I've got a hack to get Rocky Mountain Power meter broadcasts into my Home Assistant system, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had success decoding water & gas meters here? I'm pretty sure they are both radio based.
Seriously. I have money, I am offering to pay extra for a supplier to come out and remove my SMETS1 electricity and gas meters and fit SMETS2 ones so that I don’t have to fuck about with meter readings and can get very frequent energy usage stats. But no one will do it! It’s not even “You’d be at the end of the waiting list after we’ve fitted everyone who doesn’t have a smart meter at all and wants one”, it’s just “we wouldn’t upgrade your meter”.
OK, so how do I actually get fucking ‘smart’ functionality out of my smart meter? “The technology hasn’t been developed yet for other providers to read different SMETS1 meters”. Right, is that technology being worked on? Are you actively developing it now and have an estimated completion date? Or am I just fucked forevermore for being an early smart meter adopter?
“We hope to be able to read some SMETS1 meters by summer 2019”. Define ‘some’. If I give you my serial number or whatever can you tell me if you expect to be able to read mine in 6 months? “Only after you sign up with us, then we’ll have more information in our database”. At which point you’ve locked me into a 12 to 18 month contract you shower of bastards!
#firstworldproblems
So i bought my house in February of 2021 and discovered a small gas leak (a connection in the basment was not completely tight). In august i got a bill from my electric company that they had gotten a actual reading (it has been estimated for two years according to that bill) and said i owed $800. I called them and they said they sent my complaint to the back office to be resolved and just pay the usage on bills and they would freeze the account so i wouldnt get my power and gas shutoff. Now its a couple months later and i get a notice that my power and gas will be shutoff on 12/02 if i dont pay. I called again and they said they sent my problem to the back office again. I was worried it was the same thing as last time so i called the next day and asked for a supervisor, after a hold the guy i talked to said it was more complicated than they thought and someone would call me immediately. This was Wednesday before thanksgiving so the office is closed until monday but im running out of time. What do i do? Should I just pay it and be done? Or can i get it fixed or at least reduced in some way? So far theyve only sent me a payment plan offer but thats no help.
Update: they called back and fixed the problem after I called the public utilities commission is dont owe any of it now. Thanks everyone!
Customers got one 100A generator and two small houses close together. Each has a meter main. One is 100A and the other 200A.
At first thought, I thought id run the output from the gen to some taps with 100A wire and then shoot one set to panel one and the other to panel two. One of the houses would get the Automatic transfer switch and the other would get an interlock kit.
This way when the power goes out the gen kicks on and house 1 gets power house 2 would have to flip the interlock.
I'm sure there's a reason i shouldn't do this. Parallel neutrals etc.
Does anyone have any ideas other than two transfer switches and a master-slave setup?
Hi r/apple,
I wanted to build a simple and minimalistic app for myself, where I can track my electricity/water/heating/etc... consumptions.
I spent several months and my first app is live on the App Store now, so you can try it too.
You can find it on the App Store at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meterable/id1584696105
I'll be really happy if anyone else finds it useful.
It's a free version with a basic set of features
- Statistics
- Groups
- Dark Mode
- Unlimited readings
- Tips and Tricks
as well as Pro in-app purchase for advanced features or just to support development
- Unlimited meters
- Multi-tariff meters (e.g Day/Night tariff)
- Reading reminders
- Import from CSV
- Backup and restore
I'll also give away 10 promo codes for the lifetime pro version.
All you need to do is comment, upvote and I will pick randomly in 24 hours.
Just set everything up (carrots, drippers, reservoirs, lines) [FINALLY] and meter is reading 23mbar.
I’m now wondering if I turn the blumat system on OR if I should wait until the reading rises to a range where I want blumats to maintain THEN turn it on and dial everything in.
Can’t find anywhere if you should wait until you’re at your desired mbar level THEN turn on and dial the setup in OR if you should just turn everything on and adjust until you get to your mbar level. Clearly it’s too wet so I’d imagine turning it on is obviously goin to make it wetter or be a waste since blumats works to maintain what you got and I don’t wanna mess up the conditioning and have to redo anything.
I’m thinkin I should wait until the mbar level rises to where I want THEN turn everything on and work on dialing it in.
Edit: side question.. caps are back ordered. Is it bad if I turn on my high powered light constantly beating on the display? Wondering if I should cover it up when I turn the lights on..
Has anyone in the UK had any luck with accessing their smart meter readings
I'm currently with Octopus energy, they have an api which I'm hitting to get the data - however, it's always a day behind, meaning that today I can only get yesterday's readings - nothing live
I've stumbled across RTL-SDR - but can't find any info to say if the smart meters used in the UK support this
Of course in the beginning, when you're first learning core vocab, and struggling through graded readers and simple manga, reading feels very effortful and energy-consuming pretty much the entire time. But when did you notice it start to feel more effortless to read? That simply looking at a Japanese sentence could cause your brain to turn on with meaning automatically, without you having to strain at all?
About how far into studying (in hours or years) would you say you were, before you started to notice that happening? And did you actually consciously notice it and go "wow this is really happening, my brain is just doing this on its own!" or did you just let that milestone slip by lol.
Eager to hear your experiences!
EDIT: Since people are thinking I'm asking for advice here, I just want to clarify that I'm not lol. I can read with automaticity very often for most books/manga now after about 5 years. basically if i'm interested in what i'm reading, i'm in an effortless-feeling flow most of the time, until I get to a word or phrase I haven't encountered or don't have much exposure to. I'm asking for other people to share your experiences/when you started to have that kind of experience with japanese (if you have yet).
I was just wondering if anyone else finds this suspicious or not. I had a man come to the door today asking to check my gas and electric readings and said he was with British Gas. I hadn’t heard anything about a visit so I said no to be safe as I was on my own. Only as I said bye and was closing the door I noticed the man was wearing a hi vis jacket with ‘Morrison’s’ on the chest pocket, despite claiming to be with BG. I then checked and we are not even with BG but a different energy provider. All in all it spooked me a bit as I was home alone. Does anyone know if this is perfectly legit / nothing to worry about or if this seems like he was trying to gain access for another reason? Thank you!
ETA: British Gas are not our supplier, but I only realised this after I said goodbye.
I have a shelly 3EM hooked up to my main electrical panel. It works amazingly well, and is tracking very closely right on what my utility company is billing.
However, I'm running into an issue with the Utiltiy Meter in HA. Basically, the energy usage tracks ok for a while, but then suddenly jumps to the total electricity used.
For example, if I call the "reset" service, the utility meter goes to 0kWh. Then, for hours it will track the usage just fine. e.g. I can see it slowly tick up from 0 to 4kWh over the course of a day. But then, it will all of a sudden jump to 600kWh. The 600kWh is the total energy usage report from the shelly device since installation back in October.
Here is an image showing what's happening
My main question Does anyone know what might cause this "jumping" behaviour?
The Technical Details
For the shelly, I have a sensor that combines the total energy use from each phase. It works fine from what I can tell and matches what's reported in the Shelly web interface. It's defined as follows:
template:
- sensor:
- name: "Home Energy Usage"
unique_id: total_home_energy_usage
state_class: total_increasing
unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
state: >
{% set channelA = states('sensor.shellyem3_8caab561f9c4_channel_a_energy') | float %}
{% set channelB = states('sensor.shellyem3_8caab561f9c4_channel_b_energy') | float %}
{{ (channelA + channelB) }}
Then, my Utility Meter is set up as follows:
utility_meter:
daily_energy:
source: sensor.home_energy_usage
cycle: daily
tariffs:
- peak
- midpeak
- offpeak
I should note that I have automations for the tariffs to change, and those are working with no issue.
I have an analog rotary-dial gas meter (Honeywell AC-250) modified to transmit the reading remotely using an Aclara 3000 Gas MTU model number 3131-010-rbs2. I would like to read it using rtlamr but I'm afraid it's not compatible because this datasheet indicates that the signal is encrypted. Does anyone have experience reading an Aclara MTU?
For those of you who are tenants in a multi-unit building with PSEG electric, who schedules the meter readings for your building: you (or another tenant) or the landlord/property manager?
It would also be helpful to know how many units are in your building and if the landlord/property manager lives in the building.
I'm Type 2. Only on Metformin 500 2x a day. I forgot my morning dose of Metformin today and went to the Fair tonight. I had a corn dog and half a funnel cake. I was walking around for about a mile so i didn't expect to spike quite this bad. I knew it would be high but I haven't been over 250 since i was diagnosed 6 months ago. I don't feel bad at all. Only thirsty.
I usually get really bad symptoms (headaches, blurry vision, dehydrated feeling) at 180 or so.
TL:DR : is 360 an emergency? should i go to the ER?
Thanks!
