Green tech & greener living

Hi, While tinkering with my UFH and trying to develop a control algorithm for my “virtual” thermostats, I ended up here and on other forums and realized I am doing everything WRONG. Shame on me 🤣 I have already read up on as much as I good on related topics, watched all the related heatgeek videos I could find. I get it now, low and slow is the game, and right now the weather is perfect to commission the system and dial in by weather compensation curve .I seem to have got the right temperature down for the current(2-3c) weather and will try it out during the night when it hits 0c today. I am currently also at 4c(it does move between 3-5) of TD between in and return flow. So what I now learned (if its wrong please correct me):Low and Slow Weather Comp. Limit 3rd party intervention Low setback Use thermostats (or in my case smart relays with temp. sensors that shut the valves

Hi! I've got my smart meter yesterday but something went wrong and my boiler is not working. It's Friday night and I have no hot water until the next week???

Our Liberty 100 meter has started beeping for some reason. There is a code of E1. What does this mean? We also have a message about credit and cost, but we pay by monthly DD. Can anybody out there please tell us how to stop this beeping??? 

Hi all rightly or wrongly, been trying to get smart metres fitted to gas and electricity. Booked up a free visit last year with OVO engineer and he took one look at it and said can't do it gov because your gas and electricity metres are too close to each other.And off he went. So, been toing and froing with OVO and they said they will be able to fit smart metres if minimum distance between said meters is achieved and it will cost me £125 to them to movement the gas metre, or so I thought..… So booked a date in November for what I thought was going to be OVO to move the gas metre and was then told to phone Cadent i.e. British Gas for them to actually repositioned meter. Got a provisional quote from them for £790 to move it less than a metre!! The cadent person also said there is no legal requirement for a minimum distance to be achieved for older gas and electricity installations although these

HiJust started to review our usage on the small monitor and don't understand why the hourly usage between 1.30am and 5.30am is almost as high as when i had the washing machine and dish washer on this morning. Any idea? Thanks

How much does a 3kw heater cost to run per minute please?

Howdo.Just curious – had the following message pop up on my in-home display this afternoon. Got it twice at the same time, one each for gas and electric.“ *** Helpdesk ** Help Line No.:”Refer Retailer Guide” ** Supplier:”0000” ***Is that anything that needs attention, or can I ignore it? It’s the first message that’s come up since “Welcome to Ovo” in 2017. I didn’t even know it received messages, to be honest. If I hadn’t heard the beep when it arrived I’d be none the wiser.Thanks! 

HelloEveryday between the hours of 3am to 6am my electric usage is really high and I can’t seem to work out why? Both me and my boyfriend are always asleep at this time and the earliest we get up on some days is 7am but our usage for every half hour between those times is between 1.33kwh to 1.54kwh but hardly any electricity is being used whilst we are asleep as we turn everything off before we go to bed the only thing that stays on is the fridge/freezer and our phone chargers our electric water heater comes on at 6am Please could someone help as our electric is really high for 2 of us in a 1 bed apartment are usage is between £3.80 to £5.90 a day😩 

Does the smart meter need to be plugged in all the time? As soon as I unplug mine it starts to beep practically straight away so is this the way they are meant to be? Cheers Jess 

Hello,Landis+GYR E470 electricity meter beepingPlease please help! Day two of this darn meter beeping and I can't even escape it because I live in a small flat! It's 1.35am... this meter is driving me nuts!On the digital display thing I've also increased the budget as per one of the conversations on here. This hasn't worked... It's still beeping.I've had the smart meter for a couple of years with no problems. I genuinely don't understand how to stop the beeping.Who takes responsibility for the unit? British Gas installed it but I'm now with BULB.Please please make the beeping stop!Thanks,Nirmita

Now my smart meter shows gas too, I notice without using any hot water nor central heating, when the boiler pumps water around the rads for around 90 secs (I gather it’s to help stop the rads silting up), it also lights up during that time, though the outflow pipe hardly gets warm. The result is 0.15kwh of gas used, EVERY HOUR or so.No gas is used when the boiler is switched off. Does burning gas help prevent silting up?Or are boiler makers just oblivious to waste?Can I somehow stop the gas usage when it’s just pumping around?(Even in winter the central heating is off at night, so why use gas then?)What’s the risk to the silt situation (I have filters) of keeping the boiler switchedoff when not in use (like all summer just turning it on for hot water)? thanks Danny   

Hello I am thinking about having a smart meter installed, but I have solar panels. From research online I understand that the smart meter British Gas use are compatible with PVs – which is great. But I would like greater understanding on the interface / the meter reading which will be displayed. So for example: - If I am using £1 of electricity an hour and its at night (no PV electricity being generated) how would that differ on the smart meter reading from using £1 of electricity an hour In the middle of a sunny day where my PVs are generating electricity. Would it display the same cost usage (still £1 per hour) – thus ignoring the energy being generated, or would it display a lesser figure taking into account the amount being generated by my PV? Thanks.  

When I joined OVO I didn’t get the lovely smart colour In Home Display they advertise showing your actual current useage, but a fairly useless Secure Pipit 500 black & white unit that defaults to a meaningless display of the total you’ve ever spent with OVO.  With the need to monitor energy usage more closely, can anyone recommend a good In Home Display that I could buy if necessary which shows as a default display the actual live gas and electricity usage?  Sadly, I can’t get anywhere with OVO themselves...

Hi everyone, I’m a former SSE customer who was moved to OVO in July and I’ve had nothing but problems with readings and bills since then. My latest problem is that the smart metre readings sent automatically and registered to my account are wildly inaccurate. Today’s registered reading from the smart metre for example was 3664 but the actual reading on my electricity meter is 3466. How is this so out?? 

I am looking for some advice regarding my elderly father's meter installation.My father had a letter from his supplier advising him that he needed to have a smart meter installed because the radio switching service that controls his off-peak storage radiators is expected to be de-commissioned next March. My father agreed to the installation and I arranged to be present.In the event, the installer declined to fit a smart meter on the grounds that there is an earth leakage trip switch on the supplier side of the meter (installed by the Southern Electricity Board in the 1970s) and it is now policy to install trip switches on the customer side of the meter. He suggested that we either employ an electrician to move/replace the trip switch or manage without the smart meter. He pointed out that the off peak switching is managed by a clock and so is not affected by the radio switching issue.I was surprised that the householder would be responsible for wiring on the supp

We have a heat pump installed but Ovo still charge us the gas standing charge even though we paid them to remove our gas meter and cap the pipes, no one we have spoken to seem to understand that we no longer use gas only electric. It's a real disincentive to having a heat pump, we are trying to be green and do the right thing so this has really upset us as bills are so high as it is. Has anyone experienced similar?

Hi All, I’ve been told by another supplier (pre OVO) that I couldn’t have a smart meter because of the way the houses in my small terrace (4) were set up. I was told that the engineer would need access to all 4 houses at the same time! Has anyone else heard of this. or could someone explain? CheersDome

Is there a way of finding out how much electricity I am producing with my solar panels ? Or how much I have been paid so far in FIT Meter readings ? 

Hi there, I just had solar installed over the last few days. It was 14 panels which is 5,460 watts. The inverter is a 5k inverter. I know nothing but queried this, how can the inverter be smaller than the max consumption? They said its normal to under spec the inverter by up to 20% as you never get the max output. When then panels get hot they are less efficient etc. Anyway, when they get up on the roof they say there is actually room for 2 more panels, do I want them? I said yes thats great, but surely now we need a bigger inverter? Now the max output is 6,240W. The inverter is 5k. No they say, you will never get to the max, maybe once or twice a year. So here is the data from today. the very first day. Clearly you can see its bumping up against the max across about 2 hours in the middle of the day. I know its very

Well here is your chance.… Opened by a ChargedEv engineer in front of me (I didn't ask) while i finally have my replacement unit. @Transparent , @Blastoise186  thought you may in partuculat be interested. And yes, he left it opend like this in the rain too...

Hi All, Started with OVO over a year ago moving from e.on.  So at the time of that move the tariffs sent to the meter by OVO were incorrect - VAT was added twice as I recall. I tried via customer support to get it fixed but to no avail.  I KNOW it does not affect the billing but it does affect the IHD budget/usage display.  In the end I forgot about it - it was roughly right. Moving to a new tariff in March (radically different) I hoped the update would fix everything :-) Well the electricity is now correct but Gas hasn’t changed from the incorrect ones of a year ago.  I raised this with Customer Service and Joseph emailed me “I understand that your In-Home Display (IHD) is missing some data. We have now sent some information to your smart meters remotely which should reinforce the connection to your IHD.Please allow 24 hours from receiving this email and then turn your IHD off and on again and keep it as close to your el

paid £26 for this ihd6, looks like it can’t be paired, rang my providor who said I needed and installcode, not something it came with. No looking at the ivie bud at another 54£ thinking i’ve paid 26£ on ewaste, are these ihd6 only work if sent by providor?

Hi I have a problem with my electric meter as it is an looped neutral meter I really want a smart meter but the most companies can’t change a looped meter could you maybe help me with this problem