Accessing my smart meter data?

Spies

Previously I had a zigbee hall sensor taped to the front of my gas meter and it detected the magnet on the first unit as it turned, I was able to capture this data and put it into graphs etc.

With my new smart meters I obviously cannot do this, can I get access to my half-hourly usage data somehow? 

QrizB

Yes. if you're with one of the big suppliers (or a subset of the small ones) you can download the data from their website.

Or you can sign up as a consumer with n3rgy.com and get your data from there.

MWT

Your supplier is the first place to look, the better ones will have a simple data download option.

What you cannot do is directly access your meter data locally. 

FreeBear

MWT said: What you cannot do is directly access your meter data locally. 

Not strictly true. There are Consumer Access Devices available that will allow local access to the data. The problem is getting the supplier to pair the device up with the meter(s). With most (all ?) of these devices, the data is uploaded to an external web site which you then have to access using an app. Far from ideal if you want real time data to import to a home automation system.

wallport

It seems n3rgy.com data does not show meter readings but amount used in a period. This means that if a period is missed due to an error, there is no way to calculate that data or to calculate what a reading was at a moment in time (to compare with a bill). My data has many errors for some reason and yet British Gas say there is no problem.

Is there a way to get actual readings?

Swipe

Is there a way to get actual readings?

No, but next best thing is to try the Bright by Hilderbrand app that will work out cost for you.

BHCJackie

I use the Loop app by Loop Energy. 
I'm too new to post links just search for Loop Energy

It's a beta and they push a lot of stuff about solar but it does seem to work. 

ctdctd

The Bright app will do exactly what you want. 
Here's a screenshot of mine showing half hourly electricity use - it also shows gas in the same way. 

matelodave

as above, here's a screen shot from Bright of my leccy consumption - note the scale, as we are all electric we've used a lot more for the same period 

MWT

FreeBear said:

MWT said: What you cannot do is directly access your meter data locally. 

Not strictly true. There are Consumer Access Devices available that will allow local access to the data. The problem is getting the supplier to pair the device up with the meter(s). With most (all ?) of these devices, the data is uploaded to an external web site which you then have to access using an app. Far from ideal if you want real time data to import to a home automation system.

I missed this reply at the time, but it is appropriate to respond now as there is about to be a change...

The original point was that you cannot access the data locally, having the data uploaded elsewhere and then downloaded again is not 'local access' as you remain dependent on another service to host and provide your data back to you...

The change is that Hildebrand are shortly going to release a new variant of their CAD which is able to provide a local MQTT feed which should enable true, local access...

FreeBear

MWT said:

FreeBear said:

MWT said: What you cannot do is directly access your meter data locally. 

Not strictly true. There are Consumer Access Devices available that will allow local access to the data. The problem is getting the supplier to pair the device up with the meter(s). With most (all ?) of these devices, the data is uploaded to an external web site which you then have to access using an app. Far from ideal if you want real time data to import to a home automation system.

I missed this reply at the time, but it is appropriate to respond now as there is about to be a change...

The original point was that you cannot access the data locally, having the data uploaded elsewhere and then downloaded again is not 'local access' as you remain dependent on another service to host and provide your data back to you...

The change is that Hildebrand are shortly going to release a new variant of their CAD which is able to provide a local MQTT feed which should enable true, local access...

Depending on what data is published in the MQTT message, that would be very useful. But.... Right at the bottom of this page - https://shop.glowmarkt.com/products/display-and-cad-combined-for-smart-meter-customers - * MQTT on our Display/CAD is over the internet, device will not support local MQTT - Not so useful. I don't want to rely on an external server to access data that is being generated locally.