After watching this I ordered and received my Emporium Vue today. Truly appreciate your tutorial on how to integrate it with Home Assistant. Can't wait to get started. 👍😎
This was great! I don't have any whole house (Apartment...) monitoring, but I've been looking for a howto on how to use the smart plugs I already own that can report power use. Thanks!
Hello. I'm new in home assistant. Your video help me to understand this new world ;-) I have a question, do you have a solution to add light to the energy monitor. An example is to add a Yeelight lamp. The idea is to check when it is turned on or off and calculate from the consumption of this type of light. We know that it is 8.5 Watt when it is on and 1.5W when it is off. Can be cool to monitor and to add the price too. Like is it will be possible to know every month what is the cost of any lamp in our home. Thanks
I think there is a "virtual energy monitor" plugin in the HACS store (if you don't have this installed you can watch my video on it). It will allow you to add an object like a light and then define the on power consumption.
Hello! I absolutely love this video - helped me from A-Z to get it installed. One question: Do you have additional Empporia Smart Plugs as well? I can't see them in my Home assistant and can't find a way to get them in there to monitor them as well. They show up in my emporia app, but not in Homeassistant. Thank you so much!
I do not have any of their smart plugs. I have a ton of other ones (Z-wave, Zigbee, Tuya, etc). Looking through @magico13 's documentation it looks like they don't explicitly say it supports the plugs. But the underlying Python project does. You might want to raise an issue in GitHub and see if they have any ideas.
@@ThisSmartHouse I have them working and can confirm that they are showing up and reporting exactly like the other sensors from Emporia. I added them to the app and simply restarted Homeassistant. (Can be so easy lol) Then you can select them like the other sensors. Only have to figure out how to have them deducted from the area where they are nested under.
Oh awesome. I saw your comment earlier in the week, just didn't have time to reply. That is why I had to build my own charts to show room power (at the end of the video). I hope HA lets us assign consumers to a room.
@@ThisSmartHouse I want to type in values, since I cannot access the meter in anyway and it's also outside of a multistory apartment building. I can't figure out how to create a source that energy monitoring will accept. The ideal scenario would be to just punch in the meter reading occasionally either in manual input or in CSV file and for it to be reflected/ calculated by Energy Monitoring.
This is a really useful video. Thanks. I am having a problem with my setup though. I am getting readings for the first hour of the day that are way too big. I am tracking the power on 4 AC units that never report more than 2.5KW of power draw but in the first hour of the day, they can report 26kWh or more of usage. I get other readings like that but less extreme through the day. I can see the right data when I graph the 1-minute sensor in a Home Assistant dashboard. That data is matching the Emporia. When I make a graph of the 1D data, I have noticed that the 1D value doesn't reset exactly at midnight. They are resetting up to an hour after midnight. One at 00:08, one as late as 01:16. Is there anything I can do to straighten out the 1D data coming from Emporia so the Energy Dashboard plays ball?
@@ThisSmartHouse Hi there. Thanks for getting back to me. I am not sure how I can see when Emporia is doing to the 1D figure over time, or at least at that period going from one day to the next... :/ What is see in HA is that the last reading I get before the value resets for the next day is always coming after midnight. Then HA is using that as the first reading for the next day, (ie the total amount for the day before). FWIW I wondered if the systems might disagree on timezone but I checked and they agree on the current time... Any suggestions much appreciated.
Looks like you are not the only one: github.com/magico13/ha-emporia-vue/issues It looks like the API is sending some bad data. The dev has been super responsive if you read through the issues.
Mine is stuck at download and the wheel keeps spinning for emporia vue. It doesnt say install anywhere so I am guessing the rep got updated to say download. Can you please help? I have successfully added HACS, Emporia custom repo and just trying to install it before going to addon in the main ui. Sorry new to HA. Thanks
The Emporia System could be really great. But having to send all my most private date to thier cloud is simply a no go. I wished they would 1. provide a native HA integration and 2. send the data directly via the local network to Home Assistant.
Depending on how it is calculated, if it is the first day of the month, then the daily KWH is populated each hour. Then the monthly is populated after the end of the first day. It is just noise that goes away after you set up the system.
After watching this I ordered and received my Emporium Vue today.
Truly appreciate your tutorial on how to integrate it with Home Assistant. Can't wait to get started. 👍😎
Awesome! I just added another 8 sensors and I wish I could add more!
Awesome series. I would love to see a follow up video, on how you (if you do) configure pricing per peak and off peak hours.
Manual, integration, etc.
2024 - how's the setup?
Looking into energy home monitoring and do what you did with HA
Awesome video like always!!!
You're the best!
Looks interesting. I will have to ask a few questions on the first video about doing energy monitoring.
Go for it! I think you joined the discord, probably the best place to ask questions.
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Thank you!
This was great! I don't have any whole house (Apartment...) monitoring, but I've been looking for a howto on how to use the smart plugs I already own that can report power use. Thanks!
You are so welcome!
great video, question regarding the apex chart, do you know how to not show the legend on the bottom of the pie chart?
Try one of the legend booleans: github.com/RomRider/apexcharts-card#series-show-options
How is entering cost useful, if you can't specify the billing start and end dates?
It will let you see cost per day or month. You could easily calculate your bill from that and a template sensor.
Hello. I'm new in home assistant. Your video help me to understand this new world ;-) I have a question, do you have a solution to add light to the energy monitor. An example is to add a Yeelight lamp. The idea is to check when it is turned on or off and calculate from the consumption of this type of light. We know that it is 8.5 Watt when it is on and 1.5W when it is off. Can be cool to monitor and to add the price too. Like is it will be possible to know every month what is the cost of any lamp in our home. Thanks
I think there is a "virtual energy monitor" plugin in the HACS store (if you don't have this installed you can watch my video on it). It will allow you to add an object like a light and then define the on power consumption.
This is it I think: community.home-assistant.io/t/powercalc-virtual-power-sensors/318515
@@ThisSmartHouse thanks for your fast answer. I have HACS but I don't found any Integration with this name :-(
The name is "Power Calc". According to the GitHub it's part of the default hacs store.
@@ThisSmartHouse Thanks, I'll try it
What are you using to measure your gas consumption, I cant seem to find a smart sensor for the US meters
I am using an SDR (software defined radio) using MeterMon. See my video on it here: ruclips.net/video/xOgEjd_2hnA/видео.html
Hello! I absolutely love this video - helped me from A-Z to get it installed. One question: Do you have additional Empporia Smart Plugs as well? I can't see them in my Home assistant and can't find a way to get them in there to monitor them as well. They show up in my emporia app, but not in Homeassistant. Thank you so much!
I do not have any of their smart plugs. I have a ton of other ones (Z-wave, Zigbee, Tuya, etc). Looking through @magico13 's documentation it looks like they don't explicitly say it supports the plugs. But the underlying Python project does. You might want to raise an issue in GitHub and see if they have any ideas.
@@ThisSmartHouse I have them working and can confirm that they are showing up and reporting exactly like the other sensors from Emporia. I added them to the app and simply restarted Homeassistant. (Can be so easy lol) Then you can select them like the other sensors. Only have to figure out how to have them deducted from the area where they are nested under.
Oh awesome. I saw your comment earlier in the week, just didn't have time to reply. That is why I had to build my own charts to show room power (at the end of the video). I hope HA lets us assign consumers to a room.
Great video. I would love to see how one can add manual input energy/gas meter.
What do you mean by manual input? Like you are updating a sensor from somewhere else, or you want to type in the values?
@@ThisSmartHouse I want to type in values, since I cannot access the meter in anyway and it's also outside of a multistory apartment building.
I can't figure out how to create a source that energy monitoring will accept. The ideal scenario would be to just punch in the meter reading occasionally either in manual input or in CSV file and for it to be reflected/ calculated by Energy Monitoring.
This is a really useful video. Thanks.
I am having a problem with my setup though. I am getting readings for the first hour of the day that are way too big. I am tracking the power on 4 AC units that never report more than 2.5KW of power draw but in the first hour of the day, they can report 26kWh or more of usage.
I get other readings like that but less extreme through the day.
I can see the right data when I graph the 1-minute sensor in a Home Assistant dashboard. That data is matching the Emporia.
When I make a graph of the 1D data, I have noticed that the 1D value doesn't reset exactly at midnight. They are resetting up to an hour after midnight. One at 00:08, one as late as 01:16.
Is there anything I can do to straighten out the 1D data coming from Emporia so the Energy Dashboard plays ball?
So you are getting bad data in the Emporia app AND Home assistant?
@@ThisSmartHouse Hi there. Thanks for getting back to me.
I am not sure how I can see when Emporia is doing to the 1D figure over time, or at least at that period going from one day to the next... :/
What is see in HA is that the last reading I get before the value resets for the next day is always coming after midnight. Then HA is using that as the first reading for the next day, (ie the total amount for the day before). FWIW I wondered if the systems might disagree on timezone but I checked and they agree on the current time...
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Looks like you are not the only one: github.com/magico13/ha-emporia-vue/issues
It looks like the API is sending some bad data. The dev has been super responsive if you read through the issues.
@@ThisSmartHouse Many thanks. I have added a note to an existing thread. Hopefully he responds soon. :)
Yeah. Hopefully they can work out the issues soon. I haven't really looked at my dashboard so I am sure I am having the same problems.
Great vid. I literally just ordered emporia today, cant wait to receive it and follow your install / dashboard
Awesome! Hope you like it! Let me know if you have any questions. I need to install the rest of my sensors in the coming weeks.
Where is the file "sensors.yaml" ? I can't find it even with the search. Looks like in my version of HA, there is no such a file. Thank you.
If you don't already have the file then you'll need to create it and then create the reference in your configuration.yaml.
How do you add the Riemann Sum integration?
Are you the same person that asked in the discord?
@@ThisSmartHouse yes. Thanks man. I got it working now.
Awesome! I have no idea why they called it the integration, integration.
Mine is stuck at download and the wheel keeps spinning for emporia vue. It doesnt say install anywhere so I am guessing the rep got updated to say download. Can you please help? I have successfully added HACS, Emporia custom repo and just trying to install it before going to addon in the main ui. Sorry new to HA. Thanks
So you have the custom integration installed but can't connect to the emporia?
The Emporia System could be really great. But having to send all my most private date to thier cloud is simply a no go. I wished they would 1. provide a native HA integration and 2. send the data directly via the local network to Home Assistant.
I understand your concerns. You might want to express those directly to the company they seem pretty responsive.
Doing this today.
Nice, let me know if you get stuck somewhere.
how can the KWH for the month be less then the KWH of the day?
Depending on how it is calculated, if it is the first day of the month, then the daily KWH is populated each hour. Then the monthly is populated after the end of the first day. It is just noise that goes away after you set up the system.
@@ThisSmartHouse that makes sense. Tx
hacs link ?????
To the installer or the instruction video?