Anyone have a particular Home Energy Monitor that they like over another brand? I'm thinking if you don't get something good, it could just be a waste of money.

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 11/28/22 at 12:47 am to RainGame

I chose IoTaWatt and I like it. I haven't tried any others to know how they compare. I chose it because it is an open platform that does not rely on any cloud services. It doesn't do anything fancy like machine learning your appliances or anything like that, so if you want that you have to wire it up yourself. What it does do is monitor your power consumption in real time (on up to 14 circuits individually) and gives you local access to that raw data. You can pipe that data to home assistant or one or more of several cloud based database services under your control. How deep you want to go is up to you.

I realize this choice is not for everyone.

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Posted by dakarx

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Posted on 11/28/22 at 6:53 am to Korkstand

Using the Emporia modules here, have one in each panel. Dead simple to set up and does a good job, right now they are using cloud based storage, but need to take the time to integrate it into my Home Assistant.

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 11/28/22 at 8:51 am to dakarx

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Emporia

Can you flash the firmware on those?

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Posted by dakarx

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Posted on 11/28/22 at 12:29 pm to Korkstand

Have't tried, but i did open one up to see what was in there last year. Just an ESP32, power regulation, and inputs for the 16 current sensors.

So could it be reflashed with different firmware? Of course, looks they were even kind enough to break out the serial port for me :) Didn't look very hard to see if OTA updating is currently supported.