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Unfortunately, even if Emporia eventually provides an integration to HA…it does no good when the cloud service is down (like it is as I write this…more than 12 hours down so far).  Emporia has decided to NOT allow a local API feed of MY data.  They want to collect it for themselves, and despite the fact that they could even allow a local API that works in parallel with their cloud API, they refuse.  It makes no sense.  It also makes for 1.) Not realtime data in HA, 2.) No data in HA when the Emporia servers are down.  This makes it extremely difficult for anyone who buys the Emporia products to monitor their home solar plant.

I now fully regret my decision to invest in three Emporia Vue energy monitors and the Emporia EV charger.  I’m going to have to either flash the firmware in my monitor units and hope all of that works, or buy someone else’s product.  I will no longer recommend their products to anyone, as these types of business decisions should be punished, not rewarded.

If you are considering Emporia for energy monitoring and would have a problem not being able to access your data for any extended period of time, need realtime data, want to save your historical data for an extended period of time then RUN don’t walk away from Emporia.  Before you do, take a moment to write them an let them know why you’re buying someone else’s product.

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I’ve noticed that the firmware replacement on Github is now for the Gen 2 units.  I have 3 Gen 1 units (lots of circuits).  Does anyone know if the replacement firmware is the same for both and the Github just lists the Gen 2 because it’s the current version?  I used to think very highly of these Emporia units, but the refusal by the company to allow for a local API is ridiculous.  It’s also ridiculous that they came out with a gen 2 version of the units, still using the little “headphone” type plugs for the sensors.  I had been told by their support people that Gen 2 was going to use BNC connectors…they lied.  I’m now very interested in flashing my units with the ESPhome firmware as this outage is BS.  I can also so without hesitation that I would now NEVER recommend this company’s products to my friends.

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