Keith, It is pretty standard these days for these Internet Of Things AKA Cloud devices to encrypt the traffic they are sending to the mothership.
Why don't you bring your Vue to the clinic and have Russell flash it for you? The process really does not seem that difficult at all according to this overview: https://fuzznotes.com/posts/flash-emporia-vue-3-with-esphome/ Very similar in fact to reflashing the Cisco MR-52 If soldering to it scares you then use a pogo pin clip: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805646654844.html This is discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/18wgod1/home_energy_monitori ng_emporia_vue_without/ Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2026 1:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] tracing/intercepting Emporia Vue packets: Discuss at clinic, or list? On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:19:13AM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > On 1/8/26 20:04, Russell Senior wrote: > > 721 NW Ninth Ave Portland, Oregon 97209 > >When: Sunday, January 18, 2025, 1pm-5pm I don't have any portable hardware ready to update/upgrade. I do have a stock Emporia Vue wired into my load center, and ready to connect through my internal network, through my firewall, to the internet, to Emporia. But ... My long term goal is to intercept Emporia-bound packets at my firewall, and redirect them to my own internal data logging, parsing, and interpretive scripts. In the short term, let the Vue talk to Emporia through the firewall, log the packets as they go outbound through the firewall, and capture them as go by ... with tcpdump? ---- If someone at clinic can offer sage advice, with plenty of diagrams and notes and talking slow and interruptably so that my partly dear ears can parse them, I'll show up at clinic. Otherwise, I may pester the entire PLUG list for a week, with too many dumb questions and incorrect hypotheses. Then release V0.1 "code" that makes hand-grenade-cooked spaghetti look organized. It's late. I will read myself to sleep with the tcpdump man page. If going to Clinic will help (or if I can help others), let me know in time to "Trimet" from Beaverton to the clinic before start time, so I can get in without lock-picking. Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
