[ChrisB]

Thanks for the suggestion, that would be amazing if it works!
I can actually try that as I have 3 sets of VUE monitors, the third one is in a true sub panel, I can temporarily steal its two 200A CT’s, and try this week end.
If that works, this has to go in an FAQ and even have a kit to go as an add-on for Amazon.

[ChrisB]

If your main panel has a split like that, Emporia is not for you!

[ChrisB]

I agree with all of you, I posted in 2021 about it:

Combine Main of multiple Vues

nothing was done.

I just purchased their car charger at Christmas as I wanted to charge the car only on solar panel excess, but I now realize it will not never work because 400A split service in (2) 200A main panels so it does not know what is consumed on the second main. I just forgot about it. As many of you wrote this is common these days, and they are killing themselves not to do it as they want the customers with solar, batteries and electric cars, and those customers often have larger homes with split service.

Anyway, that makes that charger pointless and I should return it on Amazon. In fact, I might put my 3 panel Vue setups on bay as all stats are pointless, it was just good to analyze what was using power, but this is NOT an energy management app for any larger home with split service on one bill.

As the owner of a small softwire company just like them, I really wanted to support them, but this is a bad business and ignorance of market needs while it would be such an easy think to implement from the technical perspective. They are using a cloud database like PostgreSQL and such agregation tables are easy to build (trust me I am a data integration engineer).

Sad.

[ChrisB]

BTW, good customers like me (I bought 3 times already) who love the Emporia products and company (I am a software engineer too) would love to buy more starting with the EV charger, and of course the batteries. However, we can’t without that software enhancement as we cannot know the overall house energy is consuming or producing enough to charge batteries. So that is a pretty good RoI to boost sales, especially batteries as that is major league in terms of company profit and value. Make me a beta tester, my engineers do that to me all the time!

[ChrisB]

I have the exact same situation and so do many others.

I actually bought 3 Gen 2 Vue Energy Monitors:
– main panel 1 with solar and all 220 appliances (dryer, pool, car charging, etc.)
– main panel 2 with all 110 circuits (20 feet away from first panel)
– sub panel of main panel 2 on opposite side of the house

I talked to the Emporia team (BTW, they are awesome!) an was told the next version would have the ability to create a virtual house main panel in which you could add the main panel 1 and 2 as sub panels, but I guess it did not happen.

This is a trick they could do on the cloud database (then of course they need to add the UI), but then one can really measure the house overall energy and match the house bill.

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