Who Could Possibly Have Predicted Problems With Smart-Meters?

[Hymie]

Posted by Hymie: 23:27 Fri 11th Nov 2022:-

//.....And should your smart meter go wrong and disconnect you – if you think your supplier is going to rush round and fix it, your thinking is wrong.

Why anyone would have a smart meter fitted is a mystery to me.//

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11610525/Around-4-000-hit-smart-meter-defect-left-unable-spent.html

[Old_Geezer]

A so called "smart meter" gives very little, if any, benefit to a consumer daft enough to agree to have one installed. You can monitor your normal meter if you are a fanatic. What it does is open you up to potential technical problems, to malicious interference from other parties, incompatibility between rival companies, but much much much worse of all, you voluntarily pass control of your supply (and info on how you use it, and when) from yourself to the company's offices. The most foolish decision since the time of allowing commercial companies access to your worldly wealth based on some promise that they won't abuse it. There must be something in the water, or maybe the air, since we can not recollect a time when the human race retrograded so quickly in it's ability for rational thought as it has done over the last half century or so.

[barry1010]

A disconnected in home display does not affect your supply nor the readings sent to the supplier.
When my in home display goes down (once it was faulty and had to be replaced and once it was down for a few hours) I can see the same real time information on the app. My bills have always been accurate.

People say 'smart meter' when they mean 'in home display'.

[barry1010]

OG, the energy company has always been in control of my supply. A smart meter has not affected that at all.
I didn't have a smart meter in the 70s when I, and most of the population, were subjected to regular power cuts.

[Gromit]

// I have £2500 with my supplier and they pay be quite well every month in iinterest. //

PMSL

[barry1010]

Don't know why you're wetting your pants, Gromit, I do the same as this year get 5% on my credit balance, it was 4% last year.

[ToraToraTora]

someone has hacked hymie! There is no mention of brexit in the OP.

[Zacs-Master]

Poor old Hymie. Gives a link to a DM article in support of their argument and then states that They ‘doubt DM journalists are intelligent enough to know the difference’.
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world inside Hymie’s head.

[Maydup]

Maybe I’m one of the lucky ones but I’ve had no problems with my smart meter. I’m just happier knowing exactly what we’re using and to see the back if estimated bills.

There will always be a few faulty ones just like there are faulty new cars, white goods or even vital hospital equipment and the DM are guaranteed to find them.

[Arksided]

I appreciate having a smart meter (Utilita) I know exactly what I’m using and know where I stand with them.

[Hopkirk]

The DM article informs us that BG say only 0.1% of their smart meters are not working as they should.
I don't believe it.

I transferred to BG three years ago, the smart meter has never worked properly and they are not interested.

It didn't used to work at all. Now it sends electric meter readings but not gas. The in home display doesn't give any useful information so I have put it in a cupboard.

[lankeela]

I agree that people don't know the difference between a smart meter and an in home display. I am currently eating toasted crumpets done in the toaster which I have to unplug the in home display to plug in.

[Arksided]

Hopkirk, I wouldn’t trust BG as far as I can throw them. So happy to escape from them

[barry1010]

Hopkirk, is it your smart meter or in home display that isn't working? Do you use an app as well as the in home display?

[Arksided]

Hmm toasted crumpets… sorry I’m distracted

[Arksided]

*easily

[jan1956]

it isn't difficult to read your own meter and keep a log on what you are using. Never had smart meters years ago didn't need them then and don't need them now. Don't have a dd. Just pay when we read meter every 3 months. No problem

[Hopkirk]

The smart meter doesn't send gas readings. The in home display doesn't give useful information. I don't think it knows my tariff.

Arky, I went to BG to get away from the incompetent EON.

[lankeela]

Crumpets 8 for 52p in Sainsburys!

[Togo]

Some of us were advising about the folly of having the not so smart meters installed long before you found another hobby horse. Tell us ... which invasive organisation passed legislation decreeing that all, yes all; even toasters, had to have chips installed to allow smart meters to track their use? Right again ... the eussr. A few excerpts from when the site had rational discussion as a given and had not been hijacked by the single issue zealots.

//Just ask yourselves. So these meters are a wonderful boon for the consumer, they are going to enable us to use less electrickery and reduce our bills, whilst saving the planet and ensuring that we can all do our washing for no cost whatsoever. Right? And the utility companies are giving them away and fitting them at no cost to us. Now I bet that makes sense does it not, the avaricious suppliers want to reduce our bills (and their profits) and to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Plus the moon is made of cheese. With these meters they will indeed make you "smart". // 20:20 Wed 21st Sept 2016 Guess who?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1514056-2.html

and

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Business-and-Finance/Personal-Finance/Question1457281.html

[barry1010]

Jan, if you are happy to pay around 10% more for not using DD you must have more spare cash than me.