Pro 3EM-400 Energy Meter

The 400 A version of Shelly's three-phase switchboard meter. Its clamps open to 35 mm, so they reach around mains tails a 120 A clamp cannot.

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Everything you need to know

The same three-phase DIN rail meter as the standard Pro 3EM, with a current range built for a heavy supply. It takes CT 400A clamps, reads to 400 A per phase and holds at least 60 days of one-minute data on the device. Like the rest of the line it measures without switching: contactor control is the Pro 3EM Switch Add-on.

Product features

Built for the incomer, not the circuit

The CT 400A opens to 35 mm against the 15 mm of the standard clamp, so it closes around mains tails rather than individual circuits. That is what puts this meter on a large home with a heavy supply, a farm shed or a small commercial board.

  • Reads to 400 A per phase
  • 35 mm clamp opening
  • One clamp per phase, plus an optional fourth on the neutral

Accurate where the load is

It holds within 1% from 5 A right up to 400 A, and within 2% below that. On a supply this size the lower band is worth knowing: a 400 A meter is the right tool for watching a whole switchboard and the wrong one for chasing a small standby load.

  • Within 1% from 5 A to 400 A
  • Within 2% below 5 A
  • Four-quadrant, so export is measured too

Your history stays on the device

It keeps at least 60 days of readings at one-minute intervals in its own memory, on the meter rather than on a server somewhere. The detail is still there after an internet outage, and you can pull it out as CSV or JSON without a cloud account.

  • At least 60 days of one-minute readings, stored on the meter
  • No cloud account needed to keep them
  • Export as CSV or JSON

Wired into your network

An RJ45 port puts it on the network by cable, which is the dependable option inside a metal switchboard. Wi-Fi is the fallback, and it speaks MQTT, HTTP and WebSocket over TLS, so it fits into Home Assistant and anything else you run locally.

  • Ethernet, with Wi-Fi as backup
  • MQTT, HTTP and WebSocket, all over TLS
  • Works locally, with or without the cloud

What is a Shelly energy meter?

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Split-core current clamps closed around the cables in a switchboard, beside a Shelly energy meter on the DIN rail

A Shelly energy meter measures the power a circuit is using. It shows how much that circuit is using right now, keeps a running total of how much it has used over time, and stores one-minute records on the meter itself. It does not turn anything on or off, so every switch and appliance on the circuit works exactly as it did before the meter went in. You see the numbers in the Shelly app, or in Home Assistant through its Shelly integration, with no Shelly account in the middle.

A Home Assistant dashboard showing the home's live power use in watts alongside its rooms, lights and devices
Power usage

See where the power goes

Clamp the mains where they land in the switchboard and you see what the whole house is using, right now and over time. Put a meter on a single circuit, like the hot water or the air conditioner, and you see what that one thing costs to run.

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Automations

Switch a load off when it runs high

An automation can run when a circuit climbs past a figure you set, like turning a heater off during a high tariff window. The meter supplies the reading, and a relay or a contactor does the switching. The EM Gen3 and Pro EM-50 have a built-in output for driving a contactor.

Solar panels across the tiled roof of a house on a sunny day
Solar

Import and generation, separately

One channel on the mains and one on the solar circuit gives you what you imported and what your roof made, as two separate numbers. A single channel nets them together and hides both. The clamp reads the current in the cable, so the meter works the same whoever made the panels or the inverter.

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Alerts

Know when something finishes or fails

When a circuit drops to nothing, whatever was running has finished, so an automation can tell you the washing machine is done. An old fridge or a pool pump drawing more than it used to is often the first sign it needs a service.

Getting started
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Start with what you want to know Start here

One appliance, or the whole house? A single circuit you can reach in the wall is an EM Mini Gen4 job. The EM Gen3 clamps up to two circuits, or the mains of a single phase house. For something more substantial that lives in your switchboard, look at the Pro range, which clips onto the DIN rail.

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Add more as you go Then

Each meter works independently, so you can start with a single circuit and add more as you need them. They don't need to match: mix models and generations, and they sit side by side in the Shelly app or Home Assistant.

What's in the box

1× Shelly Pro 3EM-400 energy meter
Three phase, DIN rail mount
3× 400 A current transformer clamp
One per phase. A neutral clamp is optional and not included

Works with

Also works with
  • Pairs with Amazon Alexa
  • Pairs with Google Home
  • Pairs with Home Assistant
  • Pairs with SmartThings
Connects over
On Wi-Fi or Ethernet

Joins your home network, so you control it from the app with no hub or bridge.

  • Ethernet
  • Wi-Fi
Set up over Bluetooth

Used once, to get it onto your Wi-Fi.

  • Bluetooth

Works offline

Keeps working on your home network when the internet is down.

Scripts

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Give it jobs the app can't

Scripts add jobs the meter can't do with the Shelly app's schedules and actions alone, like acting on the weather forecast or sending an alert to your phone. Each one is a small program that runs on the meter itself: copy it, paste it into the device's script editor and press Start. It doesn't need a hub, a cloud account or a subscription.

Scripts are free; installing one takes about two minutes.

Specifications

Power
Power
Hardwired
Standby power
< 3 W
Metering
Phases
Single-phaseThree-phase
Channels
3 channels
Measured by
CT clamp
Max current per circuit
400 A Also available: 63 amps · 120 amps
CT opening
35 mm
CT clamps included
Yes
Accuracy (±)
1 %
Solar export metering
Yes
Data
On-device history
60 days
Electrical
Relay output
No
Build
Form
DIN-rail
Housing material
Plastic
Wi-Fi
Standard
802.11 b/g/n
Range (indoors)
30 metres
Bluetooth
Version
4.2
Range (indoors)
10 metres
Environment
Operating temperature
-20–40 °C
Operating humidity
30–70 % RH
Max altitude
2000 metres
Identifiers
SKU
SHE-SNS-0012

Common questions

Quick answers before you buy. We test this gear ourselves. Can't find yours? Ask our Melbourne team

When the conductor is too thick for a 120 A clamp, or the circuit draws more than 120 A. The CT 400A opens to 35 mm against the CT 120A's 15 mm.

Within 1% from 5 A to 400 A, and within 2% below 5 A. On a supply this size, small standby loads sit in that lower band.

In the switchboard, on the DIN rail. It's licensed-electrician work in Australia.

Not on its own. There's no relay inside it. The Pro 3EM Switch Add-on gives it one output, and that output drives a contactor coil rather than carrying the load.

No. It runs on your own network, stores its own history and speaks MQTT, HTTP and WebSocket locally.

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