My second-hand IHD can't be paired, what's another way to integrate my smart meter data with a Home Assistant?

Hi @creatish ,

I’m really sorry to tell you this, but I’m afraid you won’t be able to pair that IHD6 at all. A lot of suppliers are somewhat wary about installing IHDs bought from eBay or Amazon, so my best advice would be to send it back for a refund. If the seller won’t budge, you can use eBay Buyer Protection to force a refund on the basis the goods aren’t fit for purpose.

The only way the IHD6 is known to work is if it’s sent to you by your energy supplier. However, the ivie Bud will work just fine as long as you buy it directly from https://ivie.co.uk . You’ll want to check the compatibility first though, which you can do via https://ivie.co.uk/compatibility . You’ll also be able to self-pair too without calling your supplier, simply follow the included instructions in the box and on the device and you should be up and running within a few hours.

Thankyou, I’ve opened the return, I thought it would work as kept seeing them sell for £20 lol.

if going to have to pay £50 might aswell stretch to this one, seems pretty overpriced for what it is but this one seems to ACTUALLY have the wifi workung now and not just a vague ‘’coming soon’’ in which looks to be in the works for last 3 years+ so would hold my breath them getting that working.

https://shop.glowmarkt.com/products/display-and-cad-combined-for-smart-meter-customers

This one also has ‘’homeassistant’’ integration going so might be more ‘’open source’’ in that sense.

If you have SMETS2 meters, feel free to get both the ivie Bud and the Hildebrand Glow if you want to. Not many people would do that, but it’s supported as long as you don’t have more than four IHDs active at once.

If you have S1 meters though, only the Hildebrand Glow will work at this time. They’ve informed me that they’ll have more S1 stock available within the next month or so - they just need to finalise a few details first.

And don’t get me started on those eBay sellers! XD

I personally only use 2-4kwh at the moment, barely anything, but I am bit of a geek and want to see live usage in Homeassistant,  ‘’just because’’  from looking hildebrand looks to do that.

just wondering if paying £70 is worth it lol

Well… I have two SMETS2 Chameleon IHD6-CAD-PPMID on my setup and they work brilliantly for me. Exactly how I got them is a loooooong story and not one I’d want to type up at 11pm. But the short version is that I managed to get OVO to post the first one out when I had an S1 meter (and didn’t realise it wouldn’t work!) and when OVO swapped out that meter for an S2, I managed to score a second one from the engineer and then paired up both of them.

If you do get the Hildebrand Glow though, fancy doing a review for us? I’ve already got one for the ivie Bud but due to my unique circumstances, I cannot do a review of the Hildebrand Glow!

@ArundaleP uses Home Assistant to good effect with their home, do you reckon it’s worth the IHD cost? 

@creatish how come your supplier can’t provide an IHD?

There is at least one large supplier that appears to aggressively deny requests to send out an IHD, even for customers who don’t have one at all yet. I won’t name and shame them here, but that same supplier also happens to be one that provides the absolutely terrible IHDL SmartView 2 with SMETS2 installs.

Hi I understand Hildebrand glow can integrate with Home Assistant. Can iVie Bud integrate with HA? If not how the user can get to the their own energy data?

Ivie bud can't now 

Ivie bud have been qoutijg integration with smart things for about 3 years from what I can see they have it working with bulb customers but that's about it 

There CS says it's coming soon but no date 

I personally wouldn't avoid ivie bud till it's actually available 

And if it's HA your after even when ST is available still won't work with HA unless someone created the integration 

The glow have a no screen option coming in next month which is same price £50