I’ve just set up an Emporia Vue monitor, which has one channel per breaker in my house, which seems to give a great amount of detail on their app.
When I connect the ‘emporia’ integration I receive 3 sensors per circuit - 1 minute, 1 day, 1 month. These show a total for that period of time, updated every minute - ie the month counts up every minute and resets every month, the day increases throughout the day and resets overnight, and the minute just shows the amount of energy for the last minute.
I assumed that I could add any of these to the energy monitor, but only the day and month sensors show up for some reason. Nevermind, I assumed the 1 day would be enough granularity for this to work, but when I add it, the data that appears in Energy dashboard bears no resemblance to the energy I’m using and also doesn’t seem to update.
As for costs, I have a sensor from my smart meter which shows the current price per kWh, which is handy, and I seem to be able to add that as the sensor used to track cost.
Can anyone help me work out what to add in the energy monitor so that it actually shows my usage? I have all this data yet currently no ability to integrate it properly.
I’m running HA on an Rpi 3B. Just got my Emporia connected and running.
No luck when I go to Settings/Devices and Services and type in Emporia.
Searched and reading and it looks like I need to install HACS but any of the instructions gloss over the basics so are a bit beyond my HA knowledge level so far as the instructions don’t match what I’m seeing on my screen.
Hoping someone can give me some steps to get HACS installed and hopefully get to the Emporia Integration.
This is my system info:
Home Assistant 2022.7.7
Supervisor 2022.09.1
Operating System 8.4
Frontend 20220707.1 - latest
It’s says the Emporia Vue integration is installed. Nothing jumping out at me on the overview panel but I’ll come at it fresh tomorrow.
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks for your interest.
Hi Brian,
I’m about to buy the Emporia Vue energy monitore, and wanted to know how you did integrating it into HA?
Your last message was that nothing showed up on your screen but you’d get back to it the next day.
Thanks
Yes I got it going. It’s been a while now but the answer was in an Integration i was told to try in HACs .
There is no API on the Emporia yet (although they told me it’s on their list) so the integration emulates the phone app so it’s via the cloud not direct but it’s been pretty reliable so far. It got the Emporia values into HA but i’ve not done much with them yet. I plan to tackle it this winter. I have never regrets going with the Emporia.
I also had the ha-emporia-vue integration for a while on my Emporia Vue 2. Unfortunately, I kept having issues with it, the emporia endpoint kept disconnecting, I hated that it went to the cloud and came back. So I found this project:
Using firmware flashing, I was able to convert the device over to ESPHome which allows me to access it directly, no more cloud, no more Emporia Vue “API”. The developer magico13 was very responsive to issues, but to be honest it seemed to be the most problematic integration I had (constantly getting disconnected, timeout or throttled issues and having to reset the integration) so converting to ESPHome made the most sense for me.
I was even able to flash it without having to solder anything, I simply had a buddy hold the pins in place while I reset and firmware flashed it. Would add that I had been dabbling with ESPHome for a few months before I tried to do this.
After some initial conversion pains, I now have all the same entities I had before and the data and integration is WAY more stable.
Thanks @AgingTechNerd and @alex3m3ti8
After much reading and comparing, I went with the Shelly 3EM.
Installed it only 3 days ago (easy), so still learning what I can do with.
I’m disappointed thought that it’s reading power continuously but HA only shows me energy every 30min intervals… Difficult to do any automation 30min after the fact
But I’m hopeful this will be sorted soon by the Community
