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My smart gas meter isn't communicating with OVO anymore - no readings - why?

  • November 21, 2017
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Have been on Smart Gas and Electric meters for some time now but in the last month the Gas meter has failed to send any readings to OVO so at the weekend I did a manual read by pressing '9' on the Gas meter and sent these in. Anyone have any ideas why this would suddenly stop working? is there some magic sequence of buttons to press to get this working again? The smart display shows figures for Electric but nothing at all for Gas.

 

Best answer by Mw2870

Updated on 12/06/24 by Abby_OVO: 

 

There are several things which could affect the communication of your smart meters.

 

If you notice we haven’t received your readings automatically check out our smart meter health check for Secure S1 meters or Aclara S2 meters.

 

It’s possible there may be connection issues between the meter and your In Home Display (IHD) find out more on our IHD guides -

S2 smart meter and Chameleon IHD

S1 smart meter and Chameleon IHD

S1 meter with a Pipit IHD

 

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110 replies

BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Hi @Parfi1959 it sounds like the meter is working, just not sending readings. Is it somewhere that you can take a look? The display is usually blank but if you press a button it will light up and you can take a reading to send yourself. That’s a start, then we can try to find out what’s not working. 
Is it a distance from the electric meter?

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Newcomer
January 3, 2023

Hi thank you, I’ve taken a meter reading and sent it by email as requested, the meter is very close to the electric meter, I’ve also done the meter test and sent it, still nothing has been done on my bill is old meter reading from 6 th October 

BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Can you take a photo of your electric meter and include the bit with the flashing lights then tell us what the lights are doing

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Newcomer
January 3, 2023

Hi yes I can but will have to ask my neighbour to do that, is a bit later on ok , when we checked on the list they were flashing at 5 second intervals both wan and Han thank you

BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Whenever suits is fine. Someone will stop by later and see if they can help

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Newcomer
January 3, 2023

Hi This is the photo 

The sw wan Han and gas are flashing green every 5 seconds, the top photo is the gas meter and reading 

BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Ok thanks. So the green flashing at 5 sec intervals suggests all is ok there. Has anyone asked you to go through this online form https://smart-meter-help.ovoenergy.com/

Sorry if you’ve already done this but just trying to go through the sequence of testing

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Blastoise186
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Looks like the gas meter has a good signal, but there’s a message waiting for you on it. Could you go into the menus and tell us what it is please?

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Newcomer
January 3, 2023

Hi yes did the online check, on the message screen it reads gas meter initialised, sorry for the delay had to wait for my neighbour 

BPLightlog
Super User
Super User
January 3, 2023

Ok, if it’s all initialised and connected locally, it’s worth checking the link to the main hub at the DCC. There’s a citizens advice link to this 

https://smartmetercheck.citizensadvice.org.uk/meters/new?fuel_type=gas

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