more code help needed.

[jacksnodgrass]

I want to minimize my access to the EmporiaVue mothership. I have 16 or circuits that I monitor with my EmporiaVue but for most of my API stuff, I only care about:
Main 1,2,3 - Net Usage
and
one of my circuits that I call Solar Battery.
I don't care about the other 15 circuits I monitor.

I do:

now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-5))) # This is my timezone, yours may vary
usageDict = vue.get_device_list_usage(device_gids, now, Scale.SECOND.value, Unit.KWH.value)
for (gid, usageDevice) in usageDict.items():
    for (channelNum, usageChannel) in usageDevice.channels.items():
        process the data and print out the results. 

and that gets data for ALL of my 16 circuits. Is there a way to JUST get data for 2 things?
Main (a.k.a. Net Usage)
Solar Battery
in order to get less data from the API.

or should I not worry about the extra data?

I want to pull this data ( Main and Solar Battery ) every couple of minutes. I have stuff that I need to turn on and off based on the values from Main and Solar Battery.

[magico13]

If you're sending just the one device gid then it's easiest to just ignore the channels you don't care about. The only other thing I can think of would be two separate calls for the history of each of the channels you care about.

[buelowp]

The public API doesn't seem to support what you want to do, but honestly, the data doesn't cost anything, so just return when you're done and move on. I do this in a small python app to send out MQTT messages which ignores a lot of the channels in favor of some bigger data about the panels themselves plus one or two circuits.

Kinda not what you were looking for, but the emporia API that I can find doesn't support what you want to do, so making the pyemvue API do it may be counterproductive.