Electricity Price Cap Increase - do you use your smart meter - LOOP a free app to take the readings

[Adrian Essex]

I've just asked E-On Next for an "In House Display" (IHD) to show my usage of electricity as it happens. They refused. Apparently one has to ask as soon as one moves in. Which I had done, when they refused. And the meter is apparently SMETS1, which they do not support. This is called customer Service.

In conducting a search for an IHD I could buy I discovered Loop, a free app to connect up to your smart meter. And as far as I can tell it is free, I haven't been asked for any money yet. And it did connect to my antique SMETS1 smart meter.

Maybe you'd like to try it too.

 

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