Emporia Vue add-on showing a days energy data in 1 hour

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Hi,

I am using the emporia vue add on to get my energy monitoring data into home assistant.

I have added all my devices to grid consumption in the energy tab. However, i get a weird display on the graph. Every day at 12-am-1am, it shows the energy consumption for the whole day, for that 1 hour. then at 1am-2am, it shows a days data, however in the minus. This does not corollate to the data shown on the emporia web app.

Thanks

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Hi Will!

Are you using magico13/ha-emporia-vue: Home Assistant Integration for Emporia Vue Energy Monitor (github.com) to get Emporia Vue into Home Assistant? If so, this is a custom integration and not directly supported by Home Assistant. It might be something you should open an issue here. The developer is super cool and was really helpful in addressing some of the issues I had with it.

I think part of the issue here is that the time it takes from your device sending to emporia’s servers to when the integration get the information back that timing is just off around midnight and doesn’t reset correctly which causes these kinds of weird values in Energy Dashboard. Not sure what really can be done about that but the developer might be able to look and assist better for you.

Hope that helps!

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Hi Alex,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, that is the correct add on.

I will drop this post over there.

That is what I thought too, so I gave it a few days to try to resolve itself, but unfortunately it didn’t.

To be honest, worst case, even if I could just ignore that timeframe it would be nice.

Thanks for your help!

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Yup. The dev is super cool and been awesome whenever I posted issues.

One other way to go if you are not afraid to get your hands a little dirty is to reflash the device with ESPHome which will allow you access to the device directly without having to roundtrip up to Emporia’s website.

emporia-vue-local/esphome: Custom component for ESPHome to add support for the Emporia Vue 2 energy monitor (github.com)

You lose some of the features that you get with the Emporia Vue App and Emporia Website but I have been able to simulate most of those features myself using Home Assistant. And of course this is not supported by Emporia directly.

I went this route a while ago because I had put in an all-encompassing outbound anonymizing VPN which caused my Emporia Vue integration to go offline a lot.

If you go this route, you might wanna have a solid understanding of what your current usage per circuit is, it helps to know that so that when you are migrating to the new entities provided by ESPHome you can adjust for any anomalies. For that reason, I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who JUST picked up their Emporia Vue and doesn’t have a good idea what their average usages is per circuit. Also I’d say this might not be the best thing to jump into ESPHome first with. ESPHome is pretty powerful and awesome, and knowing a little bit about it before you tackle reflashing Emporia Vue might be the best way to go. But hey, that’s why we have this community board too, right?