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

Hello! This is an excellent product and quite affordable (Vue Gen2, with 8 sensors in addition to the main two that come by default). The manual at the website is quite detailed, and covers several faqs. The installation was fairly easy after reading the manual several times, and being very careful during installation. There are two wires for sensing the two main busbar voltages for proper watt calculations. The application will let you know If the two wires are connected to the same busbar, and will give you the chance to correct and connect them to separate busbars; quite convenient, and this gives you the confidence that the equipment is indeed reading the voltage for watt calculations, and not using any estimated values. Connecting to the cloud might take a while, especially if there is something wrong with the router. In my case, the system did not connect to the cloud initially, and we got concerned about that; but the system connected to the cloud immediately when using the phone hotspot. So, the problem was really the router. After trying reconfiguring the router for a very long time, we finally factory reset the router and worked immediately. The cloud has been working flawlessly since the installation on late September (it's now early November, 2021). Please bear in mind two important things: the one-second data does not storage for a long time, and the exported data from the cloud to csv format shall be downloaded shortly or it will not be available after a while. This second condition is not critical for long available data, but it is for short term data (seconds and minutes). After having everything up and running (we changed the sensors and circuit configurations a few times to get the most out of the system) the information provided is quite useful, as you will know the consumption of almost all your equipments (or group of equipments, depending on the configuration) with a very high degree of accuracy. Storaged information is only available in watts, but current (Amps) is available at the moment, and for quite a long time, depending on the time step. Graphics are quite useful, as they provide a lot of information at different time steps and for each and every circuit, and also in Amps or watts. This system exceeded our expectations by far, after getting it properly installed and configured. For knowing your consumption with high degree of details and accuracy, this is the right equipment, both on features and on price. Don't wait any more, don't think any more, just get it; you won't regret. Best regards,

I installed this in a subpanel in my home, with the plan to install a second one on the main input to capture a few breakers that aren't in the subpanel. My panel is 100% full, and I wouldn't recommend using the patch wire method they provide unless you know the circuits selected are lower current. I patched directly into two phases directly connected to two breakers instead. I had purchased the 8-channel unit, but quickly decided I wanted to use all 16 channels. Unfortunately it was out of stock at the time I wanted to do this, so I went direct to the site an purchased a set of 8 "Gen 1" sensors with Gen 2 adapters. The adapters barely fit side-by-side, and are also right-angle connectors, which means they can be hard to fit in tight situations within a breaker box. In addition to the tight connections, you have to plan accordingly to fit 18 CTs in a 100% utilized breaker box without running out of room for everything. A lot of people connect the CTs right after the breaker, but that is NOT required. There might be room above/below the breakers where it will make more sense to place them. Just need to trace the wires from the breaker up to this area and clamp on. Cable management is also a must! The app is easy to use. Setup was a breeze, and I was up and measuring within a minute of starting the app. The app provides a table view of all channels, and a graph of individual channels, one at a time. There is also an option to download all the recorded data which provides a link to a generated CSV dataset you can parse elsewhere. Realtime data is responsive, updating once a second. There seems to be a 5-10 second lag in the data, which can be seen when turning things on/off and waiting for the graph to show that update. In notifications, there are a lot of features that are not yet available. Right now you can set an alert if consumption on any channel is above or below a specified limit for a specified amount of time. Features I wish it had/hope to see in the future: - Ability to graph more than one channel on the screen at a time. - Ability to clear historical data from individual channels. Useful during setup, if moving CT channels around. - Easier way to scroll thru data. Maybe a zoom in/out feature. - More convenient way to switch between graphed channels. Overall I would recommend it, and I hope that app continues to see development and more features added.

1st read manual - don't lose. Install app. Install circuit sensors as required (50 amp for individual circuits 8/16 qnty, and 200amp for mains). Live chat is only a click away - they respond very quickly. If after work hours they engage you with an AI virtual (which in most cases will direct you to the right answers). If not type you want to chat with "real person". They will get back to you via email and app (very impressive). The product is great with charts and (time) graphs by seconds to years. In different data forms Amps, Watts, Cost (app goes and gets rates from local electric provider) many other associations like has gas savings if EV, and CO² if solar to name a couple.) if you have a solar setup it accounts for and tells you savings and 'Balance'. There is so much more to this that you will most likely will use (but there just Incase) you might get overwhelmed - don't worry support is easily/quickly there, and they know their stuff. Extremely well designed and integrated. (Don't bother with other power monitors. They cost too much and won't give you even half as much, certainly not in support.

Have only been using this product for a couple of weeks now in our off grid tiny home. We have this and a set of smart plugs to see what our post-inverter AC consumption is. It has been super helpful in identifying the various loads which is important for sizing the battery bank and solar array. It does leave an unknown in the inverter efficiency, but that is no fault of this product -- it is not meant for that. We use our in-cabin consumption readings and add 25% for a conservative estimate of losses so we always have more battery & solar generation than needed. The setup was super simple and easy-to-follow. The clamps work well and seem to be fairly accurate. Wiring in the device, setting the antenna and all of the physical install was very easy with our small breaker box. This generation box is also just small enough to fit in our tiny 8-breaker mini-box for the one room cabin. Any bigger or if we had more than half the box full of breakers and it might have been an issue. The new generation of this is smaller from what I recall, but was not going to arrive for a month so I chose this previous generation version. So far we have been able to monitor the cabin power even from our home which is a 4-hour drive away. It logs the data via the Internet so you can read it from anywhere. This allows us to view each individual circuit as well as the smart plugs in a single app. We can view consumption by second, minute, hour, day, month, and year. That means I can easily see when our compressor on the cooler (like a mini fridge) kicks on and off and for how often. I can also see how much power it used each day and compare that to solar input. Same with our AC/Heat mini split or the Starlink for Internet connection -- we're off grid not "survivalists" here! The only complaint so far is that navigating between different devices or circuits to view day/hour consumption is not very intuitive. There is also a lot of "interface cruft" on the app for stuff we don't use or need. I'd love to be able to hide the all the unused items from the main menu. It would also be great to swipe left/right or even click the main "blue skies cabin" breadcrumb when viewing "circuit 4" (the mini split) to see circuit 3 (the cooler). Thankfully I can still get around to see everything but it takes a few more clicks and swipes than I like. Overall -- pretty impressed with this so far and I love the related smart plugs that work much like my Kasa Home at our main house but with the added feature of consumption tracking. Kind of wish I came across this Emporia stuff before I went all-in on the TP-Link Kasa system at home.

I honestly didn’t know what to expect, but whatever it was this thing has exceeded it. My wife pretty much blew her stack when she saw the last power bill and blamed it on my 3D printing and other projects in the garage. Not only was I able to prove my innocence, but I also found that our kitchen refrigerator and furnace fan are the major culprits in our energy consumption. I love this thing. I can unplug appliances and turn off switches and see the changes in real time on my phone. You can see your energy usage history by the second, minute, hour, day, week, and month. It’s pretty sweet! I installed it myself which was a little dangerous with my particular breaker box, to be honest. They recommend having an electrician do it. But if you’re comfortable with working around electricity, if you know what you’re doing, and if you can trust your hands not to venture toward the main lugs (death lugs), then it’s pretty straightforward. The app guides you through the process very well, and it’s all communicated in plain, well-written English. For most homes with regular power, you just have to clip the 2 large CT transformers around the the 2 main power legs (by far the most dangerous part), and then connect 2 small wires to 2 different breakers and 2 other small wires to the neutral bus to provide power to the unit itself. Then it’s just a matter of clamping all the smaller CT transformers around the wires that you want to monitor. The cons I found with the installation are: 1) The CT transformers are blocky and rectangular, and the corners get caught on wires ALL the time when trying to maneuver them into place. I don’t know if they can be built with rounded tops, but that would make things a lot easier. 2) The hinges on the CT transformers have a lot of play in them, resulting in the latch not lining up sometimes when you try to lock it shut around a wire. This is a major PITA when you’re working in cramped quarters around electricity, and moving your fingers and trying to fiddle with finicky contraptions is a liability waiting to happen. They need to design them so they can easily be fastened with one hand. Having to use 2 hands inside an electrical panel creates the potential for a circuit right through your heart. Again, not sure how feasible that is, but it seems like it would be easy to make them that way. 3) The cables for the individual CT transformers are way too long for most home breaker boxes. I ordered the bundle with only 8 of them, thank god. Even with the 8 CT’s in my panel, the bundle of excess cable was massive, and there’s no possible way I could have fit 16. Maybe newer boxes wouldn’t have a problem though. With these somewhat minor gripes aside, this thing was relatively easy to install and has given me great peace of mind. I would highly recommend it, it’s a good quality item and has a surprisingly well-designed app to go with it.

Works great so far. I installed this device three days ago and so far I am impressed. My utility is planning on switching to time-of-use rates. I wanted a way to track my power to determine if I would better off switching or opting out and staying at a fixed rate. The app. lets you easily analysis it both ways. It did take a little playing around to figure out how. Here is what you do: Go into "Household Info" and "set utility rate" In my case, it gave me the local utility providers based on my location. Select the Utility and the rate schedule (I picked the fixed rate) and it automatically set the rate info. Go to "units of measure" and set it to "dollars" Go back to home and pick "yr" to see the total cost for the year. Now go back and change to a different rate schedule (time-of-use) Go back to home and pick "yr" again and it will tell you what the cost would have been. from here you can determine the best option. I also have solar which complicates things some. However, he app. handles the net metering seamlessly. I did a test on the export function and it worked fine. It emails you the minute, hour, and day as separate comma separated value (.CSV) files you can open in excel. The data includes all eight sensors I was a little concerned that this device tracks current and calculates power (volt-amps). Based on some previous reviews it would not account for the power factor of inductive loads. After installing it I found it does track actual power (watts) and not the apparent power (volt-amps). I verified this with both a kill-a-watt meter on a window ac unit and with an amp meter on an irrigation pump. The kill-a-watt reported a power lever nearly identical to this device. The current meter gave a value about .78 higher than this device which is about what the power factor should be. This device has wires that attach to the supply power so it must be sensing the phase shift for inductive loads.

I purchased this system to find out what appliances use the most power and to size a potential future solar system. I love it! I installed it easily myself without electrician help but unless you know your way around a panel box, you probably should get help. Tech support was great and had to help because the wifi antenna cable didn't work, but they sent me a new one, allowing me to close my panel box. By testing both legs of 240v appliances I found the ones that were balanced so I could then use only one sensor and a multiplier. Thus, with 8 sensors I could capture 90% of my household load. We changed out some lights for LEDs and I can prioritize my circuits for further energy savings. My hot tub is a huge load and I am using a water temperature sensor and the Emporia Vue to figure out more efficient ways operate it, e.g. lower set point and added insulation, and it seems to be much more efficient. The app is very intuitive and useful, showing graphs by sec, min, hr, day, mo or yr. And at any time you can request a data export and get .csv data files for each time period in your email. Customer support was great, although it took a couple calls to get the replacement cable as it didn't go out even though I got a USPS tracking email, but they fixed that issue and were otherwise very responsive and helpful at all times. My son got a whole-house "smart" system, for a lot more money, and I think I got better detail with the Emporia system (at a lot lower cost) because there is no uncertainty about which appliance or load is consuming the power. Finally, I checked the energy consumption for a few appliances against a Kill-a-watt meter and got good agreement. I wished I had 16 sensors instead of 8, but since I got 90% of the load covered, I can live with that.

The installation process for this device was straightforward, thanks to clear instructions provided. I utilized a double pole breaker to power it up. The phone/web application has all the necessary features, though it may be considered basic. It provides real-time power consumption for all channels, as well as total usage. Additionally, it tracks the average usage per day, week, month and year. You can also input your electricity cost, and the app will display the cost in dollars per kWh. The device has a low latency, providing real-time updates when appliances are turned on or off. It's important to note that this device is not a solution to reducing electricity bills by itself, as it is a monitoring tool. However, it does offer transparency into your energy consumption patterns. You can identify which appliances consume the most energy, such as water heaters, dryers, and air conditioners. This information can help you to make changes in your behavior to reduce your energy consumption. There are some drawbacks to consider. The device relies on a cloud service, and there is no guarantee that this service will continue to be free in the future. Additionally, it is unable to function without an internet connection. It does not integrate with Home Assistant or YoLink, and the graphic capabilities of the application are limited, only showing one channel or total usage. It is not possible to view a stacked plot of different channels. I regret purchasing the version with only eight sensors. I later ordered an additional eight sensors from the manufacturer's website. However, this option was more expensive than purchasing the 16-sensor version, which I would recommend. 8 sensors only capture about 60% of total usage.

I have a plethora of energy meters over the last 20+ years, this is the only one to better my aged and non smart Wattson/Holmes meter. I have Solar panels and an Air sourced heat pump the wattson was the only meter I have come across that could moniter and display net useage. The Emporia coame with 10 10mm sensors and one mains sensor. Very easy to setup but the instructions initially look confusing as they are for the "foreign/American" not the UK supplies. The transmitter has four wires I used a 3 pin plug and connected the Black to live the other three to neutral. Also found the sensors to be a very tight fit so had to grind off the plastic near to the magnets and on some more modern 10mm wiring had to remove the outer grey insulation exposing the inner blue insulation to get the sensor to fit. The software/interface is fanatstic clearly displaying all sensor readings as well showing overall consumptiom/export. The only reading that isnt accurate is the one on my air sources heat pump it is consistently out by more tahn 50% all others seem spot on.

I bought the package with 8 CTs and installed them all. The Phone app is easy to setup . But in the end I've just used the main CT on the Supply input , 2 x 50 Amp CTs one on the Hot water system and another one on the Solar array. This way I can see how much Power is going to the Grid and how much the Hot-water system is drawing , everything else is the difference. What I do not like is the fact the unit has to be Hard wired for power, you really have to have an electrician to do that, my old one was battery powered and lasted months before it needed replacement , this one as you can see, I've put a power plug on it and connected it to a socket I have in the Power Box. Suitable for Australia

Très bon matos pour surveiller la production d'energie des panneaux solaires et la consommation des appareils de la maison au Global et en détaillé. Manque plus que les smart Plug en version EU 230V pour rediriger le surplus solaire dans un ballon d'eau chaude ou charge de batteries et ce sera parfait !

Me parece un aparato genial, lo único que en la mayoría de cuadros eléctricos en España no entra dentro pero ya contaba con ello, los toroidales son pequeños pero sobrados para los cables de una vivienda, lo único malo es que no hay opción de idioma español pero la calidad precio es muy buena

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