Emporia Smart Home Energy Monitor with 8 50A Circuit Level Sensors | Real Time Electricity Monitor/Meter | Solar/Net Metering

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Here’s how that process would work: Once you’ve labeled the smart plug according to what’s plugged into it, you could go into the app and slot the smart plug under whichever circuit it’s on.

Home assistant will stack the entities in the bar chart so you can get a visual of which circuit uses the most energy. From what I can tell, the time platform is working as every single status message from the Emporia has the correct time stamp .I know these devices hold the data on a cloud, with potential future risks that that poses but still they seem the best option at the moment. I started up ESPHome, went to the dashboard (btw, you can also do this without the dashboard and I think I read that the dashboard only works on Linux) and generated a new stub for the Emporia. APPLIANCE MONITORING WITHOUT GUESSWORK: Ad up to sixteen (16) 50A sensors to accurately monitor your air conditioner, furnace, water heater, washer, dryer, range, etc. Going to try get it working with three phase inputs some time soon, not sure how hard/easy that will be.

The competing Sense Energy Monitor uses two sensors attached to the two main electrical wires coming from your electrical utility’s meter. This works fine, no need as far as I can see to wire the power lead directly into the consumer unit. Unfortunately the upload via wifi fails and the ESPHome program will not recognize my serial port to do a wired transfer. I have found that it is often simpler to have some intermediate, global, logical variables that encapsulate particular states.

Ideally, I’d like to program more complex Time-Of-Use rules to enable certain loads based on time and load status of other loads. The simple Emporia iOS and Android app will show when and how much electricity you are consuming and when and how much excess energy you are producing back to the grid — giving you keen insight into the impact of your solar panels as they relate to your energy use.