“If this attaches to 1 sink, does it monitor the entire house plumbing including irrigation or have to buy multiple?”
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Hello - great question. The product does monitor the entire home's plumbing, as the pipes in a plumbing system are all interconnected. Whether the product will detect irrigation usage and leaks is dependent upon a few things. Phyn works best and is most accurate at detecting usage and leaks if your home has a Pressure Regulating or Reducing Valve (PRV). This is a bell shaped mechanism that is typically located where the water comes into the home. Phyn will pick up all the water usage that comes after the PRV. So, if your irrigation is plumbed before your PRV Phyn will not detect it. If it is plumbed after your PRV Phyn will detect it.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Vibrations will travel throughout your entire water line every time water is used; Phyn samples these vibrations 240 times per second. There are 2 remote monitors, one for the hot water line (because it's after the water heater), and one for the cold line. So long as the monitors are within range of the hub, then effectively this would measure all water usage originating after your water meter. The Phyn products were beta tested with lots of homeowners and the resulting data went through AI/Machine learning to distinguish the different places the water was used. I believe the app is flexible enough that if it doesn't recognize what is using water (hypothetical source: furnace humidifier), but you do, you can label the unknown place the water is being consumed. This product is different from the Phyn Plus, which can actively turn off the water in case of catastrophic flood (think water heater bursting, washing machine supply line failure, failed frozen pipes, or other homeowner horrors)
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It monitors your whole house and should cover your irrigation system as long as it is behind the same cutoff valve to your home.
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