Smelt 2 13 June at 8:43PM in Energy 6 replies 192 views

bluesriff7

At the moment I am with shell energy contract ends in July 2020. I have to
provide them with a meter reading every month. The smart meter I have
is a smet1 ( British Gas ) which is now dead it used show the meter 
readings on the remote control but not anymore.
i have to use steps to get my meter readings and it’s a real pain now.
Meter is just below. My ceiling.

I Have done a search for a new deal and E,ON is offering a better deal
than shell, but they are saying a smart meter to be fitted.

Would they replace my meter with a smet 2 or am I stuck with an 

Old smet1.

Neil_Jones

Last I looked into this the plan was for all SMETS1 meters to receive a firmware upgrade to make them SMETS2 compliant.  So you may not get a new meter unless there is an issue that prevents the meter from being upgraded, and in that case a replacement should be rearranged.  However the current deadline is June next year, which may be pushed back slightly further due to COVID-19, so to answer the question:  Probably not since you already have a smart meter.

Gerry1

If you qualify for the Priority Services Register you may be able to get your meter read for you.

matelodave

Even if a SMETS1 meter gets enrolled onto the DCC to allow remote reading functionality it won'y necessarily make the IHD work again

johnramsbottom

My experience of this is that I have Landis & Gyr meters fitted by Brit gas. They have been dumb since switching supplier, but the IHD did still work - the £ figures were obviously wrong but you could get a meter reading. However in Dec 2019 first the gas then the electricity figures disappeared and soon after it stopped working completely- the display saying "connecting to smart meter"
Someone must have communicated with the meter to make this change. Latest date I have seen is 26 July 2020 to migrate to DCC system.

vic_sf49

I've just had my smets1 swapped for smets2 with EON, due to signing up for a tariff that required a smart meter be fitted. 

(I emailed to check a smets 2 would be fitted, or it would have been a waste of everyone's time.) 

brewerdave

vic_sf49 said:

I've just had my smets1 swapped for smets2 with EON, due to signing up for a tariff that required a smart meter be fitted. 

(I emailed to check a smets 2 would be fitted, or it would have been a waste of everyone's time.) 

I'm surprised that they have done a "smart" meter swap. Not sure whether they can count the SMETS 2 install towards their smart metering targets and the EON reps.on these forums have constantly pushed the "SMETS1 upgrade is coming soon" message .