Help me understand my IHD reading

LilMissSunshine

So I've been using my in home display unit to see how much gas and electricity im spending.

Yesterday around 11pm after having had boiler on for total of 2.5hrs throughout the day and electricity from wfh etc. it said I had spent £2.86. However when I got up this morning I went back to check yesterday and it now says I spent £1.56. Why is there such a huge change?

I'm just concerned because if im trying to stick to a budget say £3 a day how can I actually know how much I spent if on the day it says I spent more than I have and the next day it seems to adjust itself.

[Deleted User]

Bear in mind that the two standing charges will be added to the daily total at the start of the day (c.0001hrs).

MWT

LilMissSunshine said:

I'm just concerned because if im trying to stick to a budget say £3 a day how can I actually know how much I spent if on the day it says I spent more than I have and the next day it seems to adjust itself.

That isn't how it works.

If your IHD is able to show you the total for yesterday, as well as the total for today so far, make sure you are comparing the same numbers, and not for example just looking at the electricity cost today vs the total of gas & electric for yesterday.

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LilMissSunshine said:

So I've been using my in home display unit to see how much gas and electricity im spending.

Yesterday around 11pm after having had boiler on for total of 2.5hrs throughout the day and electricity from wfh etc. it said I had spent £2.86. However when I got up this morning I went back to check yesterday and it now says I spent £1.56. Why is there such a huge change?

I'm just concerned because if im trying to stick to a budget say £3 a day how can I actually know how much I spent if on the day it says I spent more than I have and the next day it seems to adjust itself.

Let me make life a little easier for you. Download the App BRIGHT (it is free) and sign up as requested. It will show you the daily usage in kWhs plus cost.

LilMissSunshine

To clarify at 11pm yday I noted i had spent £2.86 for gas and electricity for the day

This morning I went to my monitor and looked back to yday stats and it said I have spent £1.56 for both gas and electricity 

So how comes it would go down? 

PennineAcute

IHDs can sometimes have a mind of their own.  They  rely upon bluetooth and if something is interferring with the signal, then incorrect info can be shown.

The Bright App has also had weird and wonderful moments with me and is not something which I would say can be wholly relied upon.

As with all forms of technology, when it works, it is great.  When it does not ...

Edit

My IHD seems to play up twice a year.  On the day the clocks go either forwards or backwards.  That day's gas showing is always zero.  The next day it sorts itself out.

Spies

PennineAcute said:

IHDs can sometimes have a mind of their own.  They  rely upon bluetooth and if something is interferring with the signal, then incorrect info can be shown.

The Bright App has also had weird and wonderful moments with me and is not something which I would say can be wholly relied upon.

As with all forms of technology, when it works, it is great.  When it does not ...

Edit

My IHD seems to play up twice a year.  On the day the clocks go either forwards or backwards.  That day's gas showing is always zero.  The next day it sorts itself out.

Bright reads from dcc, so if anything its the dcc data thats iffy.

Swipe

PennineAcute said:

The Bright App has also had weird and wonderful moments with me and is not something which I would say can be wholly relied upon.

My Bright app sometimes struggles to pull down all the data for a particular day but eventually catches up with itself and downloads it

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Swipe said:

PennineAcute said:

The Bright App has also had weird and wonderful moments with me and is not something which I would say can be wholly relied upon.

My Bright app sometimes struggles to pull down all the data for a particular day but eventually catches up with itself and downloads it

It downloads once per day at about 3am. It will update if you manually swipe it but this isn’t instant. The refresh rate is much higher if you pay for Hildebrand’s IHD/CAD.

Swipe

Dolor said:

Swipe said:

PennineAcute said:

The Bright App has also had weird and wonderful moments with me and is not something which I would say can be wholly relied upon.

My Bright app sometimes struggles to pull down all the data for a particular day but eventually catches up with itself and downloads it

The refresh rate is much higher if you pay for Hildebrand’s IHD/CAD.

Out of stock for months.

LilMissSunshine

Ok well im not really looking to pay £60 for a IHD. I raised it with EDF. Because I am concerned that I can't accurately budget how much gas I am usuing if it changes like this.

I have set up the hone energy hub part in the EDF App and I asked the support guy if that is accurate cos it says I spent total of £45 a month in gas and elec in November which does match my IHD stat and he said yes the energy hub information is accurate. Remains to be seen I suppose when I get my bill in Feb 22.