ANanupcshan·May 5, 2024
You can install esphome on Emporia Vue. https://github.com/emporia-vue-local/esphome (not used this myself). Vue V3 has wired ethernet support too.
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emporia-vue-local / esphome
esphome
Custom component for ESPHome to add support for the Emporia Vue 2 energy monitor
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Custom component for ESPHome to add support for the Emporia Vue 2 energy monitor
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| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Jun 2023 | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 2023 | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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What Hacker News says
3 sourcesAsk HN: Home Energy Monitor Recommendations?
Hi all,
Wondering if you have any other recommendations or thoughts on the below.
Use case: I have a solar array and want to track in one spot all the energy produced, energy imported, energy exported, and where energy is being used.
Both of the following seem to do what I want with some nuances. I am looking at:
1) Sense [0], which identifies energy use patterns of different devices to determine what devices are on different circuits (apparently even multiple devices on a single circuit) and how much energy each device is using. It is the most expensive option, uses proprietary tech that I am concerned means the company either goes belly up and I’m left with a brick, or forces everyone to switch to a SaaS model and I get held hostage if I want to continue using it in the same way. The other concern is that reviews are massively split - e
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ither it’s the greatest thing ever or it simply doesn’t manage to identify energy draws).
2) Emporia Vue 2 [1] which uses traditional CTs clamped on individual circuits. It is more cost effective than the Sense but is limited to 16 circuits and doesn’t provide any insight behind the circuit (so for example if a fridge and freezer are on one outlet, they are grouped together, which apparently the Sense can disentangle to varying success) so the data produced would seem to be less useful. There seem to be options for pushing the data to local storage [2] so if the company goes belly up or trying to force users to SaaS there seems to be an escape hatch.
Anyone have any experience with either product or an alternative? Any insights? Much appreciated!
[0] https://sense.com/
[1] https://www.emporiaenergy.com/how-the-vue-energy-monitor-works
[2] https://github.com/emporia-vue-local/esphome
Not Tasmotized--ESPHome!
Instructions are at https://gist.github.com/flaviut/93a1212c7b165c7674693a45ad52..., and I'm around in the discussion forums at https://github.com/emporia-vue-local/esphome/discussions to help out with getting this set up.
And I agree--it's really a great deal, and it's the only one of these products that comes with UL listing and can run open-source firmware.
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