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Readings from smart meters?
nick205 - 24/8/16 at 08:49 AM

Morning all,

I'm in the process of switching gas/electric supplier and have been asked to provide meter readings. We have "smart" meters, which the supplier can obtain readings from remotely, but I'd like to check and make a note of the readings anyway.

Currently the LCD displays on both meters are blank so my question is how do I get readings from them?

Help would be much appreciated thanks!

Nick

nick205 - 24/8/16 at 09:58 AM

OK - some Googling appears to have answered this one - will give it a go tonight and see if it works

Slimy38 - 24/8/16 at 11:50 AM

Erm, you push the green button next to the display? Then it all lights up and you can read all the numbers.

BenB - 24/8/16 at 01:22 PM

Are you able to change with a smart meter whilst retaining the "smart" feature? I thought currently different suppliers were unable to read competitor's smart meters meaning people had to manually read it.

loggyboy - 24/8/16 at 01:28 PM

are they not wifi - i thought they all had apps available?

nick205 - 24/8/16 at 01:58 PM

The web suggests pushing buttons in a certain sequence to "wake" the reading on the display.

Slimy38 - 24/8/16 at 02:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Are you able to change with a smart meter whilst retaining the "smart" feature? I thought currently different suppliers were unable to read competitor's smart meters meaning people had to manually read it.


The plan is that they can all read each others, courtesy of https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/. But only recently it was delayed until the Autumn, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37102725.

How that relates to the OP I don't know.

coozer - 24/8/16 at 02:12 PM

They have a sim card and use mobile technology?????

hearbear - 24/8/16 at 11:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by coozer
They have a sim card and use mobile technology?????


They will be fooked in my house once we have to get it fitted as struggle to get a mobile signal on any network in the house.

v8kid - 25/8/16 at 04:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by hearbear
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
They have a sim card and use mobile technology?????


They will be fooked in my house once we have to get it fitted as struggle to get a mobile signal on any network in the house.


Nope we have one and the mobile signal strength is poo. They can be fitted with booster antenna but ours still does not need that despite no mobile reception on any carrier. Like another poster said the supplier could not read the blessed meter until recently due to a software glitch which resulted in a nasty bill for outstanding leccy _ ouch!
Cheers

BenB - 25/8/16 at 07:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Slimy38
quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Are you able to change with a smart meter whilst retaining the "smart" feature? I thought currently different suppliers were unable to read competitor's smart meters meaning people had to manually read it.


The plan is that they can all read each others, courtesy of https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/. But only recently it was delayed until the Autumn, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37102725.

How that relates to the OP I don't know.


Guess I was flagging up to the OP that they might lose their smart meter function.....

nick205 - 25/8/16 at 08:40 AM

Thanks for the feedback chaps - another task for the weekend to try and read the ones we have.