It’s been a little while but I did follow a guide for the emporia vue.
There are newer versions and other similar brands out there if I find the guide I used it will be fairly specific to this hardware (certainly the base code setup)
I will look tomorrow
I have two 150a panels in my house and I have 2 emporia vue 2’s one on each panel. I reflashed them with esphome so I own the data, it’s not going out to emporia. but they work as individual devices collecting data from the clamps.
For non 240 loads you could also use smart plug with power consumption if you’re just wanting to track that device. In my use case I am capturing all usage from the two big clamp at the top of each panel then each clamps usage which gives me an ‘untracked’ value also since I have more than 16 circuits in each panel I cannot track every circuit.
The CT clamp reads the current without having to be directly connected to the wire. It just ‘clamps’ onto the leg and is non invasive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_clamp
Here’s one of my panels with the clamps on. The top clamps read total power, the individual clamps below are reading one leg each. for a 240v you need both since each leg is only supplying 120. My dryer also sometimes only uses 120v when it’s not actively heating.
I have a couple emporia vue (2’s) and for my electric clothes dryer I just use a CT clamp on each leg and sum them.
Within the vue esphome config:
# Combined Dryer Sensor
- platform: template
name: "Total Clothes Dryer Power"
id: total_dryer_power
lambda: return id(cir9).state + id(cir12).state;
update_interval: never
device_class: power
state_class: measurement
unit_of_measurement: "W"
filters: *throttle_avg
I paid $99 for one on 10/25/25 from microcenter
There is a community here, maybe I need to try to get people engaging in it, starting a game thread etc…
Actually, in my case reddit forced me to obtain answers without visiting the site because it is hostile to me… I’m clearly in the minority along with you all :). But, while I’d love the real users there to move here, reddit the company can rot.
Making me log in, to view anything will just further remove my eyes from anything created there. I only visited a couple subreddits (primarily my local soccer team’s game thread) to view the comments. Since I deleted my account 3 years ago I guess I’m going to miss out on that.
I’m tired of winning boss
Twas, but a joke…
It’s insane for a product whose price has gone through the roof before the ram shortage
I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to unplug them at the end of each day!
Or won’t put it behind a paywall (connect+) eventually
Ya, there’s no easy fix and I’m not an expert but it seems most of my kids friends (parents) version of parental controls on their devices was “Good luck, we’re all counting on you”
It needs to be easier for the average parent l. I bet if you put a hard roadblock in front of Google, Apple, Microsoft regarding not being able to release an app, an os unless it met some formalized level of parental controls and they’d figure it out pretty quick.
Ya my kid is 16 now and the total lack of any real unified parental controls has been extremely disappointing through the years.
For the longest time my kid was on android phones (because I’m on Android phones) which had family link which did “ok” but not enough control, YouTube for example was too restrictive based on age and I couldn’t adjust it.
Windows PC had family safety which also had various random controls but they really only worked for straight up Ms products (so edge was installed) and locked down installing other browsers
Neither of these are great and they require someone to dig through, setup, and ADMINISTER these things
I added pihole into the mix because I’m me and was able to. Trying to further filter my kids’ access to things I didn’t want them to stumble onto.
Now enter roblox which in reality I should have just said no and not them on it. But that did IMHO lead to discord which much like Roblox if you have “Discord” the door is now open to adult content.
Discord, unless I hover over and block servers (at domain) or through hovering, discord was another gateway to adult content.
No unified way to protect kids and these tech companies didn’t help
“Adult content” just means anything not appropriate for an 8yo politics, war, porn whatever…
All these gateway applications companies should be responsible for those lack of containment restrictions for kids, or tying into something unified would have been even better.
A true nightmare managing all that!
NAS running ~15 docker (frigate, nextcloud, immich, plex etc), two windows VMs one is managing my NAS backups to cloud.
Couple RPIs one does Home assistant, one does pihole and weewx.
All my Network gear, and poe for APs and a few of my cameras,
2 x 12 channel whole house amps fed by 11 Chromecast audios (that’s going to be a disaster one day)
That “idles” just under 300w but can obviously jump all over.
Rest of my security cameras are poe from another location (since I couldn’t get the network drops back to the server room for the majority of the cameras, uses another 65w , but that’s a bit misleading as it is picking up other things since it’s not as isolated.
I believe this is it: https://emporia-vue-local.github.io/docs/tutorial/intro/