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

I've looked at various wattage monitors and this seems to be the best. I bought it 11 days ago and they are already implementing an extension that not only controls the main load but also allows you to control individual circuit breakers. So great. I bought this so I can load the monitor of our new emergency power generator (generator 16 kW). We made a switch for the whole house and in a short time the electrician allowed me to start it (1 hour). I couldn't think of a combination of devices to…

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…

This is a well designed product. The hardware is slim, compact and easy to install. I tested the accuracy of amps and watts in the Vue2 iPhone app using a Fluke meter and a Kill-a-Watt meter for electronics, electrical equipment and instruments, and high-power electric motors. like my heat pump. I also checked the current draw from my solar panel. In all cases, Vue2's results were close enough for my needs (and I suspect for most homes that need to track dollar/electricity consumption). While…

Earlier this year, after moving into a new home, I needed to replace my entire HVAC system with a new, multi-zone, high-efficiency whole-house humidifier system. I like the new system but am disappointed that it doesn't provide usage history despite the expensive digital cloud thermostats built in. I looked around for something that could control its power consumption and only found scythe. After reading how Sense works, I decided that the machine learning approach to identification was too…

Update 10-1-19 The company is updating their software to try to provide us with more information for customers. The new feature I like is that you can download the CSV file for the data. I want to see the amps and they promised me they would come soon. Along with the web interface along with the application, so everything is going well. So far my opinion is changing and they get 5 stars for their work. First, the customer service is top notch. If you ask a question they will answer and help a…

I ordered these 2 to replace my device that I was using that worked through SMARTTHINGS. When they sold out I can no longer use the old performance monitor. It looked like a good but expensive monitor replacement. So I paid over $150 for this Emporia Vue device. It arrived yesterday (Friday) so like everything I buy I get a manual 2. Read about it. With my electrical background I already knew how to install 2, just wanted to read up on how it works and how energy usage is tracked. IMMEDIATELY I

Emporia Vue Gen 1 review (rated 3 stars out of 5) Very easy to install and inexpensive. However, it is disappointing that this device does not measure actual voltage. The voltage measurement is necessary to calculate complex power (VA), real power (W) and reactive power (VAR), therefore in some cases the application shows an incorrect value of real power in watts. For example, I turned off the circuit breakers on all circuits except the one that powers my refrigerator, the application showed…