Octopus Intelligent meter readings

Keep_pedalling

Marksfish said:

And each subsequent page has a helpful pink line around the times charged as off peak, even the extras they give you. I have gone through all the pages looking at that, but to go through the rest is too time consuming.



I'll have to trust the pink, it's "progress" I suppose, but will be submitting readings monthly for my records.

After all the previous advice given over the years about submitting meter readings and keeping up to date, i'm surprised at the rather blase attitude to this style of charging.

Not really blasé, I just don’t think they are needed with a system where it is pretty obvious things have gone wrong because you are no longer seeing half hourly data, and they don’t revert to estimated readings if they stop getting that data.

Bendo

You will probably find montly register reads under the meter readings section in the octopus app. But obviously Octopus don't use them since they are pointless on the tariff you are on.

Qyburn

Meter readings would serve as a sanity check. The total energy billed, in kWh, should closely match the difference in meter readings. Rounding errors may mean it doesn't quite match, the tariff I'm on is billed on daily use and I have seen one bill where they differed by a fraction of a kWh

BarelySentientAI

Keep_pedalling said:

Marksfish said:

And each subsequent page has a helpful pink line around the times charged as off peak, even the extras they give you. I have gone through all the pages looking at that, but to go through the rest is too time consuming.



I'll have to trust the pink, it's "progress" I suppose, but will be submitting readings monthly for my records.

After all the previous advice given over the years about submitting meter readings and keeping up to date, i'm surprised at the rather blase attitude to this style of charging.

Not really blasé, I just don’t think they are needed with a system where it is pretty obvious things have gone wrong because you are no longer seeing half hourly data, and they don’t revert to estimated readings if they stop getting that data.

Plus you can get a record of the half-hourly data from several other sources to check in detail whether the usage on the bill is accurate.

Alnat1

The app still shows meter readings for me, try scrolling to the bottom of the usage page.

Netexporter

Alnat1 said:

The app still shows meter readings for me, try scrolling to the bottom of the usage page.

So it does! Hadn't noticed that before.

Marksfish

Alnat1 said:

The app still shows meter readings for me, try scrolling to the bottom of the usage page.

I've seen that, but the only readings showing are the ones I have manually sent.

Netexporter

Marksfish said:

Alnat1 said:

The app still shows meter readings for me, try scrolling to the bottom of the usage page.

I've seen that, but the only readings showing are the ones I have manually sent.

Well stop sending them. I've not made a manual submission since I've had the smart meter and there is a reading for every month.

Marksfish

My bill is created on the 28th of the month. If there was going to be a reading, surely it would be on that date? I submit on the 2nd oof the month to give it a chance to show, but never has.

Netexporter

The readings on my app are on the billing date, so it is easy to subtract one month from the next as a quick check that the total kWh on the bill agrees.