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I agree, I suspect the CTS would work if we would cut the wires and connected them to the Vue 3, but it would be nice to have a definite answer from Emporia, and if it would work with drawbacks, what these would be….

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If your vue is monitoring the grid input output, but is it not monitoring all the breakers below that, then the balance with never be good.

There is no way to account for the solar production if it is not monitored….

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Yes there is, I just stumbled upon it….

Support for hybrid Solar setup – Emporia Community (emporiaenergy.com)

Apparently a new firmware has been released, and a new option in the app for CT settings lets you set the solar CTs as Bidirectional.

I just did it, and will have to wait until tonight to see if the power reverses when my inverter consumes power instead of generating it.

Buit this is exciting!! I wish Emporia would have notified its users that such a critical and log awaited feature had been implemented.

Thank you anyway!!

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WHAAATTT. I can’t believe Emporia did not notify us of this……

I am glad I came by the forum and came across this, I am going to try that out right away and will report back.

As I tried activating the option, it told me my device needed a firmware update, and it is doing it now.

TWO remarks.

Thank you for finally doing this !!!, but Emporia, please send an email to your users informing them of this new critical feature for people with hybrid solar install

How come my Vue 2 did not upgrade its firmware automatically before ?

Excited….

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If you do not have CTs on ALL the breaker in the panel, the balance will never be right as the grid CT see the true grid import / export, but all the various consumption generation are not being monitored.

You can still make the total of all the CTs that are monitoring the house to find out your home consumption, but you need to do that manually in excel.

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There is indeed a precise procedure to follow when setting up CT for solar.

If you don’t remember reading / following it, then you may want to go back to the installation manual. each step is important.

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The CT may have died, it happened to me once.

The easiest way to know if that is the case, is to swap this CT with another one by unplugging it and another and plugging them back in each other’s place.

If the problems follow the CT, then the CT is dead. If it does not, then you may have a problem with that port of the device.

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Here is a thread with an emporia support person (jim@emporia) confirming you absolutely can pass two wires in a single cllamp, if they are on the same phase and do not exceed the amp rating

Clamping multiple wires

from his answer:
” If they are all on the same phase, then you shouldn’t have an issue, as long as you’re not exceeding 50A.”

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As far as I know Emporia never said it cant be done.

Emporiacs is just a member as far as we know, and there are many threads that discuss the fact it absolutely can be done, I believe some with the input from Emporia support.

In doubt you can contact support directly.

 

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Although the Vue does not record data locally, it is supposed to keep track of the consumption, and account for it when the connection comes back, so the total is correct.

But the details are lost

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I don’t believe this is correct.

You can put a clamp on several wires to measure a combined load, as long as they are on the same phase.

 

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You can find the specs on the web site.

They also have a large version of the 50Amp clamps

 

Accessories

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Thanks

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May I ask how the integration is done, and especially how home assistant is pulling the emporia data?

Thanks

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I have a spreadsheet that does that for my particular installation, but the import has to be done manually.

Also, unless it changed recently, if you want to graph minute data, you have to download that weekly, as they don’t keep it longer…

 

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