[yort5thor]

This seems to be the place to add my +1, although my situation is slightly different. I currently have a Main panel outside, then a sub-panel in the house for everything there, and another sub-panel in the garage for the car charger, heat pump, and various lights/plugs. Both the garage sub-panel and the house sub-panel have a full Vue2 set up (200A CTs measuring total in/out, 50A CTs on individual circuits)

I would love to be able to group the House and the Garage under a top-level category, so that I don’t have to mentally add the two numbers together every time I want to know what my total usage is. I have zero interest in buying any more hardware and mucking up the main outdoor panel just to get those two numbers added together.

Otherwise, everything is great – having the Emporia has not only helped me understand my energy usage better, but it helped me identify that the solar installers had mis-configured the Enphase equipment (twice!).

[yort5thor]

I just finally installed my Emporia monitoring system before the new year kicked in, which includes 4 of the Smart Plugs. The main thing I was intending to use a Smart Plug for was for the small electric heater in the basement that my son uses to keep warm in the winter when he’s down there playing Minecraft. In particular, I also wanted to make use of the “scheduling” features so that I could have the plug automatically turn off every night, just in case he forgets to turn off the heater itself.

However, I woke up this morning to a notice that the plug was turned off because of drawing too much energy, so it may not work for my purposes?

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