There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Product Library / Energy, Solar & EV
DiscontinuedSense Home Energy Monitor
Compatibility at a glance
Does it work with your platform?
Choose your platform to see its setup and functions. Your choice carries across product pages.
A connection can work while individual controls or automations remain unconfirmed. Read the connection details ↓
Before you buy
What do you need to make it work?
No hub — the monitor installs in the electrical panel, joins your Wi-Fi and reports to Sense's service, with nothing to buy in between. What matters more than the hub answer on a discontinued product is what the monitor depends on, and the answer is a company: everything this device does useful — the disaggregation that identifies individual appliances from the mains signal, the history, the app — happens in Sense's cloud. There is no documented local path. So the practical dependency is not hardware you might need to replace, it is a service that has to keep running, and the company operating it has changed business model.[9][22]
Unknown. No Sense surface read names Apple, HomeKit or Siri, and no Apple-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none because Sense has not said the platform is unsupported — the pages that would have carried a platform list are the consumer product pages, and those are gone now that the company sells nothing. That is a real limitation on this answer and it is stated rather than hidden: on a discontinued product, silence can mean 'never supported' or 'the page that said so has been taken down', and this catalogue cannot tell the difference from here. Nor can a Matter route be ruled out: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it matched any company whose name merely contained the letters typed — searching for Sense returned X-Sense, Senscomm and others — so finding no entry under a name was a search that came back empty, not proof that no certificate exists. What can be said is that Apple Home controls no energy device class in any case: EnergyKit is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control or read a monitor, and this catalogue never conflates the two.[7][19]
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Unknown, and deliberately so despite it being easy to assume otherwise. Sense's own Alexa post mentions integrations with Philips Hue and with Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs but says nothing about Google, and no Sense-owned page documenting a Google Assistant integration was located. References to one exist on Sense's community forum — but a forum post is a user writing, not the vendor publishing, and this catalogue does not turn community discussion into a compatibility claim. So the honest position is that Google support may well exist and is not documented anywhere we can cite. The contrast with the Alexa cell on this same record is the point: Alexa has a first-party post with quoted commands and a stated regional limit, and it earns partial; Google has nothing first-party, and it earns unknown.[4][26]
Follow the recorded connection below. Equipment details and setup limits explain what else this path needs.
The documented connection
Sense Home Energy Monitor
- Sense Home Energy MonitorSense Home Energy Monitor
- Wi-FiWi-Fi routerYour home network
- InternetCloud serviceInternet connection required
- Alexa skillAmazon AlexaPlatform control
What you gainReach the device through the documented cloud connection.
Keep in mindCheck the function table for supported controls and routines. A connection diagram does not establish every function or remote access.
How to read the equipment roles
This shows the connection route, not every network cable or a shopping list. One device may provide several roles, including a Matter controller and a Thread border router. Only a Thread connection needs the Thread role. Read the equipment cards for all recorded requirements.
Sources for these setup paths
- Setup documentation · checked 2026-10-04
These paths summarize documented setup options. Check the function table for the connection covered by each recorded capability.
Real and first-party. Sense's own post documents a skill with questions such as 'Alexa, ask Sense how much electricity I'm using.', 'Alexa, ask Sense how much solar I'm generating.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my dryer is done.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging.', 'Alexa, ask Sense when my garage door closed.' Those last three are the product's disaggregation showing off: it is answering about individual appliances it identified from the mains, which nothing else in this subcategory can do by voice. Partial rather than full for two checkable reasons. First, every documented command uses the 'Alexa, ask Sense…' form — the question-and-answer skill pattern rather than the direct-device pattern — so the monitor is reachable through Alexa without being a device Alexa controls, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Second, Sense states a hard regional limit in its own words: 'The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!' Setup is account-linking through the Alexa app or Amazon's skills page. It runs entirely through Sense's cloud. ⚠ And the standing caveat on this whole record applies: this documentation predates the consumer exit, so it describes a skill that existed — whether it is still being maintained is not something any Sense surface currently states.[4][26]
The equipment list for this platform is not fully specified here. Use the documented setup above; an empty list does not mean no equipment is needed.
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Unknown. Sense names SmartThings nowhere on any surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. As with the Apple answer, the discontinuation weakens what this silence can tell you — the product pages that would have carried a platform list no longer exist — so this is recorded as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of absence. The Matter question is open for the same reason: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it returned any company whose name contained the letters typed rather than the company searched for, so nothing found under this name proves nothing was filed.[7][19]
Follow the recorded connection below. Equipment details and setup limits explain what else this path needs.
The documented connection
Sense Home Energy Monitor
- Sense Home Energy MonitorSense Home Energy Monitor
- Wi-FiWi-Fi routerYour home network
- InternetCloud serviceInternet connection required
- Official integrationHome AssistantPlatform control
What you gainReach the device through the documented cloud connection.
Keep in mindCheck the function table for supported controls and routines. A connection diagram does not establish every function or remote access.
How to read the equipment roles
This shows the connection route, not every network cable or a shopping list. One device may provide several roles, including a Matter controller and a Thread border router. Only a Thread connection needs the Thread role. Read the equipment cards for all recorded requirements.
Sources for these setup paths
- Setup documentation · checked 2026-10-04
These paths summarize documented setup options. Check the function table for the connection covered by each recorded capability.
The strongest platform on this page, and — usefully for anyone weighing a second-hand purchase — independent evidence that Sense's service is genuinely still running. Home Assistant ships an official Sense integration, going all the way back to version 0.82, which asks Sense's servers for updates at intervals, and what it gives you is substantial: an on/off indicator for each appliance, live readings refreshed every 60 seconds for current usage and production in watts, and totals refreshed every 5 minutes across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales, covering usage, production, grid import and export, and solar percentages. The per-appliance indicators are the interesting part, because that is Sense's appliance recognition reaching Home Assistant — you get one for every appliance Sense has learned to recognise, which is a capability nothing else in this category offers to any platform. We call it full on the strength of that documented list. Two limits, both real. It runs through Sense's servers, so it stops when they do or when your internet does — and on a product whose maker has left the consumer market, that is the dependency to think hardest about. And Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level, naming a Sense meter and account rather than a specific model, though with a single consumer product line that is a narrower gap than usual.[5][27]
The equipment list for this platform is not fully specified here. Use the documented setup above; an empty list does not mean no equipment is needed.
One device can provide more than one role. These are setup requirements, not a shopping list of separate purchases.
What could you do with this?
Put its functions to use.
Start with a documented control or event. The selected connection shows what is confirmed for that platform.
Apple Home · Inconclusive
Energy reading
This device reports energy reading.
- Event
- Inconclusive
- Automation
- —
Setup: See the equipment information above.
Setup and sources
Unknown. No Sense surface read names Apple, HomeKit or Siri, and no Apple-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none because Sense has not said the platform is unsupported — the pages that would have carried a platform list are the consumer product pages, and those are gone now that the company sells nothing. That is a real limitation on this answer and it is stated rather than hidden: on a discontinued product, silence can mean 'never supported' or 'the page that said so has been taken down', and this catalogue cannot tell the difference from here. Nor can a Matter route be ruled out: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it matched any company whose name merely contained the letters typed — searching for Sense returned X-Sense, Senscomm and others — so finding no entry under a name was a search that came back empty, not proof that no certificate exists. What can be said is that Apple Home controls no energy device class in any case: EnergyKit is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control or read a monitor, and this catalogue never conflates the two.
Connection documentation: [7] [19]
Device documentation: [4] [5] [26] [27]
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
csa-iot.org · checked 2026-09-19
Google Home · Inconclusive
Energy reading
This device reports energy reading.
- Event
- Inconclusive
- Automation
- —
Setup: See the equipment information above.
Setup and sources
Unknown, and deliberately so despite it being easy to assume otherwise. Sense's own Alexa post mentions integrations with Philips Hue and with Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs but says nothing about Google, and no Sense-owned page documenting a Google Assistant integration was located. References to one exist on Sense's community forum — but a forum post is a user writing, not the vendor publishing, and this catalogue does not turn community discussion into a compatibility claim. So the honest position is that Google support may well exist and is not documented anywhere we can cite. The contrast with the Alexa cell on this same record is the point: Alexa has a first-party post with quoted commands and a stated regional limit, and it earns partial; Google has nothing first-party, and it earns unknown.
Connection documentation: [4] [26]
Device documentation: [4] [5] [26] [27]
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
Alexa · Partial
Energy reading
This device reports energy reading.
- Event
- Not stated
- Automation
- —
Setup: See the equipment information above.
Setup and sources
Real and first-party. Sense's own post documents a skill with questions such as 'Alexa, ask Sense how much electricity I'm using.', 'Alexa, ask Sense how much solar I'm generating.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my dryer is done.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging.', 'Alexa, ask Sense when my garage door closed.' Those last three are the product's disaggregation showing off: it is answering about individual appliances it identified from the mains, which nothing else in this subcategory can do by voice. Partial rather than full for two checkable reasons. First, every documented command uses the 'Alexa, ask Sense…' form — the question-and-answer skill pattern rather than the direct-device pattern — so the monitor is reachable through Alexa without being a device Alexa controls, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Second, Sense states a hard regional limit in its own words: 'The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!' Setup is account-linking through the Alexa app or Amazon's skills page. It runs entirely through Sense's cloud. ⚠ And the standing caveat on this whole record applies: this documentation predates the consumer exit, so it describes a skill that existed — whether it is still being maintained is not something any Sense surface currently states.
Connection documentation: [4] [26]
Device documentation: [4] [5] [26] [27]
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
SmartThings · Inconclusive
Energy reading
This device reports energy reading.
- Event
- Inconclusive
- Automation
- —
Setup: See the equipment information above.
Setup and sources
Unknown. Sense names SmartThings nowhere on any surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. As with the Apple answer, the discontinuation weakens what this silence can tell you — the product pages that would have carried a platform list no longer exist — so this is recorded as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of absence. The Matter question is open for the same reason: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it returned any company whose name contained the letters typed rather than the company searched for, so nothing found under this name proves nothing was filed.
Connection documentation: [7] [19]
Device documentation: [4] [5] [26] [27]
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
csa-iot.org · checked 2026-09-19
Home Assistant · Works
Energy reading
This device reports energy reading.
- Event
- Not stated
- Automation
- —
Setup: See the equipment information above.
Setup and sources
The strongest platform on this page, and — usefully for anyone weighing a second-hand purchase — independent evidence that Sense's service is genuinely still running. Home Assistant ships an official Sense integration, going all the way back to version 0.82, which asks Sense's servers for updates at intervals, and what it gives you is substantial: an on/off indicator for each appliance, live readings refreshed every 60 seconds for current usage and production in watts, and totals refreshed every 5 minutes across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales, covering usage, production, grid import and export, and solar percentages. The per-appliance indicators are the interesting part, because that is Sense's appliance recognition reaching Home Assistant — you get one for every appliance Sense has learned to recognise, which is a capability nothing else in this category offers to any platform. We call it full on the strength of that documented list. Two limits, both real. It runs through Sense's servers, so it stops when they do or when your internet does — and on a product whose maker has left the consumer market, that is the dependency to think hardest about. And Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level, naming a Sense meter and account rather than a specific model, though with a single consumer product line that is a narrower gap than usual.
Connection documentation: [5] [27]
Device documentation: [4] [5] [26] [27]
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
A documented control or event is one part of a setup. It does not by itself establish a complete automation.
A platform connection does not confirm every function. Controls and reported events are shown separately from what an automation can use.
- Controls
- None documented by the vendor
- Reported events
- 1 documented
Compare all five platforms. On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways.
| Device function | Apple HomeInconclusive[7][19] | Google HomeInconclusive[4][26] | AlexaPartial[4][26] | SmartThingsInconclusive[7][19] | Home AssistantWorks[5][27] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy readingReported event | Event Inconclusive | Event Inconclusive | Event Not stated | Event Inconclusive | Event Not stated |
Automation availability for this model is not established.
✓ Documented for this connection. × A stated limit. ◐ A partial function. ? Not established. A listed device function does not establish a complete routine, its other equipment or any plan requirements.
Setup and sources
Apple Home
Unknown. No Sense surface read names Apple, HomeKit or Siri, and no Apple-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none because Sense has not said the platform is unsupported — the pages that would have carried a platform list are the consumer product pages, and those are gone now that the company sells nothing. That is a real limitation on this answer and it is stated rather than hidden: on a discontinued product, silence can mean 'never supported' or 'the page that said so has been taken down', and this catalogue cannot tell the difference from here. Nor can a Matter route be ruled out: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it matched any company whose name merely contained the letters typed — searching for Sense returned X-Sense, Senscomm and others — so finding no entry under a name was a search that came back empty, not proof that no certificate exists. What can be said is that Apple Home controls no energy device class in any case: EnergyKit is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control or read a monitor, and this catalogue never conflates the two.[7][19]
Google Home
Unknown, and deliberately so despite it being easy to assume otherwise. Sense's own Alexa post mentions integrations with Philips Hue and with Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs but says nothing about Google, and no Sense-owned page documenting a Google Assistant integration was located. References to one exist on Sense's community forum — but a forum post is a user writing, not the vendor publishing, and this catalogue does not turn community discussion into a compatibility claim. So the honest position is that Google support may well exist and is not documented anywhere we can cite. The contrast with the Alexa cell on this same record is the point: Alexa has a first-party post with quoted commands and a stated regional limit, and it earns partial; Google has nothing first-party, and it earns unknown.[4][26]
Alexa
Real and first-party. Sense's own post documents a skill with questions such as 'Alexa, ask Sense how much electricity I'm using.', 'Alexa, ask Sense how much solar I'm generating.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my dryer is done.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging.', 'Alexa, ask Sense when my garage door closed.' Those last three are the product's disaggregation showing off: it is answering about individual appliances it identified from the mains, which nothing else in this subcategory can do by voice. Partial rather than full for two checkable reasons. First, every documented command uses the 'Alexa, ask Sense…' form — the question-and-answer skill pattern rather than the direct-device pattern — so the monitor is reachable through Alexa without being a device Alexa controls, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Second, Sense states a hard regional limit in its own words: 'The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!' Setup is account-linking through the Alexa app or Amazon's skills page. It runs entirely through Sense's cloud. ⚠ And the standing caveat on this whole record applies: this documentation predates the consumer exit, so it describes a skill that existed — whether it is still being maintained is not something any Sense surface currently states.[4][26]
SmartThings
Unknown. Sense names SmartThings nowhere on any surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. As with the Apple answer, the discontinuation weakens what this silence can tell you — the product pages that would have carried a platform list no longer exist — so this is recorded as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of absence. The Matter question is open for the same reason: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it returned any company whose name contained the letters typed rather than the company searched for, so nothing found under this name proves nothing was filed.[7][19]
Home Assistant
The strongest platform on this page, and — usefully for anyone weighing a second-hand purchase — independent evidence that Sense's service is genuinely still running. Home Assistant ships an official Sense integration, going all the way back to version 0.82, which asks Sense's servers for updates at intervals, and what it gives you is substantial: an on/off indicator for each appliance, live readings refreshed every 60 seconds for current usage and production in watts, and totals refreshed every 5 minutes across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales, covering usage, production, grid import and export, and solar percentages. The per-appliance indicators are the interesting part, because that is Sense's appliance recognition reaching Home Assistant — you get one for every appliance Sense has learned to recognise, which is a capability nothing else in this category offers to any platform. We call it full on the strength of that documented list. Two limits, both real. It runs through Sense's servers, so it stops when they do or when your internet does — and on a product whose maker has left the consumer market, that is the dependency to think hardest about. And Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level, naming a Sense meter and account rather than a specific model, though with a single consumer product line that is a narrower gap than usual.[5][27]
Platform documentation:
csa-iot.org · checked 2026-09-19
sense.com · checked 2026-10-04
home-assistant.io · checked 2026-10-04
Listed device functions are established from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished, not necessarily absent.
Connection details and setup sources
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[7][19] | Unknown. No Sense surface read names Apple, HomeKit or Siri, and no Apple-side documentation naming this monitor was located. Recorded unknown rather than none because Sense has not said the platform is unsupported — the pages that would have carried a platform list are the consumer product pages, and those are gone now that the company sells nothing. That is a real limitation on this answer and it is stated rather than hidden: on a discontinued product, silence can mean 'never supported' or 'the page that said so has been taken down', and this catalogue cannot tell the difference from here. Nor can a Matter route be ruled out: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it matched any company whose name merely contained the letters typed — searching for Sense returned X-Sense, Senscomm and others — so finding no entry under a name was a search that came back empty, not proof that no certificate exists. What can be said is that Apple Home controls no energy device class in any case: EnergyKit is a forecast-only data feed for third-party apps rather than a way to control or read a monitor, and this catalogue never conflates the two. |
| Amazon Alexa | PartialPartial support — see the catch[4][26] | Real and first-party. Sense's own post documents a skill with questions such as 'Alexa, ask Sense how much electricity I'm using.', 'Alexa, ask Sense how much solar I'm generating.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my dryer is done.', 'Alexa, ask Sense if my Tesla is still charging.', 'Alexa, ask Sense when my garage door closed.' Those last three are the product's disaggregation showing off: it is answering about individual appliances it identified from the mains, which nothing else in this subcategory can do by voice. Partial rather than full for two checkable reasons. First, every documented command uses the 'Alexa, ask Sense…' form — the question-and-answer skill pattern rather than the direct-device pattern — so the monitor is reachable through Alexa without being a device Alexa controls, and no device-style command is documented anywhere. Second, Sense states a hard regional limit in its own words: 'The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!' Setup is account-linking through the Alexa app or Amazon's skills page. It runs entirely through Sense's cloud. ⚠ And the standing caveat on this whole record applies: this documentation predates the consumer exit, so it describes a skill that existed — whether it is still being maintained is not something any Sense surface currently states. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[4][26] | Unknown, and deliberately so despite it being easy to assume otherwise. Sense's own Alexa post mentions integrations with Philips Hue and with Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs but says nothing about Google, and no Sense-owned page documenting a Google Assistant integration was located. References to one exist on Sense's community forum — but a forum post is a user writing, not the vendor publishing, and this catalogue does not turn community discussion into a compatibility claim. So the honest position is that Google support may well exist and is not documented anywhere we can cite. The contrast with the Alexa cell on this same record is the point: Alexa has a first-party post with quoted commands and a stated regional limit, and it earns partial; Google has nothing first-party, and it earns unknown. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[7][19] | Unknown. Sense names SmartThings nowhere on any surface read, and no Samsung-side documentation naming this monitor was located. As with the Apple answer, the discontinuation weakens what this silence can tell you — the product pages that would have carried a platform list no longer exist — so this is recorded as an absence of evidence rather than as evidence of absence. The Matter question is open for the same reason: when we searched the certification body's list in September 2026, it returned any company whose name contained the letters typed rather than the company searched for, so nothing found under this name proves nothing was filed. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[5][27] | The strongest platform on this page, and — usefully for anyone weighing a second-hand purchase — independent evidence that Sense's service is genuinely still running. Home Assistant ships an official Sense integration, going all the way back to version 0.82, which asks Sense's servers for updates at intervals, and what it gives you is substantial: an on/off indicator for each appliance, live readings refreshed every 60 seconds for current usage and production in watts, and totals refreshed every 5 minutes across daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales, covering usage, production, grid import and export, and solar percentages. The per-appliance indicators are the interesting part, because that is Sense's appliance recognition reaching Home Assistant — you get one for every appliance Sense has learned to recognise, which is a capability nothing else in this category offers to any platform. We call it full on the strength of that documented list. Two limits, both real. It runs through Sense's servers, so it stops when they do or when your internet does — and on a product whose maker has left the consumer market, that is the dependency to think hardest about. And Home Assistant's documentation is written at brand level, naming a Sense meter and account rather than a specific model, though with a single consumer product line that is a narrower gap than usual. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Plans and ongoing costs[18][25]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription, plan or fee appears on any Sense surface read, and existing owners are told their access continues — the 'Looking Ahead' post names energy data access among the things that carry on for monitor owners. Recorded as 'none' on that basis, with coreFunctionWithoutPlan 'unknown' rather than 'full', because that is an absence of any mention of paid tiers plus a continuation commitment, not a vendor statement that everything is and remains included. An account is mandatory: the app is the only interface, and the device's whole function runs through Sense's service. ⚠ One thing worth stating plainly on a discontinued product: no end date accompanies the support commitments, so 'no subscription' describes the arrangement today and carries no promise about what a company that has left this market does with a legacy service in future.
Maintenance and offline use
- Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- The monitor installs inside the electrical panel and clamps onto the mains, which is why it is recorded as a professional install: Sense's own help material covers panel compatibility, Wi-Fi requirements and solar configurations, all of which are questions an electrician answers. It depends on Sense's servers, and that matters more here than on most products, because the thing that made this monitor distinctive is a server-side function rather than a measurement: Sense works out which individual appliance is running from the shape of the mains waveform, and that happens on Sense's computers. A local reading of total household power is not what people bought this for. ⚠ NO SPECIFICATIONS APPEAR ON THIS PAGE — no model number, no sampling rate, no accuracy figure, no dimensions — and that is a consequence of the discontinuation rather than an oversight: the product pages that would have carried a specification table are gone from Sense's site, which now sells nothing. What remains readable is the help material, the company's announcements and Home Assistant's documentation. So this page documents the product's lifecycle and platform position accurately and does not pretend to a spec sheet we could not source.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Sense publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
Who it's for
Nobody should buy this new, because it is not sold new. This record exists for two other people. The first is an existing owner wondering whether to keep it, and for them the answer is genuinely reassuring: Sense committed in writing to app and firmware updates, continued device detection improvements, data access, security patches and support, the appliance-level detection still works, and Home Assistant's official integration is live — so there is no reason to rip it out today, and the thing to watch is whether those commitments hold rather than whether the hardware fails. The second is someone considering a second-hand unit, and for them the calculation is a bet on a company's goodwill: everything valuable about this device runs in a cloud operated by a business that has moved to selling through utilities instead, with no local fallback and no stated end date for legacy support. A working device today, an unknowable one in three years, and no way to hedge. Anyone who wants whole-home monitoring they will still control in a decade should look at a local-first product instead — the Shelly meter in this same subcategory needs no cloud connection at all, though it measures a single circuit rather than identifying appliances. And anyone whose utility has deployed a compatible smart meter should read Sense's own consumer page first, because in that case the software may be available free without any hardware purchase at all — which is precisely what the company pivoted to do.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
37 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
- [1] Sense, 'Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense' (consumer blog) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Product identity, Market availability, Service status
- [2] Sense, 'A note to our Sense monitor community' (consumer blog) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Service status
- [3] Sense, consumer site (homepage navigation, /store/ and /homes/) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Price, Market availability
- [4] Sense, 'Alexa, Ask Sense…' (consumer blog) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Capabilities, Google Home compatibility
- [5] Home Assistant, Sense integration documentation — Read what the other company publishes, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Capabilities, Service status
- [6] First-hand observation, dev.sense.com — TLS certificate expired, 2026-08-02; contrasted against sense.com, sense.com/homes/ and two consumer-blog posts all serving normally the same day, verified 2026-08-02
- [7] CSA-IoT certified products database, keyword search — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-08-02Backs: Protocols, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [8] US Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall REST service — Read a public regulatory filing, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Service status
- [9] Sense consumer blog, "Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense", by Mike Phillips, CEO and co-founder — "We'll stop selling the Sense Monitor by December 31, 2025." and "But, don't worry we are continuing to support and improve the Sense app and will continue to support existing Sense monitors." The post also states what replaces it: "We are now embedding Sense directly into the next generation of smart meters and rolling out through utility partners across the country". — Re-checked this against its sources, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Research status, Required hub or bridge, Market availability
- [10] Matter Distributed Compliance Ledger, vendor registry (read 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs). Sense does not appear under any name tried: 'sense' — which DOES return Hisense, Sensereo, Sense Say Technology, X-Sense Innovations and Ecosense, none of them this company. The DCL's vendor registry was enumerated to EXHAUSTION on 2026-08-22 via tools/dcl-lookup.mjs: substring queries were unioned until the distinct-VID count reached 833, which is the record count the tool itself reports scanning per query (the union of a/e/i/o/u/y reached 832; the last holdout was 'SLV GmbH', a vowel-free name, recovered by adding l/s/t). Every vendor in the ledger was therefore inspected, not searched for. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-08-22Backs: Protocols
- [11] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-06
- [12] home-assistant.io Sense integration page, sense.com/homes and three sense.com blog posts, the CSA search and the saferproducts.gov recall record, re-read 2026-09-10; on.dcl.csa-iot.org not read (its robots.txt could not be reached, so we did not knock). Home Assistant: 'Its IoT class is Cloud Polling.' sense.com/homes: 'All communications between the Sense-enabled electric meter, the Sense cloud servers, and Sense Home app are encrypted … Sense stores all data in cloud servers using Amazon Web Services (AWS).' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-10
- [13] The hunt itself, run 2026-09-12 across Sense's own surfaces. No document was served: help.sense.com refused, guides.sense.com does not resolve, and sense.com's reachable pages carry nothing on the question., verified 2026-09-12
- [14] https://sense.com/homes/ and the three sense.com consumer-blog posts this record cites (looking-ahead-the-next-chapter-for-sense, a-note-to-our-sense-monitor-community, alexa-ask-sense), all read 2026-09-12: 'GHz' and '802.11' occur on none of them. help.sense.com, which publishes the technical-specs guide, refused our request on 2026-09-12 (recorded in the entry above) and was NOT asked again: a refusal is a host policy statement, never retried. The Wi-Fi bands stay unrecorded: we looked, and Sense does not publish them on any of its own pages we can reach. The route that would settle them is the same installation guide that would settle the power source. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-12
- [15] Record-keeping entry: an evidence review's own stated exception was applied to the entry csa-no-sense-matter-certificate, verified 2026-09-15
- [16] lifecycle.research.note, as it read before 2026-09-15: Verified 2026-08-02 across four first-party Sense surfaces (two consumer-blog posts, the consumer product page and a product FAQ page) plus Home Assistant's core integration documentation, the CSA-IoT certified-products database and CPSC's recall database. ⚠ ONE CORRECTION TO OUR OWN PLANNING, recorded rather than quietly absorbed: the December 31, 2025 sales-end date was attributed to the post 'A note to our Sense monitor community'. That post carries the pivot and the existing-owner support quote but NO date. The date is first-party and it is real — it is in a different Sense post, 'Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense' — so the claim reproduced while the citation did not, and this record cites the post that actually contains the sentence. ⚠ A second method caution: both registry checks for this brand returned SUBSTRING noise rather than clean results, because 'Sense' is a short common token — the CSA search returned ten certificates belonging to other companies and the CPSC query returned Hisense and SODA SENSE. Neither was read as a hit; the returned records were read rather than counted., verified 2026-09-15
- [17] sense.com — 'How the Sense Home Energy Monitor Works' (Sense's own consumer blog), read 2026-09-16. Verbatim: 'Installation (which should be done by a licensed electrician) is pretty straightforward and typically takes less than 30 minutes.'; 'Two current sensors clamp around the main power feed inside your electrical panel, and then Sense connects to a 240V breaker; there's no rewiring required.' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-16Backs: Installation
- [18] Sense's own consumer page, where Sense says in its own words that no subscription fee is charged for the app, plus a whole-site enumeration showing Sense publishes no plans, pricing or store page at all — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-21Backs: Subscription
- [19] The Connectivity Standards Alliance's certified-product search, queried for "Sense" and re-run 2026-09-19. The results are substring matches on other companies — X-Sense Innovations, Senscomm Semiconductor, SENSEREO and Sense Say Technology among them — and none is the company that made this monitor. Recorded plainly: this search cannot establish that no certificate exists, because it does not search the way the earlier reading of it assumed. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-09-19Backs: Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [20] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-23 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-23
- [21] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-24 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-24
- [22] Sense's own consumer-blog post 'How the Sense Energy Monitor Works', read in full on 2026-10-04. Verbatim: "Installation (which should be done by a licensed electrician) is pretty straightforward and typically takes less than 30 minutes."; "Two current sensors clamp around the main power feed inside your electrical panel, and then Sense connects to a 240V breaker; there’s no rewiring required."; "the voltage is measured through the same circuit breaker that supplies the monitor with power"; "The monitor itself only uses about 4 watts"; "small bits of information are also sent through your home’s Wi-Fi to our cloud servers"; "the iOS and Android apps that you interact with every day". — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Power source, Installation, Protocols, Required hub or bridge, App platforms
- [23] Sense's own consumer-blog post 'Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Sense', by its CEO, read in full on 2026-10-04. Verbatim: "We’ll stop selling the Sense Monitor by December 31, 2025 ."; "we are continuing to support and improve the Sense app and will continue to support existing Sense monitors"; "If you have a Sense monitor, you’ll continue to get: App and firmware updates Ongoing device detection improvements Energy data access Security patches Dedicated customer support". — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Product identity, Market availability, Service status, Research status
- [24] Sense's own consumer-blog post 'A note to our Sense Monitor Community', by its co-founder and CEO, read in full on 2026-10-04. Verbatim: "For those of you with an orange monitor in your home, nothing changes. Your device, your data, your support, all of it continues." — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Service status
- [25] Sense's consumer page, read in full on 2026-10-04 (3,452 characters). Verbatim: "Have a new Wi-Fi-enabled smart meter? The Sense Home App may be available to you. Check if you're eligible". The navigation reads 'For Homes', 'For Utilities', 'For Partners'. The page carries no buy button, price, store link, where-to-buy line, plan, membership or fee. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Price, Market availability, Subscription
- [26] Sense's own consumer-blog post 'Alexa, Ask Sense…', read in full on 2026-10-04. Verbatim: "Connect your Sense account to your Alexa account* through the Amazon Skills page on Amazon.com , or through the Alexa app by enabling the skill and then clicking “Link Account”."; "For every Sense command, just start with “Alexa, Ask Sense…”"; "*The Sense skill for Alexa is currently only available in the United States. We do hope to make it available in Canada soon!"; "we’ve also released integrations with Philips Hue , and smart plugs from Wemo and TP-Link". The post names Google, Apple, HomeKit, SmartThings and IFTTT nowhere. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Capabilities, Google Home compatibility
- [27] Home Assistant's Sense integration page, read in full on 2026-10-04 (documentation release 2026.9.4). Verbatim: "Integrate your Sense meter information into Home Assistant."; "Active sensors: Updated every 60 seconds."; "Trend sensors: Data provided for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scales. Updated every 5 minutes."; "Binary sensors are created for each of the devices detected by your Sense monitor to show their power state."; "The Sense hub was introduced in Home Assistant 0.82, and it's used by 2353 active installations. Its IoT class is Cloud Polling." — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Capabilities, Service status
- [28] The US Consumer Product Safety Commission's public recall service, asked for manufacturer 'Sense' on 2026-10-04. In our words: three records, recall 26307 (Babysense baby monitors, Hisense Ltd. of Israel, 2026-02-26), 22151 (Hisense USA refrigerators, 2022-06-09) and 20775 (SODA SENSE CO2 canisters, CO2 Exchange LLC, 2020-09-03); none is this manufacturer. — Read a public regulatory filing, verified 2026-10-04Backs: Service status
- [29] The US Consumer Product Safety Commission public recall service, asked for manufacturer Tesla on 2026-10-04 as the same-session control for the Sense query. In our words: one record, recall 26092, the Tesla Powerwall 2 recall of 2025-11-13. — Read a public regulatory filing, verified 2026-10-04
- [30] The Matter ledger's vendor registry, read on 2026-10-04: the first page through tools/page-read.mjs (the fingerprint below) and the whole registry through tools/dcl-lookup.mjs, nine pages and 862 vendor records to the end of pagination. In our words: 'Sense' matches five vendors, Hisense (5004), Sensereo (5526), Sense Say Technology of Shenzhen (5722), X-Sense (5727) and Ecosense (5779), none of them the maker of this monitor; 'Sense Labs' matches no vendor. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-10-04
- [31] The certification body's certified-products search, opened with the Sense keyword on 2026-10-04. In our words: it served the same unfiltered first page, with the same fingerprint, as the Aqara control search, so the keyword was not applied. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-10-04
- [32] The certification body's certified-products search, opened with the Aqara keyword on 2026-10-04 as route (B)'s control. In our words: the same unfiltered first page as the Sense search, with no Aqara product on it, so the control failed. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-10-04
- [33] The certification body's member page for Lumi United Technology (Aqara), read in full on 2026-10-04 as route (A)'s control. In our words: a short company description and a link to the company's site, with no certified product and no certificate number, so it does not show the Door and Window Sensor P2 and the control failed. — Checked a certification register, verified 2026-10-04
- [34] The certification body's member address for Sense Labs, Inc., asked on 2026-10-04: it answered not found., verified 2026-10-04
- [35] The certification body's member address for Sense Labs, second spelling, asked on 2026-10-04: it answered not found., verified 2026-10-04
- [36] The page on this record that could not be read on 2026-10-04: Sense's installation guide at https://help.sense.com/hc/en-us/articles/25305051781395-Installation-Guide-Sense-Home-Energy-Monitor. help.sense.com turns our reader away (recorded on the host-conduct register since 2026-09-15)., verified 2026-10-04
- [37] A wording correction to this record's own sentences about the certification body's keyword search. No page was read., verified 2026-10-07
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