Smart Meter Issue - Scotland

Ildhund

Azteca1986 said:

I did manage to run the Homebrew but it also says that it can't see the meter.

OK. I wonder if that means that because there used to be no WAN, the supplier hasn't tried to commission the meter since then.

Azteca1986 said:

... the solid HAN is wrong, it's supposed to be flashing in the same interval, which we think is causing the problem as the devices are not communicating to each other.
  

  It's more likely that there's nothing for the HAN to connect to - neither a gas meter nor an IHD.  

Azteca1986 said:

We have taken matters into our hands and build an aerial, as the "North" type of meter you can't connect antenna to. We think it is thanks to the aerial the WAN signal started working now.
  

OK, that wasn't clear to me from the start - had you already done this before I suggested it? I presume you have a simple repeater that sucks up the LRR signal high up and squirts it out again next to the CH. 

Have you impressed on the supplier that there is a WAN signal now? It's possible, of course, that the signal still isn't strong enough for commissioning, which involves a lot more data to and fro that the normal daily retrieval of meter readings and usage data. However, that will only become apparent by testing, and I don't know whether that can all be done remotely. You could ask ...

Meter engineers in NE Scotland are run off their feet these days trying to exchange RTS meters before this summer's deadline. I doubt it's true that there are none in the area; they're just really busy with a damage-limitation operation to save RTS customers from an uncertain future. Sadly, frustrated EV owners don't enjoy high priority for engineering services just now.