Will Ovo be able to take meter readings from my already installed smart meter from my previous supplier .
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View originalWill Ovo be able to take meter readings from my already installed smart meter from my previous supplier .
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View originalUpdated on 12/07/21 by Jess_OVO
Great to hear you’re switching to OVO and good question to check about the compatibility of your smart meters, this will depend on the type of smart meters you have installed.
OVO can communicate with all S2 meters. If you’ve got a Secure S1 smart meter we’re also able to communicate with these. If your Smart meter was installed by one of the following suppliers chances are these will be compatible -
Utilita Energy Limited
Co-operative Energy Ltd
First Utility Ltd
Electricity Plus Supply Ltd t/a The Utility Warehouse
E (Gas & Electricity)
Spark Energy Supply Limited
Eversmart Energy Ltd
EON Energy
Robin Hood Energy Limited
Ecotricity
Bristol Energy
Our Power Energy Supply Ltd
Octopus Energy
If you’ve got a S1 smart meter installed by another supplier, you might have to start reading your meter manually and submitting the readings on your online account or OVO app (download for Android or iOS). There’s some good news though - all smart meters are currently being upgraded so they will be able to communicate with all suppliers. You can check when your meter is likely to go through this remote upgrade here.
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If [the Moderators] feel it right to do so, they could create a new Topic for us and move into it all our discussion following your first post here 11 days ago. They'll choose an appropriate title, something like "Smart Meter commands and functions".
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Quite a lot of what you're writing is because you're new to the subject of Smart Meters, and haven't yet grasped the way they operate. You're plunging in at a very deep technical level. (To drive a car, you don't have to understand how the engine works!)
I'd suggest you read more of what others have already discussed on the Forum first.
I'll deal with your opening point by way of illustration:
SMETS1 commands a useful website, the list of commands seems endless but I assume that these are not for use by mere consumers.
Smart Meter commands are sent to/fro your Energy Supply Company via DCC. I've already posted a diagram showing the overall set-up here. The commands and the data returned are encrypted.
Separately to the Commands, each meter manufacturer decides which Display-features they will make available to consumers and engineers via the front-panel buttons. That's what you've been investigating. It's an entirely different concept from the Commands being transmitted via the Mobile-phone network from DCC.
Just because a manufacturer writes meter software to calculate Import-kVA, doesn't mean that this feature is supported via the SMETS commands.
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