EPO Power Watchdog

I looked at the apps for both 30 amp and 50 amp and found that the 50 amp is lacking the ability to set the amp alert level, where the 30 amp has that capability. This would be handy if you had to use a 30 amp service. Otherwise, I am still checking it out. Update 1: I found that I had no problem connecting the app to my IPhone 7, but my IPad Air was a totally different story. After several tries, I had no success with my IPad.

The app offers very basic information about the status of the surge protector. We’ve been testing it on our first trip with our new RV and it has cut the power twice on us for going over current. I don’t know how accurate the meter is on the EPO itself, but that is a separate review :) the app made it very easy to check why the power cut off and to turn it back on right from my phone. Never needed to go outside of the RV! Knocking some stars because when I had notifications turned on it was incredibly noisy, pinging my phone every few minutes that it disconnected. I don’t know what that alert meant: that my phone disconnected from the EPO, or that the EPO power had disconnected? Either way, power never appeared to be disrupted in the RV so I assumed it was an app issue. The app has no option to configure notifications (no options to configure anything, really), so my only choice was to disable all notifications completely from iOS. This meant I had no notifications when the power cut off and had to figure out what happened on my own. Would be nice to configure some settings like what notifications I want to see and adjust some thresholds for power off.

Plug it in and the hardware works as advertised. Even the software via Bluetooth is fine when it isn’t spontaneously disconnecting disconcertingly and annoyingly if you have an audible alert on. More annoying is there is no indication why it is saying it has disconnected. The menu can also benefit from a History submenu so one can track potential power source problems. In short Hardware gets 4 Stars, Software gets 2.

I just installed a hardwired watchdog. I had no problem installing the app and running it on my iphone. But I was unable to simultaneously run the app on my ipad. To get my ipad to work, I had to first close out the app on my iphone. This will be a problem as soon as my wife decides that she too wants to install and run the app on her iphone. Conclusion: the app works, but it is not a polished and finished tool.

Just got this. So far very happy with it. Lets me monitor amp draw on each leg. On my rig there’s an ac compressors each leg, so I can see if both are running or if just one is on. Can’t speak for longevity yet.