Emporia Vue: Utility Connect for Select Markets

Love this product and it does what it supposed to do, get real-time readings from the utility smart meter. The web and app show energy consumption hourly, daily, weekly, and so on. As a bonus, it also integrates with Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi.

Easy peasy energy monitor to connect to the site utility meter if the local wire provider is onboard with allowing that connectivity to happen. Looking forward to using this energy monitor anywhere in Canada as the Smart Meter deployment penetration reaches 100% in the next 5-10 years.

We are enjoying the insights of having the Vue along with a few specific smart plugs to monitor usage of specific electronics.
The integration with our electric company allows us to see cost as well as insights into solar (at least a little).

Device provides a great deal of almost real-time data useful for optimizing consumption

Useful remote energy monitoring that allows me to make decisions/take action about remote charging /discharging of batteries for home energy. I have a large photovoltaic system that can charge batteries during the day depending on weather/cloud cover.

This unit gives you all the usage information you could possibly use for $40! I can monitor my solar panels output and see the net gains for the minute, hour, day or month, even longer. It's much faster than my solar panels monitor app and is much more flexible. I can see my usage at any time. I highly recommend it.

Great little device. Easy to setup with our electrical supplier, and real time monitoring

Great product. I love that they leave it hackable, as it makes me much more likely to purchase Emporia products since I get good quality electronics without giving up local control.

Wasn't able to make it work. Despite following the instructions, all the lights blinking as should etc.

Because the way my solar, home batteries and EV charger are wired my inverter cannot see the power used by my Emporia EV charger or when my utility is pulling power from my batteries as part of their VPP. This configuration would not allow for the typical wired Vue to be able to monitor in my electric panel. Luckily my utility has compatible smart meters and was able to allow my Vue Utility Connect to monitor what is being imported and exported. I use the Vue Utility Connect along with smart plugs for specific devices to monitor my energy usage (works great for everything but 240v equipment). It is unfortunate that the Vue Utility Connect does not work with Solar Only charging however (I suspect there is too much of a lag between the monitor and charger for it to work properly).

Handy device. Easy to monitor your our energy use.

Seamless setup, incredibly accurate real-time data!

I bought an Emporia Vue because it was recommended for use with Home Assistant. Flashing custom firmware was easy even with my novice-level soldering skills. Pairing it with my PG&E electric meter required a phone call but they were very friendly about it and it only took a few minutes

The only problem I had was that the USB power supply that came with it failed after about a week, but an old USB phone charger from my junk drawer works fine as a replacement.

Can’t get it provisioned

Simple to install and setup. Great app

Works great with comed in Illinois

It works exactly as needed. It shows all the usage of electricity to and from the grid. The time and amount precision is excellent. It requires calling PGE to set up the active monitoring but the PGE representative was excellent.

Wow! Excellent product. I wish I would have gone with this solution sooner. Coming from the "other" guys solution that was 2x the price and never reliably worked, I'm super happy with this one and would say its the only way to go!

Cabt get it set up. No real help.

The device was easy to connect, especially to the app, compared to a previous device I bought years ago. The app is spectacular, but I don’t have anything current to compare it to.

Very good device to manage power, took some getting used to the app, wish I could set a home view.

Works as advertised

Excellent little device and app. I now get a clear picture of how much energy is being consumed, how much of the solar panels production is being consumed, and how much is being sent to the grid. This happens hour by hour, day by day. It's an excellent device.

So far, so good. Getting it to communicate with meter wasn't as straightforward as I hoped but that's our utility. Once connected, working as advertised.

Simple Install works great!

It just works... Unlike the Rainforest Eagle 3.

The app could use some tweaking, but still pretty good.

This little device works amazingly well. It gives fast, highly accurate, near-real-time data for my entire home's energy usage right from the smart meter. Setup was quick, connection is solid, and the app handles the data beautifully. Love it—worth every penny!

Great device, it was easy to set up and has been very reliable and working well. The app is clear and easy to navigate. I find I use it more than my solar company app tbh. I highly recommend it to anybody that has a compatible meter and wants to keep tabs on elec usage

Great item

I think it would be better if the data could be accessed directly rather than going through the cloud. Also the live data and the historical data are sometimes out of sync because of the sample rate.

Works well