices I had already installed a live power monitor in my house, but was not aware of this product’s existence. Actually found it by chance while browsing and I am glad I did. There are two versions of the hardware and as of October 2020 the Flume 2 is the latest. This version has better battery life (see battery picture) and longer range. Interestingly enough after I registered for an account I got an email from Flume with a link to get a 50% off coupon from the water company, and a note about reaching out to my home insurance for a discount. I plan to do both and was very pleased.As for the device itself, it’s almost perfect but definitely a 5-star item. It’s just 2 pieces (plus a small power adapter). There is a sensor that is placed around the main water meter, and a small bridge box that connects to your home WiFi. Unlike the other systems I saw which you attach to a pipe and thus only measure water flow through that pipe, this attaches with a rubber band (provided) to the water meter and reads fluctuations in the magnetic field given off by the water flow inside, for your entire home. They even include rubber gloves and a tool to open the water pit in the street, wow!Setup was a breeze and the step-by-step process went very smoothly and quickly. Launch the App, scan a few QR codes from the devices and enter your WiFI and you’re off. Meter sensitivity seems good but I just installed it so its been operating for just a day, so we’ll see after a while. Already told me I used 85 gallons in about 30 minutes, ouch.Positives:* Super responsive and proactive support team! They reached out via chat in real-time as I got a leak alert in order to explain it and support me. I was very impressed.* Super easy and simple installation – from box opening to finishing the water sensor calibration it was about 15 min.* Works from very far away – mine is in a full metal box down the driveway about 200ft from the water meter, and still has perfect signal. I saw mentions of 1000ft+* Long battery life – supposed to last a few years but still to be verified* Very sensitive to water usage and will provide breakdown of usage by hour (broken into minutes), day, week and month.* Has website access for the interface, as well as an iOS and possibly an Android app.* Allows editing of weekly water budgets and specifying the number of irrigation cycles per day* Irrigation detection is in beta but has already shown it’s pretty accurate after use one day.Negatives/Feature Requeats:* Not really real-time – app says to pull to refresh and it’s delayed about 1min. It’s fine, but real-time would be much better, especially since it’s advertised as such and this is the 2nd generation Flume 2 hardware.* No ability yet to specify cost per gallon, fees and tiers, to compare with water bill and get early heads up on each month’s bill. – support said they are taking my feedback under advisement.* No HomeKit integration (would also bypass the WiFi selection and credential exchange, and make this setup more private)* Asks for a LOT of personal info, some it seems it could do without, but it may be for future features.* More detail/options in the iOS app, like comparing usage from different users with similar households would be nice.* Breakdown by appliance pool/irrigation/house is not implemented but suposedly coming in 2021, as per their support team.If HomeKit integration, real-time readings, and water cost as well as device usage is added, this would be 100% perfect. But do not let any of the “negatives” scare you, the positives greatly outweigh them and since it’s software I am sure most will be resolved.
E. Nellen –
I have had 2 sprinkler supply line breaks in the past year.Three years ago my water main broke.I decided to get a Flume 2 Smart Water Monitor.I had my doubts, but the other reviews seemed reassuring.It was very easy to install. The monitoring is exceptional.I got alerts the first night because my sprinklers used a bit more water than the default alert limit.The app and the web site are excellent.It alerts me regarding excessive flow and water running a long time, regardless of the location of the leak.I can also see how much water I’m using when I add water to my pool and when I’m using a pressure washer.Highly recommended, well worth the cost.
MaxSwimmer –
Update 6/19/23: I have had my flume 2 for two years now. Works great- but lowering stars due to flume’s changing the replacement battery to “proprietary”. My original pack that came with the unit lasted two years. The original pack is simply a holder for 4 AA lithium cells you can get anywhere. But Flume now wants you to buy a replacement pack for $14. It uses four AA cheap no-name Chinese cells spot welded in a plastic housing. Field reports indicate these cells last far less than the factory Everready cells that came in my original Flume2. So they sell you cheap, no name cells that last far less. Very disappointed Flume tried to change the battery type to proprietary, when we all know it is 4 AA lithium in the package. The approach is greedy and NOT environmentally friendly. The four “blue” spot welded AA are cheap, and don’t last as long. So, Flume added cost and materials (spot welding, molded case), all adds energy, not readily recyclable, and takes far more energy to manufacture and ship than the user replaceable original. Fortunately, I have the original reusable cage and will forevermore replace my own. Shame, Flume. Shame.Pros: Easy install, very good and responsive customer support.Cons: battery- see above. Missing a signal strength indicator on the app; I had a unit that could not connect reliably at 60 feet line of site- Customer support can see the signal strength, I could not- so no ability to self-diagnose.First, I LOVE the FLUME 2, when it worked. The first unit I received worked for 12 hrs- I enjoyed seeing the water usage patterns- but then it just stopped working- it lost connection between the Bridge and the sensor at my meter. The only way to regain connection was to remove the sensor from my meter and bring it close to the bridge. I spent days on the app chatting with Customer support, trying different things. In the end, they said: Just return it, it won’t work in your application. I said “but wait, surely it should have more than 60 feet range?, maybe mine is defective”. Eventually I had to “escalate” (to a manager), who authorized a no question asked shipment of a new unit. I installed it, verified it worked great- my meter is in a “vault” with a cement cover. I ended up being able to put the bridge about 100ft away, near a window but not facing the window. So the first unit WAS defective (low range). With the 2nd unit, I have now had great water monitoring experience. And, the customer support (via app chat) WAS very responsive.I dock one star for: a) no signal strength meter on the app? That was the problem- a simple set of bars would tell you if your bridge and sensor have enough strength. b) I had to convince them something must be wrong with the first unit, and ask for a supervisor/manager to intercede. c) there should be more troubleshooting/diagnostic tests and tools for self-diagnosis, without having long chat sessions with Support.FLUME customer support did the right thing, we figured out together that Flume 2 could work in my setup. High marks for the overall experience- they brought a 1 star (when they said “just send it back”) to 4 star because of Customer support- they were always patient and polite…
jody52770 –
I was having unusual water bills. This is Awesome. Tells you every gallon and time. Definitely worth the it. Note: order a extra battery. It’s not included. Very easy to install. 1 Just strap sending unit around water meter with strap. 2 install receiver to WiFi and and app on phone. Love it.
J. A. Sperling –
Update after a month: It notified me of a potential leak (after 2.5 gpm ran for 2 hours). Eventually I found that a toilet flush valve had broken and the toilet was perpetually flushing. This notification helped me find the leak much sooner than I otherwise would have, saving me a bunch of water. After that experience, to catch leaks sooner I created 2 custom alerts to let me know of any water flow that lasts for more than an hour or any flow above 2.3gpm that lasts more than 10 minutes (nothing in my house uses more than this, though I may get notified if 2 people are showering at the same time)Original review:Seems very accurate. 24 hours after installing it I compared the water usage from this monitor to the water usage on my utility’s water meter, and they were within 1% of each other.Setup was mostly surprisingly easy, with 3 annoyances/concerns:1) As the app is setting up it needs to read 2 qr codes that are on stickers on the bottom of the base station and the monitor. No matter how hard I tried, the app wouldn’t read the qr codes. However, my phones camera app read them instantly. When the phone read it, it popped up an ID that I could then copy and paste into the app.2) What happens if I need to repeat the setup in the future, but the sticker with the qr code on the monitor (which is sitting outside and exposed) is no longer readable? There should be a sheet of paper in the box that also has the QR codes in them, which can be kept dry and saved.3) The plug for the base station is one of those cheap ones that makes a soft high-pitch coil wine that some people (like me) can hear. It’s a noise I usually only hear in very cheap phone/usb chargers.
Matt –
I installed the Flume several months ago and I have to say, I am impressed with its simplicity and effectiveness. Set-up was very easy and the app is very informative. I can quickly confirm water usage in real-time and assure myself there are no leaks and also review ongoing water usage with the built-in reporting. All and all a very effective device and I am very pleased with my purchase.
jl –
I’ve had this thing for over 3 years now and I’ve given it every chance possible. I’m on my THIRD replacement unit. First unit I was getting inaccurate readings so support asked me to check the device and take a photo of it. From the photo they claim it somehow got water inside. Not sure how since it’s fully sealed and located in a covered underground spot that never got soaked..but whatever I got a free replacement. Then just earlier this year, the replacement device just stopped working. Did same procedure and they didn’t say what was wrong and just send another replacement.In ALL of the devices, none were recording quite accurately. It records well when i’m actually running water. But it also records usage when nothing’s running in the house. They had me do calibration and accuracy tests over and over. No change. I have the allegro meter and it’s a digital one so it looks like it’s simply incompatible with this device. Also I did also verify through my city’s water portal to compare numbers and the Flume records higher usage consistently.
Piraha Mura –
I have a slab leak. While rerouting the pipes I’m looking for a water usage monitor and remote shut-off valve. I have doubts about a battery-driven monitor without plumbing. But it ends up being my best option.First, if I can’t monitor the main meter, I have to buy 3 monitors, one for the house and 2 for irrigation. I can change that but it requires a lot of work – digging.My meter is underground on the public sidewalk. It looks dark and small in there and I didn’t think the Flume will fit inside. But if somebody can plumb something in there, there must be plenty of space for the Flume.The other thing is meter compatibility. I have a Neptune without clear markings so it may be the one that is not compatible. But I think as long as you don’t have a too new one, it should be compatible.The installation is easy. You just need to tie the Flume on the side of the meter with a thick rubber band. I had two potential problems. When the app tries to connect with my wifi, an error shows up telling me to retry. It doesn’t surprise me as my wifi 6 has the same SSID for both 2.5 and 5 GHz. I might have tapped retry and they the app jumps to calibration without confirming that my wifi is connected. I tried to confirm before putting my Flume down the rabbit hole. There’s no way to go back on the app. There’s no wifi indicator. I tried to add a new device but it wasn’t allowed because all the devices have a serial number. So I just put the Flume next to the meter and it worked.The 2nd potential problem is that the app tells me that the Flume moved more than once. It hasn’t.I could have calibrated the app with the readings on the meter. But I’m impressed enough. I think the Flume is detecting the rotation of the red dial, which is exactly what the meter does to measure water flow. If a metal or a magnet rotates, it will disrupt the electromagnetic field around it. So without calibrating, I believe the Flume will be accurate, maybe occasionally missed a turn.First, it’s reassuring that my slab leak isn’t deteriorating into a measurable amount on the meter. When the app says zero, the red dial doesn’t move and I don’t have to pay for the leak.I reseeded the lawn and I was using a lot of water since to let the grass grow. But the Flume tells me I’m using over 300 gal of water a day when the sprinklers are on. I checked and all leaks are very minor. I have the incentive to change the watering program.And recently I removed the flow limiter on my showers. The app tells me that it’s about a quarter for a long shower.The usage report is on every hour. So you can know how much water you use for the washing machine, dishwasher, and maybe flushing if you plan enough.Now for the remote shut-off, instead of an expensive valve, I found a mechanical “hand” to turn off the quarter valve for about $40. I tried and it should work. But it doesn’t fit my very old valve because it is very bulky – the valve body is much thicker than the pipe. Any newer valves will fit.
Amazon Customer –
Gives a wealth of information once installed. Photo meter identification feature didn’t work, so I edited a picture online on my phone of a similar meter & submitted it to “fool” the registration, with 1 hand, in the bushes on my knees in the mud while holding up a cement slab cover over the meter pit being eaten alive by mosquitos and assaulted by spiders. A drop down list meter ID option would have been nice. Tip: They don’t tell you that there is space inside the sensor for a 2nd battery pack, which I purchased & placed prior to installation, well worth it to double the run time & delay my return to the pit. Already discovered irrigation system programming errors, a mystery leak & new water saving options. A great addition to any smart home. Addendum: Discovered my daily water use per my utility is exactly 56% of the value on Flume. So I’m just mentally cutting all the Flume readouts in half. Probably a meter ID/calibration error, but one I can easily live with.
Frank N –
This is a first pass at reviewing this device. I will add to it when I learn more. It was recommended (but not sold) by an irrigation professional contact . Amazon got it to me in 3 hours and I installed it 5 hours ago. Reason for buying was having an alarm to notify me of a leak in irrigation system (common and cost/waste of water is the big motivator) or an alarm in terms of leak inside of house when I am away from home (cost of water damage issue) . Secondarily to look at useage in various branches of the irrigation system as well as pool evaporation.My meter is in a well in the front yard like many properties in the greater Phoenix area. The well is ~ 50 feet from the house. FLUME gives you a handy tool to open the lid on your well. The sensor simply straps to the meter and this takes 2 minutes.”Sensor” is a bit of a misnomer because it does not really sense flow direcly. It senses the rotating magenetic field of an impeller in the water meter. In effect eh FLUME sensor is eaves dropping on the flow meter in the water meter. Looking at Patent 10750253 confirms this. Clever! So you would think that clever scheme would then report 1:1 exactly the same flow rate as the water meter. FLUME tech support remotely ran a calibration (as a favor) while I asked them for support in getting the radio link working better. You would think that it would have been really accurate after a calibration by FLUME tech. FLUME now measures 100.8 Gal while my water meter reports 103.4 Gal. a -2. 6% error. I could live with that error in the auto calibration if they woudl give you some place in the UI to manually enter the 1.02579 calibration factor so that the meter an FLUME would read 1:1. But there is no way to enter a calibratin factor manually. The sensor is batery powered and has a low power 900 MHz radio transciever to communicate witeh the WiFi bridge. Thsi is challenging becsue the sensor is in a small well and has no direct line of sight. WAHt is really frustating is that they is no singal level indicator to aid yo in moving the WiFi Bridge around to get the best signal. You can’t call FLUME. The only tech support is chat which is anoying becuse it seems tht the support person is trying to deal witeh 4 other people at the same time as you. So I tried the chat and could not convince the tech to give me some numerical readings. It turned into game of warmer – colder. Tech informs me that FLUME purposely left the signal strength indicator out of the UI because it was too confusing. Not sure whey they can’t give us the 5 bars we have had on cell phones for 25 years. The warmer – colder over a chat was pretty frustrating. Eventually he shared the actual reading number with me and I got a better sense of what was making a bigger difference in increasing signal. And the sensor connected well enough to let FLUME tech do a calibration.I had really hoped to optimize the location of the Bridge because I did not want a marginal RF link situation with the radio doing a lot of retries and consuming the proprietary battery more quickly as well as possibly missing data. Eventaullay a tech lead got on the chat and things went a bit better. I ended up putting the Wifi Bridge in a second floor window witeh a better view into the well. But I had not yet put the concrete lid back on the well when the 7 pm cutoff for tech support happened. Is seems to be conneced now but not sure how robust it is without a signal level indicator. Will “chat” again tomorrow with support.Also , FLUME is limited to classifying water usage by various devices in the household. I had hoped to be able to have the 9 different sprinkler zones as separate elements of my irrigatin system to dermine say if if say one zone is leaking . It will not do that. You have to sort it out from the 1 minute resolutin bar graph on your phone (that can’t be exported as CSV for analysis in Excel).I will add to this review as I live with it a bit longer.