Smart meters aint so smart..

peak usage, as my previous 'dumb' meter

retailer by the service provider.

If smart meters are so smart, why can't they tell the time of day? Half the year, mine is an hour out.

Even Gill Bates can get this right most of the time. :-) With all the Windows PCs I am running, I can't remember the last time I had to manually intervene. Has to be many years.

Cheers Don...

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Oh Magoo you've done it again. Been a while since I've heard that, so I thought I would throw it in.

They run on real time.

knuk.. knuk.. knuk

It could simply be an issue to do with the type of meter, or more probably, whoever failed to program it correctly.

While I am on on Smartpower myself, because I have PV/grid inverter system, my meter is a bi-directional electronic smart meter, and it displays ALL possible tariffs in its display cycle. By that I mean;

I am only interested in 4 and 9 but the others are displayed even though I am not on a Smartpower tariff. I have never seen the time display incorrect and I read the meter every morning when I am picking up my paper from the front lawn.

The meter is a Landis & Gyr EM3300

: :Although I'm on a dual tariff, my new 'Smart' meter does not display the :off peak usage, as my previous 'dumb' meter did. We need to rely on the :accuracy of the data provided to our electricity retailer by the service :provider. : :See this post (not mine).. :

So your meter adjusts for daylight saving time then? I believe most meters don't, which means that during summer time the OP cycle is actually midnight to 8:00 am by the clock. My previous meter didn't and neither does the new 'not-so-smart' one. I'd be interested to hear from others about this.

MIne is the PRI i-credit 500.

Your meter may be one of these:

In the section about the EM-1000 meter it states that the time will always be EST, no daylight saving adjustments are made.

"Please note that the meter will always operate on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). There will be no change to the displayed time due to Daylight Saving Time."

It would be easier for the energy supplier to adjust the tarrif times rather than adjust every meter during DST.

There doesn't appear to be any way to display the off peak usage, and no info on the RS232 or optical protocol to allow you to interrogate it to get the usage profile.

"Please note that previous electronic meters were programmed to display Time of Use tariff registers. The P1 meter will not display this information. Time of Use tariffs will be calculated from the load profile data that the MDA will download from the P1 meter."