dmtalon

Wow, will be checking this out for sure! I'd love to dump life360 completely if possible

I reached out to my congresswoman who would be voting for whoever is running and asked her to not vote in more of the same old problem. I cannot do it for the Senate since my my senator is republican.

I believe this is it: https://emporia-vue-local.github.io/docs/tutorial/intro/

It's been a little while but I did follow a guide for the emporia vue.

There are newer versions and other similar brands out there if I find the guide I used it will be fairly specific to this hardware (certainly the base code setup)

I will look tomorrow

I have two 150a panels in my house and I have 2 emporia vue 2's one on each panel. I reflashed them with esphome so I own the data, it's not going out to emporia. but they work as individual devices collecting data from the clamps.

For non 240 loads you could also use smart plug with power consumption if you're just wanting to track that device. In my use case I am capturing all usage from the two big clamp at the top of each panel then each clamps usage which gives me an 'untracked' value also since I have more than 16 circuits in each panel I cannot track every circuit.

The CT clamp reads the current without having to be directly connected to the wire. It just 'clamps' onto the leg and is non invasive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_clamp

Here's one of my panels with the clamps on. The top clamps read total power, the individual clamps below are reading one leg each. for a 240v you need both since each leg is only supplying 120. My dryer also sometimes only uses 120v when it's not actively heating.

I have a couple emporia vue (2's) and for my electric clothes dryer I just use a CT clamp on each leg and sum them.

Within the vue esphome config:

 # Combined Dryer Sensor
  - platform: template
    name: "Total Clothes Dryer Power"
    id: total_dryer_power
    lambda: return id(cir9).state + id(cir12).state;
    update_interval: never
    device_class: power
    state_class: measurement
    unit_of_measurement: "W"
    filters: *throttle_avg

I paid $99 for one on 10/25/25 from microcenter

There is a community here, maybe I need to try to get people engaging in it, starting a game thread etc...

Actually, in my case reddit forced me to obtain answers without visiting the site because it is hostile to me... I'm clearly in the minority along with you all :). But, while I'd love the real users there to move here, reddit the company can rot.

Making me log in, to view anything will just further remove my eyes from anything created there. I only visited a couple subreddits (primarily my local soccer team's game thread) to view the comments. Since I deleted my account 3 years ago I guess I'm going to miss out on that.

I'm tired of winning boss

Hrm... Hadn't seen it will check it out