Emporia Smart Home Energy Monitor with 8 50A Circuit Level Sensors | Real Time Electricity Monitor/Meter | Solar/Net Metering

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If the loads you want to control are more than ~1500W, then you'd have to use an intermediate relay. This will not work because we are compiling on a computer that does not have these HA options available. All it would take would be to turn on one device on that circuit at a time, look at the Emporia Energy app, and then jot down how much energy is being drawn in real time. To compute real power (Watts) is the average of the products of voltage and current of each sample pair. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging .

designing the rules to achieve said complexity does require thinking quite carefully about the logic.The Vue monitors the total energy use and solar net metering of your home through a simple iOS or Android app. If we are feeding into the grid will the monitor distinguish that, or see the power going through the supply leads as an absolute value (i. I did need to set my own sntp server (network doesn't allow traffic to the outside) but that didn't help. You need to be a heck of a lot faster for PV divert and there are diy instructions on the open energy monitor site with sw to accomplish this. Michael is TechHive's lead editor, with 30+ years of experience covering the tech industry, focusing on the smart home, home audio, and home theater.

FWIW I'm not interested in using the Emporia cloud/app function and would only use it if I can get it working local connection only. The moment you start thinking about hybrid inverters (solark/eg4/luxpower AIO), it simply doesn't work.Installing a device like the Emporia Vue Gen 2 Whole Home Energy Monitor can disaggregate your electrical consumption, i. The stub uploads and programs just fine and if you supply enough juice, the emporia does connect to the wifi network.

I've run the open energy software on a home baked system for quite a long time and haven't had any issues with it. Each of the Emporia sensors plugs into a central module that also fits inside your electrical panel. But, in cases where it can be installed, it would have been nice to see a drill bit included for making an appropriately-sized hole. I had been told it had a hard time learning low-draw items like LEDs, so I was surprised when it learned the light bulb (incandescent) inside of my dryer.

I therefore shortened the 4-wire power lead and connected it to a two-core connector: red, white and blue leads to neutral, black to live, with some shrink wrap over the wires for neatness and to provide double insulation. Even if there was, it’s important to know that while you can turn off individual breakers, the main power leads into the panel are live, so a licensed contractor would be the right approach here. APPLIANCE MONITORING WITHOUT GUESSWORK: Add up to sixteen 50A sensors to accurately monitor your air conditioner, furnace, water heater, washer, dryer, range, etc. Ideally I’d like the control to extend to a 3rd slave device which is only enabled when both primary fridge and chest freezer are off / standby and not drawing substantive current, and I’d like some time-based rules to only apply this master-slave control during certain hours of the day (or when mains power drops below a threshold), it just being able to master/slave two devices would be a great start. I’ve been using the Emporia Vue for a few months now and it’s made me very conscious about power usage.