TIP : how to view the electric night rate on your smart meter

eastmidsaver

apologies if this is old news, or you already know this.

but i thought i'd share a tip as was unsure how to view the night rate on the smart meter.  looking on the internet was unable to find the answer, and many other people were asking the same question,  or complaining about this "bug".

so contacted the energy company who said you can do this by pressing and holding B for five seconds, then (while still holding you press A once. this then changes it to 'rate 02'.

hope this helps some of you.

[Deleted User]

Your post would be more helpful if you specified which manufacturer; meter model and meter specification (SMETS1 or SMETS). Sadly, each meter model is different: some require button presses and some do not.

The latest smart meter statistics indicate that there are currently 258 different versions of meters (makes, models, firmware versions, etc) approved on to be deployed on the (DCC) smart meter network from just 10 manufacturers. One manufacturer has 20 firmware/hardware versions of a single model of Electricity Meter in the live environment.

MWT

Agreed, sadly there are no universal instructions to do this and a lot of smart electric meters don't even have 'A' and 'B' buttons...

WBCPB

I have to do this procedure on my Landis & Gyr E470 Type 5424 Smets2, found it from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP7XzaNTGlM
Regards

Reed_Richards

MWT said:

Agreed, sadly there are no universal instructions to do this and a lot of smart electric meters don't even have 'A' and 'B' buttons...

Has nobody made a compendium of instructions that would cover every type of smart meter?

MWT

Reed_Richards said:

MWT said:

Agreed, sadly there are no universal instructions to do this and a lot of smart electric meters don't even have 'A' and 'B' buttons...

Has nobody made a compendium of instructions that would cover every type of smart meter?

[Deleted User] said:

The latest smart meter statistics indicate that there are currently 258 different versions of meters (makes, models, firmware versions, etc) approved on to be deployed on the (DCC) smart meter network from just 10 manufacturers. One manufacturer has 20 firmware/hardware versions of a single model of Electricity Meter in the live environment.

Each energy supplier tends to focus on the ones they install, and certainly some are a lot more common than others, but no, to the best of my knowledge there is no single place to go to find the instructions for all of them.

niktheguru

Octopus has a relatively decent guide on reading different types of smart meter and normal meters.....it's a start at least

https://octopus.energy/blog/how-to-read-your-meter/#smets2meter

eastmidsaver

apologies,  didn't realize all smart meters are different.  it's a SMETS 2,  but unsure at the moment which make it is.   

tim_p

eastmidsaver said:

apologies,  didn't realize all smart meters are different.

Different I can understand but why, oh why, wasn’t there some standardisation and simplification of the actual interface!  Incomprehensible in this day and age. 

MWT

eastmidsaver said:

apologies,  didn't realize all smart meters are different.  it's a SMETS 2,  but unsure at the moment which make it is.   

It is almost certainly a recent L&G E470 meter from what you have posted so far.

The 5424 mentioned above is one of the models that the instructions would work on but there are others as L&G have used the 'E470' description for some years now across a large number of different models.

[Deleted User]

We are in this mess because the Government insisted that suppliers carried all the risk, and consumers paid for their mistakes with no blame falling on politicians. The French Government decided to go for a single design (Linky) built by 6 manufacturers. 

Data is transmitted by carrier line technology so no home networks or IHDs. All consumption data etc is available online; no IHDs.