Emporia users, is your system down right now ?
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2TrevorJ
Bend the Joules
Same
B-Mod
Solar Enthusiast
Yup, but I have a smart plug that is showing a value, same account.
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BentleyJ
Solar Wizard
Ya, still down.
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
According to their FAQ there is no way to access the data locally - perhaps custom firmware would allow it.
I just got 2 of them myself only to experience this outage on the very first day. And yeah mine just started working properly as well after an apparent 12-14 hour outage on their end. Hopefully just bad luck and not something that happens very often...
I have iotawatt but the basically stopped making it. I was excited to get a vue for a second panel. Now not so much.
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
Yeah as long as an outage like this is actually rare it's not the end of the world. I'm liking mine so far now that it's working again ?
Ive been using them for a couple years and this is the first long outage I have noticed
There is a MQTT solution that doesn't require updated firmware, although if you are willing to do some soldering and flash it you have more options. https://flaviutamas.com/2021/reversing-emporia-vue-2
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
Uh oh - here we go again - everything is back to showing all zero values... perhaps these "outages" aren't all that rare - ugh.
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
Actually it seems to be like flickering - all zeroes for a while and then the data comes back - a few minutes later back to all zeroes - then a bit later the data starts coming in again.
Dagoth Ur Does Solar
Solar Enthusiast
Mine seems to have been shitting the bed the past few days. I also had that Saturday night outage where it looked like their API was down.
Honestly getting closer to just cracking it open and doing the reflash, since I feed all this data into my HomeAssistant instance as is. I don't really use the Emporia app at all.
Honestly getting closer to just cracking it open and doing the reflash, since I feed all this data into my HomeAssistant instance as is. I don't really use the Emporia app at all.
Quattrohead
Solar Wizard
I do like their app but only use it very occasionally as I also dump the data into home assistant. It would be really cool if you could attach the direct connect ESP 32 solution on top of the emporia and get the best of both worlds. It's probably only serial data output, right?
Dagoth Ur Does Solar
Solar Enthusiast
As best I can tell from my cursory investigation of it was that the Emporia device is an ESP32 SoC (which are ridiculously common for IoT, if you have IoT devices in your home there's a big chance you have some ESP32 devices)- and that you're simply re-flashing the firmware with ESPhome and then can pass the data from the sensors via MQTT to HomeAssistant or wherever else.
So yeah, as best I can tell you're totally removing the Emporia Vue cloud servers and app functionality, and just using this like a generic device.
You don't need to flash the Emporia to get MQTT data into Home Assistant. https://flaviutamas.com/2021/reversing-emporia-vue-2
He was able to work with the default configuration and change the WiFi and MQTT server info.
He was able to work with the default configuration and change the WiFi and MQTT server info.
