Flumes are not to be confused with aqueducts, which are built to transport water flumes use flowing water to transport materials. I’m looking at in-line Wi-Fi water meters now instead. A flume is a human-made channel for water, in the form of an open declined gravity chute whose walls are raised above the surrounding terrain, in contrast to a trench or ditch. I hope I’ve spared at least a few people the pair I went through. I highly recommend you look for other products instead of this. I wasted an enormous amount of time trying to get this to work. Detection of marine litter is an urgent task. Flume should be upfront about all these details and are not. Currently, eight million metric tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year, and microplastics in different forms are present in almost all water systems in the world: streams, rivers, lakes, or oceans, and even in our blood. The hardware is far more sensitive to distance than their marketing would suggest and they also don’t disclose that this distance quoted is for a plastic covered meter box. In summary, the app is poorly designed and doesn’t not function well in anything but the happy path I imagine they tested. Itll save you moneyeven if it never detects a leak. So ironically the device meant to save water would have you waste a whole lot of it. Flume Smart Water Monitor review: Smarter than your average leak detector. It tells you to run water but if the device can’t be reached, there’s no message telling you this is the case, and much worse, there is no time out. Once you do connect which I could only do with help from tech support (and I’m very technical), the calibration step is also terrible. The pairing with the hardware is terrible - slow, fails repeatedly, and without any meaningful feedback. The app itself is one of the poorest I’ve ever used.
I really wanted this to work, so much so that declined their offers for a refund at first.