HomeKit Elgato Eve Energy - disable on/off switch in homekit and eve app?

[Canubis]

I've got my Mac Pro connected to an Elgato Eve Energy with the main goal to measure its power usage and cost over time and have a glance on it. It's really cool and informative.

However, it happend not just once that I accidentially killed my Mac by hitting the Eve Energy's button in homekit or the Eve app and therefore cutting the device's power. Maybe I am special kind of dumb, but I feel it would be really practical to just disable this on/off button for specfic devices, where this is not an essential or even critical feature in a negative way. Is there any known way to do this?

 

[wesley96]

Not as far as I know. I'm actually on the same boat as you (I have it on an iMac), but the best I could come up is to make it so that accidental touch is avoided as much as possible by positioning it away from the area I touch most.

 

[Canubis]

Thanks, glad to hear I am not the only one with this situation. I feel it's a real flaw, since the monitoring features are a really great benefit but for some devices you just never want to accidentally cut the power. Tbh I even cannot think of too many situation where the on/off feature is really useful except for some stand alone lamps or the lights on the christmas tree.

Maybe requesting this as a feature request at both Elgato and Apple will bring relieve in at least a future update. I'll give it a try.

 

[johngordon]

It’s a good idea. I’ve just got one to see if our fridge and freezer could do with replacing, and thought the same - that an option to lock it in the on position somehow would be good.

 

[Tomex]

For anyone stepping into this thread looking for an answer:

• create a new home, call it, for example, "Secret"
• remove accessories from regular home
• add them again to a new home - you need room to scan the QR code on the side

Nice thing is that measurement history is preserved after the move.

It's still a workaround, but a separate home is much harder to access accidentally.

 

[Canubis]

Indeed a good workaround idea – still it baffles me why the makers of Eve never came across this (in my pov very important) use case: use eve energy for statistics on energy usage only, but explicitly not for turning on/off the connected device.