Ivie ivie Bud | in-Home Display Your Smart Meter

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By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar,sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws. Sure thing! It’s definitely a service we can provide here. 🙂 We’ve got lots of smart meter model guides listed here. If you can’t find a guide that matches your meter type, please post photos of your current meters, Comms Hub and (if you have one) IHD. We’ll be able to use these photos to figure out what you’ve got and can then advise you which options are likely to work. We don’t have a magic crystal ball or x-ray vision though sadly, so there’s no other way for us to identify your meters without photos or a description of the meters. Four hours in, I finally get to play with the device properly, but unfortunately this was short lived and I’ll explain why further down. The short version is that from my hour or two of using the ivie Bud, it was ultimately no different to the IHD6 other than having a built-in temperature sensor and no battery. If you already know how the IHD6 works, then you know how the ivie Bud works.

Tesco Mobile is to start charging new and recently joining pay-monthly customers to use their mobiles in Europe from 2024.We spoke to Lucy Joss from the Insights team at Energy Saving Trust, to find out the gadgets worth buying, as well as more top tips for saving money on electricity and gas bills. Best energy-saving devices at a glance Hugo is a free app which allows you to see yearly, monthly, weekly and daily bar charts for electricity and gas. You can set a budget as a challenge to spend less and reduce energy wastage. If I could change my gas meter (EDMI GS-60B) to change to a kWh display instead of cubic meters it might solve the problem. Anyone know if this is possible? It may be possible in the future according to one of my sources. They prefer not to be named but they’re a very reliable one. I also genuinely think ivie Bud has potential here. It won’t suit everyone, but I’m pretty sure there’ll be someone out there who’ll get hold of it and love it. The design of the device is excellent just like the IHD6 (and therefore IHD7) that the ivie Bud is based on, and the menus and screens are well thought out. It’s just a huge shame that Raichu is such a secure meter, otherwise I’m sure I’d have loved ivie Bud.

Your smart metering system is a complex system of several parts, including the smart meter, the communications hub and the In-Home Display. As Chameleon Technology only provides the In-Home Display, and as each energy supplier has different smart metering equipment, solutions and policies, Chameleon Technology is not able to provide direct assistance to customers with In-Home Display issues. It took a few days for mine .. I think they use Royal Mail and of course, there’s a few delays at present I also have given up with Smart Things but admittedly haven't tried for over a year. My experience with it wasn't great (flaky and limited) so I tend to use HA integrations if available or MQTT (I prefer Hildebrand via MQTT and node-red).The NCSC also enforces a rule as part of the specifications that there cannot be any way to hook up anything to a Smart Meter locally outside of the ZigBee HAN. Even the Comms Hub uses a “wired” connection to the electric meter for power only, data is still sent between them over the HAN. Understanding energy usage and how to reduce it has been a difficult task for most households. With the ivie app, users can easily understand how and when they’re using energy in the home with activity breakdowns, reports and personal energy-saving tips and challenges. With the need for action on energy consumption and decarbonisation more important than ever, the hope is that services like SmartThings Energy can help galvanise consumer interest in smart meters by empowering users to take action based on their energy usage data more easily. Chameleon’s technology enables smart meter data to be securely and privately populated in the SmartThings app. Making this data easily accessible to consumers will allow them to make meaningful changes surrounding energy in the home and ultimately may contribute to a lower carbon footprint. Chameleon Technology furthers its commitment to empowering individuals to make smarter energy choices Your IHD receives data from the comms hub mounted on the top of your electricity meter more frequently. Electricity meter data is received every 10 seconds and the gas every 30 minutes. The gas meter is battery powered so the communications frequency is kept low to improve battery life.

The IVIE Bud looks to be a modified Chameleon IHD/CAD 6. The IHD side connects to the HAN (look at the icon in the top left corner of the display) and the CAD connects to your home wifi (fan symbol in the top right corner of the display). The CAD then connects to SmartThings. Clearly, for the device to work it has to remain with the range of the Zigbee HAN network. Is there any way I can have separate electricity and gas feeds into Smart Things so I can have separate feeds into Home Assistant. I don’t understand why it all has to be lumped together??? Access to your meter readings and more detailed consumption data from your Smart Meter was not a priority for the Smart Metering Programme, so it has taken a few years for services to become available. The concept from the beginning was for third parties to provide Consumer Access Devices (CAD) to allow customers to retrieve their own data. The only other use case which I can’t recommend the device at all, is if you’re on Pay As You Go and need to be able to enter UTRN Top-Up Codes if you go off-supply. The ivie Bud will lose power if it’s unplugged from the mains, so you’ll want to keep your existing IHD charged for this purpose or enter the codes directly on your meter.The ivie Bud is your helpful energy hero. See, understand and control how your home uses energy easier than ever with this beautifully designed touchscreen display. The ivie Bud shows you real-time energy information, so you can make spot-on decisions on the spot. The comms hub uses the Home Area Network (HAN) to talk to the electricity, gas and IHD (In Home Display) devices. To save battery power the gas meter communicates only every half-hour and so the comms hub stores a copy of the gas meter data for querying when required. This copy is known as the gas mirror or Gas Proxy (GPF).