[JSONwebtoken]

I hadn't heard of the company Sense before I read about this blog. I looked up their product... 300 bucks, are you kidding me? And it requires licensed installation on top of that, so maybe even more in labor. Who's buying this stuff and how is their margin defensible from Tesla or somebody selling Raspberry Pi kits for $25?

[kabes]

Of course the people without the technical skills, but also everybody who counts their time in terms of money. I used to reason like you when I was a student and had seemingly unlimited time on my hands. But now I'm a consultant who bills by the hour which makes me somehow always translate time into money. If I bill $100/hour and the raspberry PI solution would take me a day to set up and working, then buying the sense is $500 cheaper.

[rthille]

Sense looks really attractive to me, except the part where they get all the data. If they had a self hosted solution that I could run on a Raspberry Pi or even a “real”computer to do the data collection and processing, I’d be in.

[windowsworkstoo]

Its defensible because people are paying it...go on, you can buy the current clamps for a few bucks and make your own competitor for $25 a pop... you wont though because its easier to shit on things than actually do something.