[flyoffacliff]

Hi, any chance I could get an official update on some of these points please?

[flyoffacliff]

Thanks for the update! Happy to see this product being worked on more recently.

[flyoffacliff]

Thanks for passing this on. Just wanted to provide an update to each question / issue separately.

1.       This was renamed to “Voltage_A” (and B) now, so it’s less confusing, but it’s still inconsistent in that there is an underscore between the word voltage and the letter. The other categories like “Total Usage” have a space between words. This is just a minor nitpick.

2.       The issue of it displaying the misleading number on the list view is fixed, but when you click it, it takes you to the graph view which still has the incorrect data. This is because A and B are combined on the graph view but separated in the list view.

In other words, after I click “Voltage_B  126” in the list view, it opens the graph view showing 252. Perhaps the Vue 3 won’t have this issue because it monitors voltage on each leg separately, but it would be nice if the app displayed it clearly for both generations.

3.       This issue was completely fixed, thank you!

4.       The update they did here sort of went the other direction. Instead of making both views consistent by ADDING the decimal places to the GRAPH view, they REMOVED the decimal places from the LIST view. I can tell by the tiny (several pixel) changes in the height of the bars that the voltages changing but doesn’t show up in the whole number because it’s rounded.

5.       Ok thanks, it would be great if this was added to the CSV data as well.

6.       Something else that would be great would be to adjust the axis on the graph view for voltage so it’s easier the see small changing since each bar is always about the same height.

If you could pass these updates of # 1, 2, 4, and 6 to the developers that would be great. I can provide some screenshots if that would help. Please let me know. 🙂 Thanks again!

[flyoffacliff]

Your link for Vue 2 does not work. It asks me to sign in with a Zendesk account. I searched and couldn’t find it either.

[flyoffacliff]

I would just assume it’s not coming. They’ve been saying this feature and others are in the works for years now. They don’t give time estimates for anything.

[flyoffacliff]

Being able to generate reports would be nice. My electric utility already does this for me and emails them. I’m sure we’ll never see this feature added though.

[flyoffacliff]

@emporiacs

Was trying to quote you in that last message

[flyoffacliff]

I don’t really understand what you mean in this comment because there already is an open API used by PyEmVue, and it’s been around for years

 

[flyoffacliff]

The API is a bit of a mystery it seems. Emporia posted on these forums even fairly recently saying that no API exists, but it definitely does and even one of their own help articles lists some things that use it, so idk.

 

No I can’t recall ever seeing it down until now, and I use it a couple times a week for the past 8 months.

[flyoffacliff]

Yes it does, thanks. When I added them there, It did not make a nice graph like that. There must be another widget on there that you can add separately that’s not on the default energy dashboard.

[flyoffacliff]

It depends on the area, some areas are more strict about it. I would say it’s one of those things you’re not supposed to do but could probably get away with. Just plan on not being able to access it later (connect any extra CTs you may use in the future, and make sure all the connections are tight on the vue).

[flyoffacliff]

You should clamp the center and the left main. Not sure what’s going on with the service neutral and the third main. Are you in The United States? It should have nothing to do with your subpanel though.

If the 20a breakers are not used then go for it. The bridge is for if you’re using an existing breaker that’s in use (since you can only have one wire screwed to the breaker by code)

Your sub panel would be coming off one of the breakers.

[flyoffacliff]

I believe data is retained longer and/or updated more frequently while the app is open. Which is probably a reason they won’t change this. Increasing the timeout would mean putting a heavier load on the servers.

[flyoffacliff]

How did you get each CT on the energy graph in home assistant to show up a separate color like that? I spent hours trying to do that and everyone just said it wasn’t possible.

[flyoffacliff]

Yeah that does seem like a bad implementation. Could you just set it to report after 3 hours? That way it has to be on at least 60 minutes before it can trip.

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