On the whole, the new TED Pro Home seems like a significant improvement on the TED 5000 series. Those who have been frequenting these boards for a while, will know that I am reasonably positive about the TED 5000 that I have had for a few years, so this is not "damning with faint praise".
I ordered mine last Wednesday and it arrived last Friday (2 days later!).
Installation was a similar process to that for the TED 5000. As usual, carefully following the instructions is strongly recommended! The MTUs and current sensors look (to my eyes, at least) bigger than the old ones in the images on the website, but the MTUs are, in fact, physically almost identical to the old ones, and the current sensors are somewhat less bulky that those which come with the 5000 series. The new current sensors fit with only a mm or so of clearance round my utility feed cables, and were consequently slightly more fiddly to apply and lock closed (a new feature). The ECC (replaces the Gateway in the 5000 series) is designed to sit on a shelf or desktop and look reasonably tidy - it connects to the mains by means of a regular AC cable. I plugged it in the socket that I had been using for my old Gateway, so I would have expected no problems with establishing PLC communications, but it seemed noticeably faster to do so, and Footprints's stats page (now accessible from a menu link from the Footprints menu) confirms a much reduced skip rate (down from 5-10% to < 1%).
Accessing the new version of Footprints was easy - type
http://Ted6000 into the browser, and there you are! Footprints found and displayed the output from the main and (subsequently) solar feed MTUs without needing any entry of code numbers - it just needed their functions defined through setup. Once set up, Footprints's options and display screens are similar to those which TED 5000 series users will be used to, with a few relatively minor exceptions:
1) Footprints no longer (apparently) keeps track of or displays maxima and minima for power, cost, and/or voltage on a daily or monthly basis. This is not a great loss (IMHO), though my utility has had a nasty habit of allowing the local utility voltage intermittently to drift up beyond their tolerance levels and to the point where it triggers my solar inverter's over-voltage protection, and it was good quickly to be able to see evidence of this happening.
2) Graphing and setting the upper and lower range limits for the real time display is a bit more complicated than it might be, and the limits are saved in the browser rather than in the ECC, so you have to reset them if you change browsers.
3) The weather display is not working for me - it did (most of the time!) on my Ted 5000 after the last update to the Gateway firmware. I don't use that feature, anyway, so I don't regard its absence as a significant problem.
The new ECC (apparently) works with the old portable display, but you do need to buy a Zigbee card plugin for the ECC. This provided the only really negative aspect of my upgrade experience - both of the sets of pins in the slots in base of the ECC into (one of) which the Zigbee card that I purchased with the rest of the kit should have slid were so badly bent that it could not be inserted. RTI are shipping me a new ECC, with the Zigbee card prefitted, so I will report on the portable display interface when I have the new ECC.
I also have some comments and questions about the Polling API for the new system, but I have posted these over in the Developers' section (
http://www.theenergydetectiveforums.com/index.php/topic,2953.0.html).