Emporia Vue Power Monitoring Review | HOW TO w/ ESPHome & Home Assistant

* I misspoke about the RX/TX flipped due to habit - RXD to RXD and TXD to TXD is the method this board uses as they have the labels flipped already. Look at my wiring and you can see I have it right but said it wrong.

can confirm... if the manufacturer would put an "advanced" option to put in MQTT credentials and let me get the data out easily, i would buy one today no questions asked. I really appreciate all the details in this video and helping to educate users and push back on manufacturers. In the end, I don't want my devices local because I'm afraid the cloud may go down... i'm sure for many folks the cloud is more reliable than their home setup... the reason for me is that I want to own my devices and my settings and my entire situation. I don't want some vendor deciding what they will do with my hardware or my data. I don't want them deciding they will no longer support the version of android I'm using so I'm just out-of-luck. I want to control my devices, my data and my home. Thanks again man... you're doing a great job!

Always appreciate your great tutorials. I'm 70 years of age and I'm still learning and totally enjoy flashing my devices with Tasmota and playing around with simple python scripts. BTW I did my first coding in 1978 using TRS-BASIC when I purchased my first computer at Radio Shack. It's was a TRS-80 with 4kb Ram. That's right KB not MB. I would write code in Basic for uncounted hours and then save it ever so slowly on an external cassette drive. No floppy drives yet and I couldn't afford one at this time in life with a wife and young kids. In 1978 I was also using very inexpensive X10 Home Automation devices to turn my lights on at scheduled times as early as 1978. That was very cutting edge at the time. Now 50 years later using Home Assistant with my whole home connected and still learning. I recently purchased several Sonoff S31 smart switches with energy monitoring as they were on sale at $10ea planning to get those flashed with Tasmota and monitor the areas that need it adding to the mix of other devices. Anyway thanks again for your great tutorials.👍😊

Just wanted to say thank you for always keeping me up on the latest stuff. I've been waiting for local control of Emporia and only stumbled across it because of you. Thanks!!

I've had mine installed for a year and it works great,I'm very happy with it.I also bought 4 of their smart plugs to check random devices and they work fine as well.

Thank you for this video! I've been on Home assistant since 2015 and have always wanted this level of energy monitoring. I thought it was going to be expensive and difficult. I watched this video on monday, ordered the emporia on tuesday, it arrived on thursday, and within 2 hrs I had it flashed, installed, and posting to Home Assistant. Youre the man. Thanks for putting the time in to make these videos.

I bought a second unit to flash and swap so hopefully they're happy getting more money. Can't wait to get almost instant updates vs the 1 minute updates that the cloud HA integration is able to pull.

Just finally came across the local / esphome stuff, and gotta say I 100% agree with your comments at the 1 minute mark to Emporia... After hemming and hawing for months about it, learning I could do this I went and bought 2 of them right off the Empria web store :) Good stuff!

Thanks flashing worked like a charm Tips for those that come later To remove the old solder my technique was Flux , small bit of new solder , more flux , then draw out with solder braid. Leaves nice clean holes. Re the voltage set the flasher to 3.3 V if you get the wrong pin it just won't work rather than release magic smoke.

Yeah, every CT has a band where it's most efficient/accurate; just like speakers. The pigtail end of the CT will likely be outputting close to the noise level in the circuit at those loads. Multiple wraps gets things further above the sensing threshold.

Exactly what I wanted to see, new sub, thanks!

Great tutorial, thank you! I had to update ESPHome in HA manually to the latest version for the template yaml to compile. I also had to lower the baud rate to 56700 for the backup, as higher speeds gave me read errors. Probably not the best TTL adapter, though I never had any issues so far.

hey @digiblur , just did the emporia to esphome deal following your video was pretty easy thanks to it. only thing that hung me up for a minute was the phases of the breakers and getting them right in the yaml and making sure they matched up with the power wires from the unit. other than that pretty easy deal. thanks for the video.

I agree 100%, I would not have ever taken a moment to look at this product. If it wasn’t for the geeky, smart home community and all of the cool ways they are using it. So please do not try to block this kind of activity and yes, it would be awesome if you just made it simpler by adding an MQTT option.

i bought this with a EV charger. I was able to get on board before the video came out. I feel like i am finally becoming part of the community. Cant wait to set it up. Now i want an open source firmware for the EV Charger.

This video helped me, thank you!

Thanks for making this!

the web installer worked amazing. I had the command line tool set up but ended up not needing it at all.

Managed to suck the solder out of the holes using a solder sucker pushed against the other side of the board while I had the soldering iron through the hole, cleaner it up very nicely and was able to add a strip very easily and is nice and OCD straight :-)

Love the advise to Emporia, have my doubts that they will listen and can guarantee this is not the first time someone has asked them for a local MQQT offload