Not so smart meter

brightondave

Hi guys I'm with Octopus, have an electric vehicle, run the usual dishwasher, washing machine etc on the cheap night rate. But over a year ago when i had the smart meter installed and you get given one of these silly little displays  apparently the displays can't cope with showing a seperate night rate usage in £s?  Or is there a display you can buy that does that?
Thankyou for any info   Happy New Year

MultiFuelBurner

brightondave said:

Hi guys I'm with Octopus, have an electric vehicle, run the usual dishwasher, washing machine etc on the cheap night rate. But over a year ago when i had the smart meter installed and you get given one of these silly little displays  apparently the displays can't cope with showing a seperate night rate usage in £s?  Or is there a display you can buy that does that?
Thankyou for any info   Happy New Year

Have you asked Octopus for one of their smart minis. 

That will provide you with the data and up to date pricing you need.

QrizB

brightondave said:

...  apparently the displays can't cope with showing a seperate night rate usage in £s?  Or is there a display you can buy that does that?

The short answer is no, the in-home displays don't handle multi-rate credit tariffs well. (They cope better if you're a prepayment customer.)

The Octopus Home Mini will give you live energy use data in the Octopus app, but even that doesn't always get the cost of multi-rate electricity correct.

Happy New Year to you, too

dunstonh

But over a year ago when i had the smart meter installed and you get given one of these silly little displays  apparently the displays can't cope with showing a seperate night rate usage in £s?

Or to reword that more accurately, your one may not but others manage it perfectly fine.

Or is there a display you can buy that does that?

I bought a third party one as I wanted more data than the bog standard one provided.   As a high user (circa 50-60kWh per day for electric) I wanted something a bit more useful.
https://shop.glowmarkt.com/products/display-and-cad-combined-for-smart-meter-customers

The picture on that link does it no favours as it just shows one screen which happens to the the most basic.   However, you can cycle through a range of pages and the one I use shows current draw, the last 24 hours broken down by 30 minute segments, daily, weekly and monthly use to date.   Like below



It works with our economy 7 and correctly calculates the rate/time.  Personally, I focus on kWh rather than monetary values.

powerful_Rogue

So your smart meter is still 'smart', it's just the IHD that is an issue.Bit of a misleading title.