I’m considering getting an Emporia Vue to monitor my home power usage. One integration I would like to implement is alerting me when the clothes dryer cycle is complete (it is on a dedicated circuit).
Does the Emporia Vue HACS integration refresh data frequently enough to reasonably alert me when my dryer is done? Has anyone here implemented this (or similar) automation? If so, how did it go?
I have the Vue installed and also have a specific automation for my Washer and Dryer cycles. @crlogic is correct, the integration update is set to one minute so we don’t abuse the Emporia Vue API and get locked out. Nevertheless, I have mine setup to trigger on a drop in usage after 3 minutes before sending out an alert. This prevents false positives from both machines while there might be a slight pause in the cycle. Works well!
It’s pretty reasonable, maybe a few minutes to update at most. I’m using it to monitor when our EVs starts/stops charging. GM decided that I needed to pay for notifications for our Volt, and I decided otherwise (we have two full BEVs and a plugin hybrid, ,so we have to shuffle the charge cable occasionally). I actually had to add a delay since EVs sometimes wake up and sip some power and go back to sleep, but it’s been pretty solid.
The out-of-the-box reasonable response frequency time is 1 ping per minute; pinging more often risks Emporia API lockout.
Flashing the Vue base station box with ESPHome is an option to get faster response times, but you will lose the Emporia cloud services.
Folks who own the Vue are perdy happy with it.
I’ve been using HA for a long time, but I’m totally new to ESPHome. Is it possible to back up the Vue firmware, flash to ESPHome, and then revert to the official Vue firmware if EPSHome doesn’t work out so well?