EmonLIB external ADC reference

Hardware
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Hi,
I am using EmonLib to monitor the AC input voltage, my input voltage sensor is designed the way described in openenergymonitor with peak value of 2.49V.

Currently the analog read reference voltage is the default one which as I know is not quite stable, especially when the board is powered by laptop USB port.

I have connected external votlage refference of 3V3 volts, and in the setup function of the code i use analogReference (EXTERNAL). This does not helped at all. Then I modified the following piece of the .cpp file in emonLib

long EnergyMonitor::readVcc() {
  long result;

  //not used on emonTx V3 - as Vcc is always 3.3V - eliminates bandgap error and need for calibration http://harizanov.com/2013/09/thoughts-on-avr-adc-accuracy/

  #if defined(__AVR_ATmega168__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega328__) || defined (__AVR_ATmega328P__)
  ADMUX = _BV(REFS0) | _BV(MUX3) | _BV(MUX2) | _BV(MUX1);
  #elif defined(__AVR_ATmega644__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega644P__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega1284__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega1284P__)
  ADMUX = _BV(REFS0) | _BV(MUX4) | _BV(MUX3) | _BV(MUX2) | _BV(MUX1);
  #elif defined(__AVR_ATmega32U4__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega1280__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega2560__) || defined(__AVR_AT90USB1286__)
  ADMUX = _BV(REFS0) | _BV(MUX4) | _BV(MUX3) | _BV(MUX2) | _BV(MUX1);
  ADCSRB &= ~_BV(MUX5);   // Without this the function always returns -1 on the ATmega2560 http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/2253#comment-11432
  #elif defined (__AVR_ATtiny24__) || defined(__AVR_ATtiny44__) || defined(__AVR_ATtiny84__)
  ADMUX = _BV(MUX5) | _BV(MUX0);
  #elif defined (__AVR_ATtiny25__) || defined(__AVR_ATtiny45__) || defined(__AVR_ATtiny85__)
  ADMUX = _BV(MUX3) | _BV(MUX2);

  #endif

to the following:

long EnergyMonitor::readVcc() {
  long result;

  // Set the reference voltage to EXTERNAL
  analogReference(EXTERNAL);


}

This approach also does not work.

Anyone who has tried to improve the stability of the EmonLib using external ADC reference and the library????

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At a first glance it seems I need to modify the register readVcc() pointing to the external reference
(Arduino nano in my case)

long EnergyMonitor::readVcc() {
  long result;

  //not used on emonTx V3 - as Vcc is always 3.3V - eliminates bandgap error and need for calibration http://harizanov.com/2013/09/thoughts-on-avr-adc-accuracy/

  #if defined(__AVR_ATmega168__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega328__) || defined (__AVR_ATmega328P__)
  ADMUX = _BV(REFS0) | _BV(MUX3) | _BV(MUX2) | _BV(MUX1);
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