Review on 🏡 Emporia Smart Home Energy Monitor w/ 16 50A Circuit Level Sensors, Real-Time Electricity Meter/Solar Net Metering by Badpuppy Warton

Vue is a great thing, but there were a few minor annoyances. They provided a power supply with bare wires to connect to a switch instead of a plug because they want to keep everything in the switch box, but I don't have the space so I put a plug on it and plugged it into an outlet. . The device has no LED or indication that it is working until you try to connect. It has both Bluetooth and WiFi and you need to use Bluetooth to connect your phone to it to give it the WiFi password so it can get online and then reject the Bluetooth connection. However, the phone didn't find it when scanning or pairing with a new Bluetooth device, but the app still worked, which was weird. It requires a WiFi connection as it is constantly sending data to the cloud where it is stored on AWS, which means it will not work if your internet connection drops and it does not work in a remote offline location and you do not have to are able to store data locally. You can use it to use your phone as a WiFi hotspot when you have a cellular connection. While this prevents working in remote locations, it means that if the power goes out or your phone or computer freezes, no data will be lost. After an overnight power outage, I was able to run the app again and see all the data for the night, including a blank period of no power. The setup had a few hiccups, the app crashed once and had to be restarted, and the time setting didn't include daylight saving time so Phoenix was off by an hour and I had to set it to Los Angeles instead of getting the correct time. After speaking to tech support, they said that this feature will be added in the future. By the way, the online technical support is very responsive and answered all my questions immediately.