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How do I obtain something that confirms that we are a Flume monitoring device? Our homeowner's insurance policy offers a discount on the premium if we have a monitoring device. Unfortunately I cannot locate any documents confirming that we are a Flume customer and have a monitoring device. Our device is attached to the main water line and we get a daily readout.

The API is super useful and I appreciate the openness with our data, however it's not really actionable in real time. Leak detection value is really in time to action. Sure, I can poll the API every minute, or every few seconds even, but that's massively inefficient for both client and server. E-mail and Push are already present, but those don't integrate with other systems well. With a webhook I can write my own listener and kick off whatever automations I want - it's the universal, baseline design for event notifications 😃

Looking for a way to let Flume know when my sprinklers are running so it can categorize the usage accordingly. Would be a big plus so it would prevent leak alerts for those activities

Hi - I am the author for the openhab binding supporting the Flume water meter. The binding currently keeps a cumulative water usage meter (similar to the reading on your water meter). To do that, when the binding starts, i query water usage for multiple years (since 2016) to set a baseline and then subsequent queries are done for shorter periods and I just add to the baseline number.

Your customer-facing service web pages tell me how to place the Flume receiver for optimal signal strength. Your service staff adds a few additional details.

The GPM value responses to the 'get current flow rate' query does not correspond to the values in the app dashboard; eg while the clothes washer is filling I am seeing a few minutes of ~2.5 GPM via API polling and the dashboard shows ~3.8 Gallons in the 'per minute' bar graph view for the same time span. The ratio doesn't suggest an obvious (to me) unit disagreement; what explains the different values?

What is the battery life ??

The user dashboard shows the current flow rate. I do not see a response in the API that includes this metric. Is it available in the API?

Hi - I'm writing the binding for to support Flume devices for openhab. Given openhab has its own persistence service, I'd like to query a cumulative number of gallons used over time. I have a few questions:

Is there/will there be any API support for getting water use breakdown by type/appliance?