Great video. Just ordered mine. Had a major solar system installed last year. Finally getting full monitoring between production/usage and now our main subpanel in The farmhouse. I can now monitor the barn and the individual circuits within the house. Excellent information and very much appreciate it! Keep up the good work.

Excited for this review! Was right on the verge of picking up one.

I bought the version 3 using your link below, you earned it as I wanted to know how this thing worked AND, nothing in the box really told me where to hook up the main supply wires. LOL...Install was easy, I have a 30 place box, 3 double breakers, a place to power this unit, it did get crowded, but not too bad, connecting the device to the app and network went fast and flawless, it logged in and booted up instantly. I am short a few items, but I chose the most important and don't really think I need a second kit for the last 4 things. Thanks for doing the video, this company got their money worth sending you the kit. BTW my balance is pretty good so far, I gotta crank everything up and test it out under full load! This stuff is fun to mess with!

Great video with lots of helpful infomration!

Niceeee... vid. Well done. I have the Gen 2 and it works simply great!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Emporia devices! I'm doing a remodel and will have a TON of circuits. I'm glad to read on their site I can do "nesting" so I can track MANY circuits beyond 16... well, if they all fit in the panel, right?!?!

thanks handydad, i'm sold!

Nice video! You did a really good job detailing everything. Did you end up using the ethernet cable or are you using the wifi connection?

I use a Sense energy monitor at my house and it is slow to recognize electrical devices. The Emporia Vue is an interesting device.

One thing I did on my vue 2 was combine two breaker circuits into one current clamp channel to have better coverage with only 16 channels. You get the combination sum of both circuits as a result. It sums the current. If you do this make sure you put clamp on the circuits that share the same split phase connection. If you don’t they will not add, they will cancel each other out.

Nice review. I have the Sense currently and im in the process of a renovation thinking of adding the Emporia. I like the sense web app a lot but wish it did better at device detection

Very helpful video. I just got rid of a Sense system because it was (1) slow to recognize devices, if at all, and (2) could not accurately track solar input and produce the net metering values you showed with the Vue. I am curious what connections with Vue enabled extracting the solar and net metering data.

Hi, thanks for all of the valuable info! Two Questions: Did you have to buy extra CT sensor clips for your Solar System? Is there a way you analyze more than 16 circuits? I gave 32 separate circuits in my electrical panel (about 8 of those are double breakers)

Very good video on a subject that is of great interest to me. We have solar panels for a few months now and I couldn't figure out how you incorporated your solar production in with your home energy use in the Emporia Vue app; or was it Home Assistant? I'd love to do that. Thanks for the great video.

Interesting product and well done on the video. Does this show Watt hour in the details?

Great Video, Gen 3 looks worth it

Nice video. Can you use it to monitor certain circuits? Example: I have a well pump that is powered through my breaker box, and instead of installing a water monitoring device, I can just do this and monitor if the pump is operating when it shouldn't be, or for periods of time that is incorrect. If the pump isn't running, not that much water can leak, but if the pump is running continuously, regardless of where the leak is, I have a big problem. Example: can you have the program send you an alert if it runs above so many amps / hour, or runs for so many minutes? Also, if you have two breaker boxes, do you just run the wires somehow to across the two boxes, or does that create a problem. Thank you.

I want solar on my roof, Ranch house, no trees blocking my roof and the sun (when it's not cloudy) is shining down all day long. Besides, those panels might block some heat in summer... ahh but what happens in winter when it's always cloudy and snow get's on them? Great video, I think I am going to get this thing, I want to use in home assistant, just so I have one GUI to view all my stuff. Thanks for doing this video, I just found this product and wanted some information about it (4/30/24) One more thing, I rewired a lot of my house and not 100% sure if I have each leg well balanced, this device will help with that too.

I wonder if they have it setup to use a gen 2 and gen 3 together. I know you could use a multiple of the gen 2 units but it was a bit clunky in the app. I would love to add a gen 3 as the main one and then use my gen 2 for all of the remaining circuits.

My Vue 3 just arrived today !! one question, how the heck are you monitoring the solar generation through the app? I’m really curious about that aspect.

For the dryer circuit, you may want to measure both branches, since the motor tends to run on 120V and the heater on 240V.

do the instructions explain that if you are going to use the Ethernet connector, that the Emporia box should probably be kept outside the panel, since you aren't supposed to run Low Voltage and Line Voltage in the same enclosure, without a suitable separator of some kind? I'm not an electrician, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, last night, and this came up when I installed a gang box with both AC, Ethernet and coax (from different conduits, but into the same box).

Did you notice better accuracy? I have a gen 2 and they do some hand waving about what is “zero power use.” For example, many things draw tiny amounts of power just to be plugged in. I think they say if it is less than the error budget, let’s call that zero power. Did you notice higher accuracy or the ability to see tiny loads that you couldn’t before? Can you tell if a cell phone charger is using 2 watts or 1 watt?

The old generation 2 was not able to measure active power and distinguish it to passive and apparent power. This gives wrang results in case of inductive loads. Do you know if gen3 is able to measure active power ?

Do you know if you can install two units and run them on same app account if you more than 16 circuits? Great video thanks for taking time to make.

Nowhere I can find shows the length of the wires for the sensors. Any way you can provide that?

I see 4 circuits on the left side that are not clamped are you not monitoring those?

Can it show the voltage measurements in 3 phase circuits ?

Wish they had smart plugs that handled full 15A and maybe a 20A version as well... My freeze dryer runs for 24-48 hrs straight and can pull upwards of 1500W+ when the vacuum pump, compressor and heating elements are all running... Smart Plugs are only rated at 10A, or 15A Peak for 1 hour/day...

Have you considered or with the Gen 2 flashing with ESPHome?

Can the CT's be split up with some in a main panel and some in a critical circuits subpanel, using just one Vue monitor?

Can two of these units be used together? I have a sub panel.

I'm confused. On the installation instructions on the app, it states to use two CT's ( one on each leg ) of a double pole breaker for better accuracy yet on the provided "Helpful Tips" card ( inside the box on the top when you first open it ) it states " Connect to only one lead,then use a multiplier in the app"

I still stand by my comments for your first review :)

Hello friend, I have the gen2 and it works well. What I don't like is that when there is an interruption in the internet service, the vue does not save information about my consumption and then update it in the cloud when the internet returns again and I would like to know if they have already resolved it. This is in the new version, I don't know if you have noticed this problem.

Is the data accessed in the App cloud based? So if Emporia ever shuts down you can no longer see the use data?

Can WE send the data on our Home Assistant. I don't want a cloud solution (useless for domotic and useless for privaty)

Can you use this in Canada.

Emporia should come up with a system that allows twice as many CT sensors! Say 32 sensors. Nowadays, many electrical panels have 40 circuits. It would be a no-brainer from their standpoint. They already have everything developed. Just increase price by 50% to cover the extra sensors. They’d probably profit even more.

Is it worth upgrading over gen 2?

Does the Vue gen 3 or the app show the actual, real time voltage ? It must calculate the power consumption using a voltage measurement with the CT's but it would be nice if it provided a readout on the app of the voltage.

Still using eyedro, only on mains though

Is the 3rd Gen really that much better then the 2nd Gen if you dont have solar and just want to monitor daily usage and real time usage?

Larger Clamps - sales in UK and EU fall / complaints rise! Can you get the data out yet? Other than CSV downloads?