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Still nothing. Ridiculous. This should be simple software programming. Emporia doesn’t appear to care.

Here’s another thread noting the problem (#7796, August 2021):

Support for multiple Vue2’s in the same panel is supposed to be done better in a future update, as well as better support for 240V circuits (individual phase roll-up, no multiplier, one/two clamp selection, etc).  ETA unknown – have seen mentions of spring/summer, but now fall is approaching.

And this (#8206, January 2022):

There have not been any app or functionality enhancements regarding monitoring with multiple Vue2’s, nor better 240V circuit support.  Emporia’s focus seemed to be working on the EV car charger.  They also released a web site – in addition to the apps.  But all the functionality on the app remains fundamentally the same as it has been over the past 9 months ago.

And then there’s the related problem that you can’t even combine sensors that are connected to the same Vue 2, so you end up with two separate entries for any 240v appliances connected via two 120v circuits (February 2022, #8376):

I contacted customer support about this and they responded that they’re “hoping” to have the ability to lump two circuits together by the end of this year (2022).  Not sure if this is just a canned response.  Judging by when this thread was first started it’s been a feature that’s been “coming” for quite some time. now. lol.

This is basic stuff. And no, “nesting” doesn’t really help.

It’s increasingly clear that the Vue is at best a cheap-ish piece of hardware that you could flash with ESPHome and use with Home Assistant entirely without the Emporia software, but I bought the Vue 2 (two of them actually) to avoid that time-consuming process. The pitch was plug-and-play, but because Emporia hasn’t added some of these basic software features it isn’t.

 

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