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jrouvier / esphome-emporia-vue-utility

Alternative ESPHome firmware for the Emporia Vue Utility Connect
GNU General Public License v2.0
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a little information please #13

Open Roguish000 opened 1 year ago

Roguish000 commented 1 year ago

Sir, very interesting code. I have a Vue, and want to monitor my PG&E meter without going through the Emporia cloud. I am not a programmer by trade, but can hack a bit. Looks like your code reads the Vue wifi signal. Is that correct? Does the Vue have to be 'connected' to Emporia to broadcast it's signal and meter information? Quite curious here. I look forward to your reply. Thanks.

kilbyjmichael commented 1 year ago

The code reads the serial data between the zigbee chip (the one that reads the meter) and the ESP32. This is esphome firmware which connects to many different services, commonly homeassistant.