Vue 3 Home Energy Monitor - Smart Home Automation Module and Real Time Electricity Usage Monitor, Power Consumption Meter, Solar and Net Metering for UL Certified Safe Energy Monitoring

7/26/24 update: This is still going strong with zero issues. I see some low reviews about signal but we ran the antenna outside of the panel and have zero issues. This has really helped provide granularity in our energy use. I saw today they annouced a fix for my complaint around my solar CT reporting production at night when my combiner box was consuming. now you can specify in the app if a CT is bi-directional. Lastly, we were able to use the info provided by the monitoring to decide to get rid of our electric dryer and switch to a combination heat pump washer/dryer. We were spending $50+ in electricity a month to wash clothes. Now we don't even spend $15.00. At current prices the new washer will pay for itself in 3.5 years. I know all this because of the granular detail provided through the vue3. We're going to deploy these at any of our rentals that include utilities in the rent. Original review: This is a great product using tried and try technology (CT monitors). I have plenty of space in my panel so installing this was a breeze. My panel is recessed into the wall so I bought a 3rd party antenna extension cable so I could mount my antenna outside the panel. This monitors 220v(use 1 CT and double in app), 110v, solar and you can add external emporia smart plugs to save a CT. So for my dishwasher and server, instead of using a CT, I used their smart plug and was able to add it to the whole house monitoring. This has provided great insight into our energy usage. I like that the cable length can be adjusted to get rid of extra cable length. My main compliant is 16 CT were not enough nearly enough for my 3000 sq ft house with a 200amp panel. I would probably need 2 of these to cover my whole house but I was able to get most of our key loads. My other complaint is that the CT monitor for solar registers regardless of whether it sends back to breaker or uses from breaker. At night, my solar uses some power to control enphase controller and it registers it production instead of consumption. It is minor but something to note.

Incredible product! I don’t write many reviews. I bought this months ago. It works awesome! I had a question and called tech support. Actually spoke with a very nice tech right away. Was surprisingly tech savvy, no stupid ia assistant or long pause pushing zero for representatives. I have Solar and two electrical panels. No room in my outside panel for incoming and outgoing monitoring. So I used 4 sensors on the stuff in the outside panel. 2 heat pumps, pool equipment, and incoming power from my solar array. Worked well. Easily able to set either 220 or 120, incoming solar, and easily able to label each sensor to what is powered. I need more than the 16 sensors! I would like one for each breaker. I have found out how much power my pool cleaner pump takes. It’s ridiculous. I will find a more efficient one soon. 1st pic is the panel, yes going to shorten the wires. No connectivity issues, but I still haven’t replaced the panel… 2nd is instant use… 3rd is daily… 4th is monthly…. 5th yearly, but not a full year The pool equipment is crazy high…. Double checked it. I see how stupid inefficient my cleaner pump is. The normal pump is a variable pump and super efficient. So I can see instantly when pool cleaner comes on a how much it takes. If I didn’t have it, I would reduce my usage dramatically!

This monitor kit has been amazing! High quality, easy to install in Square D panel. No issues connecting to wifi. App is very intuitive and easy to use. Connectivity speed has no issue and seems to be very little lag from energy use to recording in the app. Its Jan 2026 and I installed these in Oct 2025. Great value to hold the energy company accoutable with their new horrible smart meters but also give me an overview of where my power usuage is coming from/

I got this to put on the subpanel in my garage, which is on its own disconnect separate from the rest of my house. On the whole it is OK and I am not sure if there is a better option but it is far from a 5-star product. First the good: This was relatively easy to install and get connected to wifi, seems to work well (ish, see below), and doesn't (yet!) require you to buy some $#@! subscription to use it. For that I am bumping this from 3 to 4 stars. Gripe 1: You should not need to install the app to get to the installation manual. My electrician fussed with it for 5 minutes before I figured out how to access the PDF and sent it to him. Since many (most?) users will have an electrician do the behind-the-panel work, the PDF should be directly accessible. Gripe 2: My energy balance isn't quite right. I installed this in my garage where the vast majority of the power consumption is from the heat pump, and the app is generally showing the heat pump using 110-120% of the power used by the whole garage. Comparing this to my electrical meter it seems to be matching up within the margin of error, at least. There may be some further adjustment or calibration to get this to work better, but something is clearly off and it's not obvious what. Gripe 3: My biggest complaint though is the app, which has some missing functionality and weird UX behavior. It seems reasonably stable and performant, so it's not awful. But for a device you buy explicitly for monitoring and performance, the reporting functionality is very rudimentary. You can't select a date/time range to view, it only works in vertical orientation, and scrolling through the data is very clunky. This also seems to support a number of "smart home" type features like time-of-use controls, which do not apply to my use case. It does seem like one of the more feature-rich versions of this kind of thing, so that may weigh in its favor if you are looking for that.

Like amazon, who sets the standard for Mail order shopping and customer service. Emporia’s devices and customer service set the standard for electrical energy monitoring systems. I dont believe I can give a higher compliment than that to either one. Anyone who doesnt believe amazon is the gold standard to which all other mail order need to strive for hasnt much experience with mail order. That said, this review is about emporia’s devices which I use to watch and control my electrical usage at my business and house. Whether you are an electrical engineer (spaceflight controller) who was responsible for monitoring the energy usage on the space shuttle, or a homeowner who cares about their electrical usage, emporia’s devices provide you with the insight you need to understand both the IN and OUT of electrical energy in your electrical systems. Emporia makes installation and set up as simple (and safe) as possible and monitors electrical energy usage (and/or generation) throughout your system. And is the most cost effective system available.. I would know, i built this system 20 years ago when i was a spaceflight controller in the MCC using current transformers, DATAC, and the basic programming in the Excel spreadsheet to collect and display the data. Im retired now and cant build what emporia offers for 1/10 the price. Whereas the information presented by Emporia software plenty sufficient for 99 percent of homeowners, (more than most want) emporia’s data sampling far exceeds what the presently used so future features are merely software away. For those worried about the cost of uploading data amount and cost rest assured, it is almost too small for the router, or phone to measure at a few megabytes per month. Quality? Ive had it operating since April 2024 when i installed my solar and have had no problems and no failures. I have cut open one of the smartplugs and the electronics is typical of most electronic devices. The devices are just too cheap to worry about abuse and repair or insurance. Features? Well the present features and abilities used with there smartplugs far exceed other “home monitoring” systems and threaten industrial systems which cost tens of thousands. I learned in a management class once “you cant manage what you dont know nothing about”, and this emporia system enables you to Know what you are trying to manage. Electrical energy.. which is only going to increase in cost.

My brother installed this at his house and loved it. After seeing his system in action, I bought one for my house. After installing mine, I liked it so much a purchased a second system as I have two independent breaker panels and wanted better monitoring of my whole house electricity use. Do you need to actually see the energy distribution of you home circuits? Probably not. But . . . is it reassuring when away from home to know that your lift pump, well pump, outdoor hot tub, furnace, freezer, refrigerator, etc. are cycling as expected? Most definitely! Installation was easy enough. You need to fully understand the breaker panel and risks involved when working close to hazardous electrical wires. If you've ever added or replaced circuit breakers on your own, the installation is straight forward. The system monitors the two mains coming from the power company and up to 16 individual circuits in the breaker panel. You can monitor a 220v "dual" breaker using two of the 16 sensors (one on each "hot" wire to each half of the breaker), or you can use a single sensor on one side of the breaker and "double" the usage measurement automatically in the app. For an electric HW heater, this makes total sense as the usage is identical for both sides of the breaker. Using only one sensor in this case frees up a sensor to use elsewhere. I bought a 16 sensor and an 8 sensor system. The base station for each is the same, so I can always order another 8 sensors to maximize monitoring. For me, I really only care about the big energy appliances and I do not monitor most of my 15 amp circuits (lighting, stereo/TV etc.) The app automatically sums all circuits per breaker panel and includes the "balance" of non-monitored use as a separate line entry. I can tell how much electricity the entire panel used any given second, hour, day, week, month, and the app sorts usage from highest to lowest. Lastly, I purchased a 4 pack of their "smart plugs" to dial in usage of a few small appliances that are not on an isolated/single breaker. They nest seamlessly into the app and add additional monitoring that I find useful. I never knew how much I would appreciate having this information available at any time and from anywhere on the planet. I doubt I will ever save money using this product, but I will forever enjoy the ability to monitor and measure the electricity usage of my home.

I ordered this to compliment my Sense energy monitor. I’ve been using Sense for several years and while that was great for some things, it didn’t give me enough information on what was actually using power. The Emporia functions differently than Sense, and each have pros and cons. From an installation standpoint, Sense was much easier because it doesn’t need individual circuit sensors. My circuit breaker panel was very crowded to begin with, and it was a challenge to get the 18 CT clamps in place for the Emporia and now my panel looks very messy inside. I get much more accurate readings with the Emporia than I do with Sense. Emporia shows the actual power being consumed by each circuit, where Sense only makes a guess at each detected device. For example, Sense detected my heat pump compressor, but it always uses the same power value when it detects that it turns on so it always reports 3.2kW. With Emporia’s sensor directly at the circuit breaker, I can see that the power ranges between 2.8kW and 4.2kW depending on the outside temperature. During the hot summer months, Sense will drastically under count my heat pump’s consumption. From an app standpoint, I like Sense a lot better. The Emporia app looks very dated in comparison, but it does what it is supposed to I guess. There are some things that I wish it could do, like let you pinch or spread to adjust the graphed data. There are also some things that should be a feature but aren’t for some reason. For example, I can’t set it up to get accurate readings for my clothes dryer in one entry. My dryer uses 240V for the heating element, but it uses a single 120V leg for everything else including the tumbler motor. I have a clamp on each leg so I can see the total power consumed, but it’s in two separate circuits that I have to add together. It should be easy to combine both into one sensor and let the app do the math, but this isn’t an option. On the Emporia forums it seems like this is an common request and Emporia says that it will be implemented “soon”, but they have been saying this for years so “soon” must have another meaning for them. It’s very handy for keeping an eye on malfunctions. I have a septic system that has an always-on aerator pump. When something goes wrong with the system, the pump turns off. I have an alert set up so that I get a notification if the pump stops working so I immediately know if there is a problem. I use Home Assistant at my home, and it was very easy to integrate the Emporia data into it. It works very well. It’s hard for me to say which is better, Sense or Emporia, because each one is so different. Sense is better at displaying real-time information, but Emporia is much more accurate on an individual circuit basis. The Sense app seems to be generations ahead of the Emporia app.

Well designed device! Easy to set up. Web interface is "basic" but you know what? It works perfectly every time you load it. Sensors install easily. Happy with my purchase and already seeing insights in my home. This is a "light industrial" design in my eyes, meaning the terminals and everything allow for easy trimming of sensor wires for a clean install. Well done.