Graph of Total Usage (with Solar Net Metering)

[larryboy]

I have a Vue 2 set up with Solar. It is accurately measuring my net metering on the mains, and if you click on “Mains” you can see a chart that measures this over time, fluctuating from positive to negative (blue to green) depending on solar generation. This is a nice chart. I like it.

However, I would ALSO like to be able to view a graph of Total Usage. Without Solar (e.g., at night or if I don’t hook up the solar CTs), this is easy as the Mains chart is the same as Total Usage, so I can just look at “Mains” to get “Total Usage”. But when solar is generating, there is no way (that I can tell) to plot total usage over time. Why not allow clicking on “Total Usage” to allow plotting this on its own, like you can with “Mains” and each of the individual circuits?

[Emporia Support]

Hello @larryboy this is great feedback!  Currently the total usage is not available to be graphed and I have added this as request.   I’m sure many customers like yourself would like this so we will definitely do our best to get this released just as soon as possible.

Thanks so much for your feedback and please let us know if you have any further feedback on how to improve the user interface.

-Adam

[dheatherly]

Just chiming in to give my support for graphing ‘total usage’.  Would be nice to see to keep track of conservation measures.

[WTFGH]

It would be nice to have a dashboard with Produced Power, Exported Power,Imported Power and Consumed Power.

The way it shows now is very confusing .

[akmeikle]

Bumping this thread as i’d love the ability to track my actual usage over time w/o Solar.  What’s the status of this feature request?

[Emporia Support]

Hello All,

We are doing our best to build the many feature enhancements on our roadmap – both those requested by our customers and those that will make Emporia the best Smart Home Energy Management service available.  We maintain a very small development team in order to ensure this service remains free to you.  Their priorities are often adjusted to fix critical customer facing issues or to build features that will have the broadest impact to our customer base. I will definitely pass your feedback on to the team. Rest assured, we have not lost track of this enhancement.

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Thanks!

James

[NEDKELLYGUY]

Hi, I just installed my VU2. UK single phase. 1 x 200A CT on the consumer unit live inlet. 1 x 50A CT on the solar inverter outlet. 14 x 50A CT on individual breaker circuits.

I bought this to understand exactly how much Solar energy I was producing. How much was getting consumed by the consumer unit and the balance to be shown as exported to the grid. When the sun was low or night I then wanted to see how much energy I was importing from the grid. Having all of these figures available would definitely change my household consumption behaviour. If there is excess solar exporting then we can put a wash/dry on or cook a meal. The App is very confusing in that it shows Total usage which is the addition of solar generation and the consumer unit consumption. This is a pointless figure since “Total usage” in this case does not represent usage ( or consumption ).  Then we have “balance” which appears to be the difference between all of the 50A CT circuits added up then subtracted from the main 200A CT figure. For diagnostics of setup this is useful because it should read zero if the system is setup correctly ( multipliers, all currents accounted  e.t.c. ). However in the case of a solar feed in the circuits this figure just mirrors the solar energy output and therefore masks the differences between 200A CT and the sum of the 50A CT. In addition when looking at the main view ( all circuits ) I can only see “import/export to grid” when selecting “day” resolution.  Additionally in this setting I have 0.00 export !! even though i’m generating over 1800W ( and consuming much less ). So in conclusion this system is useless for Solar installs and the advertised use. I’m pretty annoyed by this so I’m expecting someone to tell me either I’m doing something wrong or correct it so it’s as advertised ( solar NET metering ). The measures and the math are all there just the interface/app needs to arrange the data/dashboard so it’s useful for solar installations. Disappointing.

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