Consumer
Flume helped me find a leak I didn’t know existed
Calibration stuck and does not time out letting a stream of water run
Ironic how a product designed to save water wastes water
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Excellent Tool
I’ve had two pipe bursts and 2 leaks. This lets me sleep easy at night. I’m also more conscious of my water usage and budget. The whole system was easy to set up and monitoring on the app is intuitive. Flume is great!
Money saver
Flume has saved us lots of money. Our church has had times a toilet would be running for several days. Without anyone knowing. Flume alerts us when that happens.
Lazy iPad implementation
The iPad app in landscape looks like an iPhone app running. Pretty useless. The ML learning is also a day behind, so you have to remember what was happening a day or more before to fix the training data.
Got an alert while away
I got an alert today while I was out of town saying the last 2 hours water has been running at 1.9 gallons a minute. I called my daughter and told her to check faucets and toilets. She said the toilet was running. She shook the handle and it stopped running. If I didn’t have flume thousands of gallons would have been wasted before I got home to fix it. Thank you flume!
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Latest updates are helpful
I’m hoping the learned behavior update helps with false alarms when my sprinklers go off. Note that you have to manually enable this.
Horrible
Simply doesn’t work and customer support is only via email.
Good Customer Service!
I was having a problem with my Flume meter. It seemed like it was going through batteries way too fast. I was able to get another Flume meter and a flume bridge from a coworker who couldn’t use it anymore because it wasn’t compatible with her new water meter.
I was having difficulties scanning the QR code and getting the system set up but a good technician named Keller was able to figure it out for me, he entered all my data on his end, and it turned out that that worked very well.
This event ended up with a happy customer😊
I was having difficulties scanning the QR code and getting the system set up but a good technician named Keller was able to figure it out for me, he entered all my data on his end, and it turned out that that worked very well.
This event ended up with a happy customer😊
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Great and getting better!
Flume does a great job tracking water usage and detecting potential leaks, such as running toilets or dripping faucets. A user can set a threshold for the amount of time that water is running; Flume alerts the user when water has been continuously used for more than that threshold.
The newer algorithms also seem to take historical usage into account when alerting for leaks. We have whole house humidifiers on two furnaces. Although I’ve set my leak detection threshold to 3 hours, the app sometimes indicates that water was continuously being used for over 24 hours, which is not the case. It would be nice to be able to parameterize a usage reset interval; the current algorithm seems to ignore that usage dropped to 0 for at least 15 minutes. All of the “real” leaks I’ve seen in the past never drop water usage to 0 at all; there’s always a —sometimes minute— usage each minute.
The newer algorithms also seem to take historical usage into account when alerting for leaks. We have whole house humidifiers on two furnaces. Although I’ve set my leak detection threshold to 3 hours, the app sometimes indicates that water was continuously being used for over 24 hours, which is not the case. It would be nice to be able to parameterize a usage reset interval; the current algorithm seems to ignore that usage dropped to 0 for at least 15 minutes. All of the “real” leaks I’ve seen in the past never drop water usage to 0 at all; there’s always a —sometimes minute— usage each minute.
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Amazing Device
This unit was provided free of charge by my homeowners insurance company.
This device has helped me manage my water usage. I wish I had this device some months back when I had a drip irrigation malfunction and was hit with a $350 water bill, normally $170.
Since installing Flume, I’ve managed to take my bill from $170 to $110. The dashboard and detail sections are easy to navigate and provide helpful insight of your water usage. It’s very easy to install.
I highly recommend if you want to manage water consumption and bring your bill down a few dollars.
This device has helped me manage my water usage. I wish I had this device some months back when I had a drip irrigation malfunction and was hit with a $350 water bill, normally $170.
Since installing Flume, I’ve managed to take my bill from $170 to $110. The dashboard and detail sections are easy to navigate and provide helpful insight of your water usage. It’s very easy to install.
I highly recommend if you want to manage water consumption and bring your bill down a few dollars.
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Caught a leak from powder room over water heater!
Well I think it took it more than a day but it did catch an actual leak from our powder room (directly over water heater). Got notification and had to shutoff main and then figure out where the leak was.
The paid subscription makes no sense to me and should be free.
Data collection from app is also minimal.
Update: the app is broken!!
The paid subscription makes no sense to me and should be free.
Data collection from app is also minimal.
Update: the app is broken!!
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Flume Assessment
Once we got our connectivity issues resolved the flume system has worked perfectly. Anyone that travels should adopt this system. Easy to install and record keeping is a dream. An IT friend turned me onto this who has a rental house and used it for detecting leaks in his sprinkler system.
Awesome and works for mechanical meter but lack of Applehome/ SmartThings integration
It works with mechanical meter not for digital mete. I have been using for years and saved me many times. But it doesn’t integrate with smartthings and apple home. It will be much helpful if we can integrate with SmartThings and apple home so family members doesn’t need to have many apps. But still one admin member can install flume app to manage it. Not integrating is a very ancient old unfriendly way. We all appreciate if it integrates.
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Some App Flaws
This app is very useful and it detected an irrigation leak on the first day we used it. However, the app doesn’t allow rotation so you have to use it in portrait mode. Also, it doesn’t seem to work with Passwords. Can’t find Flume in the passwords app.
Does not detect leaks!
If you have a slow leak, flume will not detect it. Flume is only good for calculating a “ballpark” figure for your monthly bill. I put too much trust in flume and missed a slow leak under my house. Damage done, flume… useless.
Awesome!
You need this…it has saved me several times. Burst pipe, found in 5 minutes because of flume, toilet malfunction discovered after 15 mins by alert, put one in a house I am watching and was alerted to water usage that was the water heater blown out, watering system malfunction detected whike open and discovered after 25 mins…..there are so many things it has caught it has paid for itself multiple times.
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Something changed
It used to be accurate, but recently it’s changed. My sprinklers run on specific days, and sometimes it says they ran when they didn’t, which I can see in my rain machine app. Also giving inaccurate information for the amount my dishwasher actually uses.
Awesome water conservation app and system!
Five stars for this amazing system to help me track water usage and leaks in my home. Can you please consider the functionality and landscape mode for iPads? This would make it completely perfect!
