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Octopus Go (not Intelligent)
As far as I can see Octopus Go just uses fixed times of day to switch rates. Does anyone know if it records usage in two registers, like E7?
I can't do anything until our meter's fixed, which I hope will be tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should play safe with a tariff that won't completely fail if the smart meter comms play up again. If they fix it tomorrow that's nearly four months, a long time to have everything billed at a peak rate.
I can't do anything until our meter's fixed, which I hope will be tomorrow. I'm wondering if I should play safe with a tariff that won't completely fail if the smart meter comms play up again. If they fix it tomorrow that's nearly four months, a long time to have everything billed at a peak rate.
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Qyburn said:As far as I can see Octopus Go just uses fixed times of day to switch rates. Does anyone know if it records usage in two registers, like E7?Generally no, it doesn't.Octopus did set up my meter to use two registers when I was on Go, but everyone on this forum tells me that's an anomaly.
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec / Fuse gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Ecoflow Stream, Best kettle :-)
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 37 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.0 -
Cheers. So paranoia suggests maybe I should go onto E7 initially once the meter's fixed, then change from E7 to Go. Hopefully that would mean if comms fail again I can at least revert to E7. I'm assuming that E7 can be billed from manual meter readings.0
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That would be an option, yes.Qyburn said:Cheers. So paranoia suggests maybe I should go onto E7 initially once the meter's fixed, then change from E7 to Go. Hopefully that would mean if comms fail again I can at least revert to E7. I'm assuming that E7 can be billed from manual meter readings.
N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec / Fuse gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Kirk Hill Co-op member.Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Ecoflow Stream, Best kettle :-)
2.72kWp PV facing SSW installed Jan 2012. 11 x 247w panels, 3.6kw inverter. 37 MWh generated, long-term average 2.6 Os.0 -
I had the same thing. I was Profile 2 at the time and already had use on the 2nd register from Flexible E7 during provisioning, so I don't know if that made a difference. If so the OP might benefit from going E7.QrizB said:Qyburn said:As far as I can see Octopus Go just uses fixed times of day to switch rates. Does anyone know if it records usage in two registers, like E7?Generally no, it doesn't.Octopus did set up my meter to use two registers when I was on Go, but everyone on this forum tells me that's an anomaly.
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Just noticed that the new meter is recording two registers, current import readings ..
A+ Value 00098
Rate 1 00089
Rate 2 00009
I don't know when it started doing so. Or which is which, but a look tomorrow will tell me.1 -
AFAIK, Octopus have been standardising on using 2 registers for Octopus Go recently.0
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