[Eric777]

I just installed the Vue.  I had previously used a different meter (TED 5000), so the basic install concepts were pretty familiar.  A couple of comments, in no particular order.

Our box is pretty full, and we are mostly electrified – I used 12 of the 16 slots just on 240V circuits, leaving 4 for assorted 120V circuits.  I still have a lot of 120V circuits that are unmonitored.  In addition, at some point in the life of this house, the panel box had been replaced (no idea why – possibly when solar was put in?  Possibly upgrade 100A->200A?).  So there were wire nuts galore (even on some heavy gauge wires) in there to get everything connected.  That surprised me.

Numerous circuits were mis-labeled.   “Old range” – what’s that?  Turned out to be a heat pump.  And I had one labeled as “Heat pump” that I have demoted to “Mystery circuit” that has never drawn a single watt.  Possible that this is a dead circuit that got capped off somewhere.

Before I started the install, I had a SolarEdge whole house monitor that never worked, and I had to uninstall that just to try and reduce clutter.  As I was doing this, I realized the installer had never connected up the 240V lines – the stupid thing never had power.  I wonder if this is why it never worked.  Sigh.  The thing could never monitor individual circuits, so even if it had worked, I wouldn’t have learned as much as I would of with Vue.

I used Wago wire connectors instead of wire nuts.  Personal preference.  Wire nuts around wires with different gauges can be tricky sometimes.

In the app, it would be nice to be able to get a graph of “Balance”.  I still have about 350W persistent load than I would like to try and understand, and if I could graph it, I would be able to get a better sense of what it might be.

I didn’t have any trouble with the CTs, really.  But it would be nice to have smaller CTs suitable for 20A circuits as they would be more compact, easier to install, and possibly make it easier to get the cover back on the panel box.

I wonder if it makes sense to have some CTs with shorter cords to reduce the inevitable rats nest.

The phono jacks would sometimes start to pop out a little bit as I was manipulating the box.  Or even completely fall out.  Just before buttoning up the panel box, I used a plastic spudging tool to push on all of the jacks to make sure they were all well seated.

I used zip-ties to neaten things up once I had things kind of situated.  That helped a lot to keep the white cords out of the way when I was trying to put the cover on the panel box again.

I see that I can download raw data in csv form.  Is there any kind of API that I can use to look at data?

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