How To Install A Home Energy Monitor | Emporia Gen 2 Vue
How To Install A Home Energy Monitor | Emporia Gen 2 Vue
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I wanted to crank up my ability to monitor the energy consumption in my home and decided to go with the Emporia Gen 2 Vue. For the cost and the ability to monitor whole home energy consumption in addition to 16 additional circuits, it is hard to go wrong. Let me know what you guys think down in the comments!
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Chapter
0:00 Intro
1:23 Gen 2 Vue Installation (Module, Main Clamps, and Power)
5:36 Connecting And Testing Gen 2 Vue
7:07 Connecting Individual Circuit Monitoring Gen 2 Vue
8:16 Monitoring Whole Home And Circuits With Gen 2 Vue
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Emporia is just a start up with 30 bros that do a very mediocre business. They treat employees like sh1t, discriminate immigrants and women. I worked there for more than a year, was treated like sh1t, they laid me off for no reason and my goal now is to destroy their reputation. Why? Because this is what bros’ deserve. Sh1t people making sh1t business. Buy another brand. Emporia is POOR QUALITY.
We installed a 25 mW per year ground based solar system eight years ago. We have 3 air-conditioning units that can run 24×7 when needed at no cost. Since we installed the solar system 8 years ago we have paid ZERO dollars to the utility company. The solar system paid for itself in four years. It was my best investment ever and highly recommend solar.
Now with very excessive temperatures we are glad we did this. The electronics to the solar generation provides minute by minute generation details but we don’t look at it anymore.
Thanks a lot for such a nice video! looking forward for the additional information and the consumption spreadsheet example!!
Do you know if I could sync 3 of these on the same app??
Will the emporia vue work on 100amp double breakers? my panel has 2-100amp line running to the double breaker. Emoria vue says monitors are 50AMP rated.
I bought a Sense meter and it’s not great, so I’m going to try the Emporia Vue. I’m hoping that two Vue’s will work together to provide 32 channels. I have solar and a backup battery system so I want to identify power draws when I’m running on battery (e.g. during thunderstorms) and maximize my off-grid time. Right now the house can be drawing 1-2KW and the Sense meter isn’t giving me enough detail about where that’s all going.
I have had mine for almost 3 years without issue. The main reason for installing it was to monitor my portable generator when connected to the panel via an interlock. I can tell not only the real-time load on my generator but just as important I can make sure both of the 120v legs are as balanced as possible. I also have it monitoring my septic effluent pump. When the wattage rises above normal I can tell the effluent filter is getting clogged and when the wattage drops off below normal it means the intake screen on the pump is getting clogged. It has been a great tool for me.
how long it normally it takes to install the system
Are you serious. ???
I’ve had 2 of these since Nov 2022, a year and a half now, one the main panel, and one in the sub panel, I also broke it down further using wall plugs, and it hasn’t had any glitches or disconnects with the wifi. It’s pretty much plug and play. I recommend it.
Just did a bench test of the Emporia Vue 2 app after coming from the Eyedrop 2 monitor, and I have to say the graphing user interface seems really crude compared to the Eyedro, unless I’m missing something.
It doesn’t let you dynamically zoom in and out on the chart details, but has separate tabs only for seconds minutes hours etc.
Is this really how everyone reads the information?
Certainly some aspects of it is very much an improvement like having all the separate subcircuit monitoring and notification capability, but the graphing implementation really looks completely simplistic in comparison to the Eyedro.
Hello greetings from Panama, im looking for a monitor like this, however im a bit confused with the installation, The amazon video says white and blue goes to neutral and black and red goes to a 15A breaker, what is the correct method?
My sensor has gone offline and can’t get it back online
There’s always been a "Home Energy Monitor" on my home since about 1940, when the REA got the local power company to install electric power to our farmhouse in New Hampshire. It’s called a watt-hour meter, and every month someone from the power company would read it and that information would be used to calculate our bill for the period. I remember being taught how to read the instruments when we were in grade school during the War – I don’t remember any of my school mates ever having difficulty reading the meters.
Regarding wire management, can I zip tie all the excess wires to the main line to hold them in place or will that interfere with the signals being sent from the CT’s. Thanks!
Can the entire unit and antenna be mounted on the wall outside the breaker panel and have the sensor wires go through one ( or two ) of the cutouts on the side of the panel ?
Does this give you notifications when a device turns off like a refrigerator so you don’t lose your food?
My instructions said black on one side breaker and red wire to another breaker to power the unit and the blue and white to ground for a 200 amp service.
DOES IT WORKS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES " THE APP"
Did you just pigtail the sensor power to existing breaker?
What are those gloves you wore near the beginning of the video? Are the rated for 240 V ac work?
I use the ShellyEM for monitoring the main feeds, although when i first added them putting pressure on the incoming mains wires caused the breaker they connected to to crack as it was a tight fit (mobile home so mains went directly to the breaker and the breaker fed the panel)
for better signal i mounted a box to the breaker panel and installed the ShellyEM in the plastic outlet box with a blanking plate instead of the panel.
Also i have a separate 2.4ghz network for IOT devices as many have issues on dual band 2.4/5ghz networks with the same SSID.
Excellent video.
I wonder if there will be a day were the NEC changes to have electrical wire terminates with a connector. So that a homeowner can swap out components just with a quick connect.
Question: I’d like to use this to figure out what size battery backup I’ll need. Would it be as easy as checking the usage for devices I want the battery to run, and then using the kilowatts to figure out how many hours of backup the battery will provide? Or is there a better method? Thanks for the video!
The App also has customizable notifications to detect odd situations, like dryer or oven on for excessive time, high washing machine current draw, etc.
I say when figuring turn on EVERYTHING possible, and add your air conditioner AND furnace to the total. Obviously all those things will NEVER be on all at the same time and it comes to the philosophies of more than you need than not enough. It’s always better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. So then maybe even double up the final numbers after you’ve added all those numbers up.
Can be monitored remotely, outside the wi-fi?
Wow, your panel has so much room inside. I’m thinking I need to replace my panel (probably add another sub-panel and relocate circuits).
Also you might consider punching a hole thru the side of your panel so you can get the antenna outside the metal box.
installing in a grounded metal box will probably limit the range of the RF.
How does the wifi signal get through the breaker box?
What’s your commission on the wago lever nuts? I feel like that’s all you talk about in your videos anymore.
I just recently purchased and installed the Emporia level 2 EV charger and I’d like to utilize the load management feature on the app. We use our air conditioning at night during the summer, and the EV will be charging at night so it would be great if the ev charger would turn off when the AC runs. My question is, is the Gen 2 Vue the additional unit needed to utilize that feature?
I am getting an error that says We Have Detected 3 200A Sensors and 2 Valid Voltages? Does anyone know why this is occurring. I do have only 2 – 200 Amp sensors on both main phases and I have the power split to the unit between two adjacent breakers. It is showing I have 3 phases instead of 2 and this is causing 33% more wattage, amps etc. Thanks for your input.
How do you set the 240v timing it by 2.
The Sense home energy monitor is a better option.
Doesn’t look like it’s possible to export the data into something like a larger smart home system, like Home Assistant. If you could it would be an easy buy for me.
Can you track the voltage on each leg to see if there is variation from the incoming line?
What gloves are you wearing?
This guy has electrical experience. Don’t let him get you killed call a licensed electrician. That’s my 2 cents
I have one of these in my panel and i love it. Being kind of a nerd, i like the info
Thank you for sharing. I am planning on installing a monitor and was not familiar with this brand.
Can I catch when a breaker is tripped?
Waste of time and money what you gonna do moniter all the time? Get a life
I have two Emporia Gen 2 Vue units, one for the main panel and one for the sub panel. In the App, you can identify that one of the units is for a sub panel so that the currents don’t get double-counted. Then the subpanel data is properly shown as nested under within the main panel information. In the main panel, I use two of the branch circuits to monitor currents into my interlocked 30-amp emergency generator breaker. [Two sensors so that each generator leg can be individually monitored for load balance.] For such a generator setup, just be sure that the "flow arrow" on the sensor body is pointing toward the breaker. [This works for a solar AC input as well]. For normal branch circuits, the flow arrow must point away from the branch ckt bkr. As Scott mentioned, most other 240 volt loads can be monitored by one current sensor; you just tell the App whether you are using one or two sensors and it does the appropriate math. Oh yeah, NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED!
I think for the time being I’ll use the extra $200 for electricity bill. The price point is too steep at least at this point. Thanks for making the video!
This doesn’t look like something I can do.
Can you please explain why you only need a single CT on a 240 circuit? Does it double automatically?