Why is my SMETS2 gas meter not sending readings?

Erm, @Tim_OVO … that page concerns itself solely with SMETS1 meters made by Secure.

@RichardOsborn has SMETS2 meters installed less than a month ago.

Given the timing, I suspect the newly inflicted issue with IHD connectivity is most likely related to the firmware update and downloading his actual tariff data as it is brought onto the new Billing System.

Ah… but @RichardOsborn, let’s remember that @Amy_OVO is a Moderator, not an engineer.

The Moderators are carefully selected. They must exhibit an ability to foresee solutions in directions where none actually exist.

Moderators are free-thinkers. They must rise above factors that so hinder us mere mortals. Not for them are the laws of physics or the uni-directional nature of time.

Amy’s mind is unfettered by the requirement for electromagnetic radiation to carry data uniformly from the Communications Hub to the IHD. Rather, she stretches imagination to an extent that defies all laws of probability, and thus deduces the infinitesimally small possibility of gas data being retarded within the stream of photons reaching your IHD.

So unlikely is this selective data-retardation that it is necessary to stipulate a test interval of 24 hours - a unit of time so vast in comparison to the speed of light, that a sufficiently strong signal would reach an IHD placed at a distance over four times greater than the orbit of Pluto!

 

Who are we, mere customers, to challenge the thought processes by which an esteemed Moderator bends the laws of mathematics, space and time?

Where would OVO be if its Social Media Team were constrained to operate according to common rules of logic?

What despair would haunt you should you fail to close the distance between your  IHD and Electricity Meter, and thus miss the miracle of gas data appearing upon its display?!

 

We may be sure that the entire company of the Forum waits with baited breath until the 24 hours has elapsed and Amy’s attention is once more drawn towards the status of your IHD.

And until that morrow, let us cast off all doubts and application of physical laws. Let us forsake the notion that we exist within four dimensions of space-time, the Standard Model or string-theory.

Let us stand with that Great Company of Seers, who are OVO’s chosen Team of Moderators, and grasp the moment offered to us - to see as Amy sees, and by sheer determination in the face of all that is reasonable, combine our collective presumption in pursuit of implausible solutions to your stated problem.

 

The best course of action, @RichardOsborn, whilst the team investigate, is to place the IHD as closely to the electricity meter as possible for at least 24 hours, this will help the signal strength between the IHD and the meter. 

Thanks! 

 

Thanks @BenS_OVO 

Fingers crossed.

@BenS_OVO @Tim_OVO @Amy_OVO 

Hello

I now have a new electricity meter (7 Nov) which is communicating with my IHD but still not sending readings to OVO (not that I can see anyway). Can one of you have a look at this for me please?

Thanks

Neil

@Tim_OVO @BenS_OVO  

Is anyone at OVO listening?? Please see my post above.

Where is the reply to my email - it is now several days late. So much for 48 hours turnaround.

Getting really annoyed now.

 

Sending email now.

Thanks.

Hello

I was originally booked to have my smart meters installed On 10 June but when the guy came out it was raining heavily so he couldn't do it, which was fair enough. It was rebooked for 17 June and went ahead as planned - only problem was it couldn't be commissioned on that day as he couldn't connect to OVO servers (or something like that). Eventually got a commissioning date of 5 Aug and I booked an engineer to call. 5 Aug came and went and no engineer. Called OVO and it turns out that it hadn't been booked in properly by the person doing it and the engineer request hadn't been sent to the commissioning company. Very annoying. Called OVO and told there were no appointments and I should call at the end of August. Seriously? Called and got a date for 26 Sep. Guy came out and commissioned the meter. Gas and electric readings were sent to OVO for a few days and then it dropped down to just gas readings. I can also not use the IHD for electric which is very annoying as I like the "Now" function. That brings my story up to date, trying to get these meters to do what they're supposed to do - something they did briefly. Oh, forgot to say that although the gas us sending daily readings and is showing half hourly on my account, for previous days usage the IHD displays usage in £s as the same figure as kWh so is useless for previous days. I'm hoping that @BenS_OVO can help.

Hey @neilje12

I'm really sorry you're having a bit of a time of it with your elec readings.

Let me have a look once I'm back at the office tomorrow and I'll see what the issue is. At the very least we can add some up to date reads to your billing account.

I'll PM you shortly for your details.

Ben

Thanks @Transparent for your in depth reply, you seem to really know your stuff and honestly I’m appreciative of your responses.

I have one question I’m sure you can help me with. I read somewhere else on this forum that the smart gas meter communicates to the electricity meter, then the electricity meter sends the information out to both my IHD and off to OVO eventually. If this is the case then why to this day can I see my current gas usage on both my IHD and on my OVO app but I cannot see any of my readings for my electricity for the past few weeks? My IHD won’t even give me an option to view electricity anymore it’s just stuck on gas. Surely if the meters are set up to function in this way then my information is being sent out but only for the gas so I would assume my electricity meter does in fact have communication. It’s clocking the usage correctly on the meter display. Is there anything I can do myself with my meter buttons? Is there any kind of re-connect button sequence I can press?

Like I said I can can see my usage on the electricity meter itself but now I have smart meters I have NO option on the app or online so submit my readings anymore, and OVO are not receiving my readings from the meter automatically so how do I tell OVO my usage so I’m billed correctly?

there must be something I can do to fix this

The identical issue I am facing.

As the title suggests, my new electric smart meter, an Aclara SGM1414-B does not report my electricity readings to either OVO or my IHD. It worked for exactly 4 days. Gas seems fine (although the daily usage figures are totally wrong and seem to be mirrored from my KwH usage).

So the electric meter is able to transmit my gas readings and must therefore be working ok in that respect. I would therefore suggest that this meter is defective in terms of producing readings. It's a common issue as I found out by Googling it.

OVO want me to wait 90 days "just in case" it somehow rectifies itself which I think we all know it won't.

My question is, is there a way I can reset it myself using the buttons on the front. I can't wait 3 months for this probably simple issue to be resolved by OVO who move at a pace which someone else described as "glacial".

Erm @PennyLane - I posted a message here where you can see the different flash rates which @Tim_OVO is referring to.

And for his final point, the mobile phone signal you're interested in is the one for the O2 network. You could have a brilliant signal for Vodafone, but still have problems with your Smart Meter.