Emporia Vue 3 Home Energy Monitor - Smart Home Automation Module and Real Time Electricity Usage Monitor, Power Consumption Meter, Solar and Net Metering for UL Certified Safe Energy Monitoring

I just received my Vue 3 this week and it has been online for less than 24 hours, but I'm already impressed with the value this system provides. I installed it myself, and it took less than two hours. I'm not an electrician, but I am pretty handy with household DIY, and am used to working with electronics, etc. Working in a breaker panel is very dangerous, so if you have any doubts, please just pay an electrician a few hundred dollars to install it for you. The installation documentation is very good, and straight-forward. Emporia also has a lot of information on their website. I had a complete gameplan and realistic expectations going in. I have a total of 20 breakers, so i knew I would need to be creative to get full coverage. The only 2-pole breaker that I didn't use a single CT and multiplier on was my dryer, because I knew dryers are notoriously unbalanced. This was confirmed by my readings washing and drying 4 loads of laundry last night. Good call. My HVAC and water heater seem balanced enough to use one CT and a 2x multiplier going by my readings so far. I also combined several circuits on the same legs (2 wires/alternating breakers) to achieve full coverage with 16 CTs. This works well. I also have a couple of breakers for items I rarely use, like a floor heater in the basement, so I opted to just leave them unmonitored and if I do use them, they'll show up in the "balance" from the mains. The last atypical part of my setup was to connect the hot wires for the monitor to 20 amp breakers instead of the recommended 15s. This was just due to their proximity to the monitor and required me to replace the supplied 14 gauge pigtails with 12 gauge THHN. Easy peasy. I also bought a four-pack of Emporia's smart plugs to cover one outlet at the panel that has its own breaker, and to give me the flexibility to drill down individual appliances on a monitored or unmonitored circuit. Adding the Vue and the SPs to the app literally could not have been easier. If you prepare by reading their documentation first, you'll be ready to hit the ground running. Write down the circuits and ports to which they're connected. Know any CTs that will need to be merged, like my dryer. I also nested my unmonitored SPs under the main device, and monitored SPs under the appropriate circuits. All was easy to do in the app. So far, the balance, or the difference between the reporting from the mains and the totals from the monitored circuits has been negligible. I know this will vary, but I think I've got it as good as I'm going to get it with 16 CTs. I'm happy. The provided data in the app is great. If I could make any suggestions, one would be to make it easier to look at a specific time on the graphs. You have to slide the graph to the right to go back in time and you're limited by the width of your screen. Going back several hours can take dozens of swipes. That's annoying. Put a drag-bar at the bottom, and/or allow me to pick a time manually. Also, you can only see spikes (such as HVAC startup) at the "second" resolution, so if you're trying to determine peak loads for an alternate energy source, there's no easy way to get them in the app. The export feature certainly helps by generating granular spreadsheets at all resolutions, though. It just emails a link once created, which is pretty slick. The whole Emporia Vue system is meeting or exceeding my expectations at this point. If anything changes, I will update my review.

So far I love this thing. Works great and is relatively simple to use with an iPhone. So long as this company does not brick people device by trying to force some paid subscription I will always recommend this to anyone that has a reason to monitor/track their consumption. I would like a model that offers more connection though. Sounds crazy but a 32 input model would be real good. Setup was very easy. If you have any electrical knowledge you will not struggle to setup. If you do not YouTube is a great resource to show you how to get it all connected. But even then the guides do great as well. App performs well on iPhone. Once you get a hang of it it’s real easy to see your power consumption under almost any unit time interval. 1min to years at a time. You can see your live consumption. You can name each circuit so you know which is which without having to reference your breaker. If not they give you labels you can place in your breaker to known which number is which. Packaging was acceptable. Now I know people want to know about accuracy. So far, I have to say, it’s near identical match to my utility providers logs on my consumption. Most of the time I think the error if any is caused by rounding by my provider. In other words Emporia is giving me a more precise measurement which I love to see. Oh and as a bonus. If you aren’t lazy like myself you can adjust the length of the wires for better wire management with some wire splicers and a little screw driver. I’m only a week in though. I will modify this review if things change but so far I am super happy with the simplicity of setup and in its performance. If you can still read this portion you can be certain I love it. I’m back. It’s been longer. My experience with this has only gotten better as the app has improved drastically. Very very happy with this product. Accuracy has been spot on. Helped me lower my bills too. You will find after the first couple months you will probably not use the app much but it’s very nice to have at the end of the month to see if everything adds up and if you can reduce power consumption. Thank you Emporia— love knowing there are still people doing good work out there. All around impressed.

Volevo sapere dove andavano i miei watts e con questo ho le idee molto chiare. Supporto post vendita veloce e preciso via email solo in Ingelse ma non credo sia un problema con i traduttori gratuiti a disposizione di tutti. Di facile isntallazione previo stacco della corrente dal contatore e non solo sul quadro! Per noi che abbiamo praticamente solo monofase basta collegare solo una delle pinze amperometriche più grandi sulla fase in ingresso, dunque ne avanzerete due di quelle grandi. Consigliato

Simple à installer et à utiliser

Das Gerät ist eigentlich ganz Gut. 1 Stern Abzug da es mit der Original Firmware nur über die Cloud nutzbar ist und in Homeassistant dann nur mehr 5 Min. durschnittswerte ankommen. 2 Sterne Abzug da die Stromkabel mit Falschen Farben angeschlossen sind und ich somit ein Gerät Zerstört habe. !!! Blaue Kabel sind im Wechselstromkreis immer Nullleiter und niemals eine Phase !!!