[wbarber69]

There is an integration for emporia through HACs. But it still requires cloud usage.  Which is slow and unreliable.  I do use it for automations though.  Stuff like the dishwasher or clothes dryer etc.  things that are t critical if they are a few minutes behind.

[wbarber69]

Not sure what country you are in, but in the US you don’t simply such a bar across two breakers, they don’t work like that.  You need a common trip breaker.  Basically, you either need to add in a single 2 pole breaker to power your vue, or use something like your stove or hvac breaker to provide the power. In a 3 phase situation you’d need to have a 3 pole breaker to do the job.  Never assume that power is off when it’s obviously not because you’ve tied your power meter to different phases.  Once again, simply bonding two breaker handles together is not going to work. You can manually flip the two breakers off in this manner, but when a breaker trips is does not make a full draw on the switch.  It only clicks back about half the amount of draw you’d need to fully deenergize a breaker.  This will have the second breaker still energized and it’s handle will simply be in the almost off position.  Only use breakers with common trip.  These breakers not only have the handles bonded, but the entire housing is bonded as well, and they have internal devices that ensure that both legs get tripped simultaneously.  They are not simply 2 breakers stuck together, there’s more to it than that.

[wbarber69]

For what it’s worth, I would not recommend putting anything like a smart plug on a critical appliance.  You can monitor the power draw in other ways.  But that said, I can shed some light onto why you may have issues woth some devices coming back on and some not.  I got to witness these issues first hand after hurricane ida.  We were on generator power for 19 days.  In that time I had multiple instances where power would dip, surge, or simply just shut off from fuel issues to over working the generator.  In many cases I saw what you are referring to. For me it was appliances that were actively running during the outage.  Those devices would be the ones to lock themselves out.  But it had more to do with intermittent power failures.  Quick on off on situations or brown outs, etc.  what I see happening is that the switch doesn’t like the rapidly ch aging state so it kinda puts itself into a safe mode.  I actually find this behavior to be desirable.  As I’d rather walk into a hot living room than have my $800 window unit blow up from constant power issues.  Other than that, I can’t complain about these little plugs.  They have a high tolerance for amp draw u like many other products on the market.  I even have one attached to my 1800w air fryer.   But, like I said, putting these things on your refrigerator or freezer is just asking for problems.  Just. A couple months ago the emporia cloud was acting all weird and I had all kinds of issues with that and my HomeAssistant trying to play well together.

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