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SMART meter time?
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From the little I have seen of smart meters they are a lot harder to read than the old ones. As in the need to bend over & keep pressing buttons & hope you catch the number as it goes flashing passed you.Our Liberty smets 2 is no harder to read than the previous meter. You just press button 6 to cycle through to get the day and night readings (button 9 on single rate tariffs). The same as our previous non-smart reader except the buttons to select were different.I know they stopped fitting them here for a couple of years because of comms problems but who is to say that the new comms are any better.We had two failed smets 1 attempts due to no mobile signal. The smets 2 was installed with a good signal. Things have moved on.Don't ask me to believe them because they were trying to force them before when they must have known they weren't going to work.the person booking the appointment to get a meter installed won't know if it will work or not. The first thing the installer does on a visit is plug in a device that gives the an indication of whether it will work or not.
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the person booking the appointment to get a meter installed won't know if it will work or not. The first thing the installer does on a visit is plug in a device that gives the an indication of whether it will work or not.
Suppliers are aware of areas where there are known connectivity issues: for example, in Scotland, where there is no direct line of sight with the UHF transmitter. You are correct in saying that installers should check the network coverage before starting an installation as they need network connectivity to complete the installation.
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