Any downsides to a smart meter?

alphaomega16 · Monday at 02:52

pastymuncher said:
It's nice to see how much you are using on both electricity and gas though.

Nice to know early if you got a gas leak as well if you see it going up and you are not using it.

200sols · Monday at 06:30

alphaomega16 said:
Nice to know early if you got a gas leak as well if you see it going up and you are not using it.

You'd smell it.

Bluecube · Monday at 07:12

Panda60 said:
Still not sure, if smart meter is worth upgrading to.

It really is. I’ve saved hundreds of pounds since getting one along with Octopus Tracker.

b0rn2sk8 · Monday at 07:29

Hundreds per year here just from the smart meter.

They then enable the installation of other things and when you combined them altogether it’s >£1k a year.

alphaomega16 · Monday at 12:08

200sols said:
You'd smell it.

If it was in the house sure

TheVoice · Monday at 16:52

TheVoice said:
They've been okay for me, after sending them a photo of the rear a couple of days ago it's showing connected to my meter now, though it isn't actually pulling any data about usage etc yet.

Unfortunately it seems to have disconnected my old IHD in the process.

My new IHD started fully working over the weekend and is now showing all the data as normal, which also means the Geo app is updated live too, which is handy. Even better is that the old IHD now works again, so I can have one in my living room/kitchen and one in my office.

Panda60 · Monday at 20:05

pastymuncher said:
It's nice to see how much you are using on both electricity and gas though.

We only use Electricity. No Gas at all.

pastymuncher · Tuesday at 08:47

Maybe you only use electricity but I have both and was what I was referring to.

Darujhistan · Tuesday at 18:52

My meter is from 2004 - soit's not smart, do they just upgrade the one I have - or install something else inside the house? - My meters are in the the usual grey box on an outside wall.

pastymuncher · Tuesday at 20:03

Complete replacement of the meters although they did some replacement wiring where the mains enters the house and goes to the meter on ours as well.

TheVoice · Wednesday at 14:01

Darujhistan said:
My meter is from 2004 - soit's not smart, do they just upgrade the one I have - or install something else inside the house? - My meters are in the the usual grey box on an outside wall.

They replace the meter and will provide an In-Home Display, but you can plug that in wherever you like (within range of the meter).