wise vapor
I've been wanting some kind of whole-house power monitoring thing through home assistant for a while. We have a clamp on our power coming in that used to talk to a display inside but that hasn't worked in about 2 decades.
I've seen loads of people suggesting different pre-made solutions but they all seem expensive and I'm not sure if they would work in the UK (where we have 230V at 50Hz).
Is there anyone in the UK who has a CT Clamp to monitor power? I already have voltage collected from multiple smart plugs and my UPS (then averaged to a "home voltage" helper entity), but if I had whole-house current it would help with finding what uses the most power (probably the shower lol, but it would be nice to know how much that thing uses).
I'm not too bothered about individually tracking each circuit, and logistically that would be a nightmare fitting clamps to every other wire in the tiny consumer unit box, so something like the emporia vue seems a bit overkill unless I can get the box and one or two sensors, instead of 8 or 16...
I'm not opposed to buying a clamp off Amazon or AliExpress and an ESP32 btw, that would probably be more fun than just buying an off the shelf solution for 5x the price.
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