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This whole discussion is very confusing to me - is this just a UPS you have to plug all your items into, or does it somehow back feed into the plug to power the circuit?

If it's the former it's nothing new and inconvenient, if it's the latter how do you avoid backfeeding the grid?

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It's just a UPS with an app, as far as I can tell. The outlets are visible in the pictures, they're just hard to see.

In the case I don't get the mesh network commentary and self healing talk - comes across as a total con job.

Wtf would I care about managing the real time draw from the grid for a tarted up UPS

I think(?) the idea is that you would charge the battery at night when energy costs are lower, then discharge during the day when costs are higher. In that case, the brains are providing value that a dumb UPS can't.

If I'm right, the copy on the website seems to assume the reader already knows about the whole "charge at night, discharge during the day" thing. Could use some reframing if the target demo is "the 99.7%"

If that's the case i would be interested to see the savings when you consider loses from batteries vs direct consumption at the time.

I'm not trying to poo poo the product, just some honest analysis of what it can do and the cost or savings.

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