Ivie ivie Bud | in-Home Display Your Smart Meter

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It feels to me like it would have been better for Chameleon to delay launching the device until they had more features ready. Every 30 minutes the gas meter sends data to the communication hub over the HAN (Home Area Network). Oh, and I’m also required to mention that the products and advice I mention in this guide are not supplied, endorsed or directly/officially supported by OVO Energy or any energy supplier, so they cannot provide assistance if you have a problem.

This is where CADs come in as they use the IHD data and therefore you can see the data more quickly.The ivie Bud was launched early this year as part of Chameleon’s replacement In-Home Display (IHD) service in support of the continuing smart meter rollout.

Because the CAD features aren’t active, they never really talk to anyone and I’ve verified this using tcpdump in my UniFi Dream Machine, Exploud. In comparison, I’ve done this walk many times before with the Kecleon Brothers and it’s always worked fine because both of them have an internal rechargeable battery.If you have SMETS2 meters, you definitely can’t use an SSE SET and if you have SMETS1, you’re probably better off with a different IHD model anyway. Is there any way I can have separate electricity and gas feeds into Smart Things so I can have separate feeds into Home Assistant. We use cookies to enhance your experience, for analytics and to show you offers tailored to your interests on our site and third party sites. Maybe they want Ivie bud to be sold second-hand, but they should allow a re-activation with the same MPAN at least. 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.

Usually the data is collected shortly after midnight and loaded into suppliers systems in the early morning, so your data should be ready for viewing by 9am. There's nothing worse than feeling a draught down your neck, or in the room, at any time of year, especially in the winter.There also appears to be (or going to be) the ability to link to Smartthings app and access the data on mobile or tablet and presumably remotely as well. The communications hub or comms hub sitting immediately onto top of your electricity meter is responsible for receiving and sending all data. In the UK, the optical port is also disabled for security reasons as well while the meter is in the field. I find it ironic that the meter can quite happily communicate with a telephone mast 2 miles away yet can't speak to its little display box in the next room. If you’re in this situation, I would generally recommend getting in touch with your supplier in the first instance.

It’s totally noise free and the company states it’s up to 70% less costyl than traditional heating systems. That was the bit thats somewhat confusing to me as I couldn't really see how just connecting via wifi would work without getting something done behind the scenes by the energy provider(s) (or piggybacking off an IHD) as you rightly say the HAN requires zigbee. To set up and actually use ivie Bud, you have to stay connected to both at once so the only thing that made this possible is because my long range Ubiquiti UniFi U6-LR access point Mega Exploud can broadcast a Wi-Fi signal powerful enough to blast through 50 metres of fire rated walls.It is a extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol, designed for constrained devices, low power, and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Over eight million households on certain benefits and tax credits will receive their second cost of living payment from today (Tuesday 31 October). You’d also decrease your home’s carbon emissions by around 650kg of carbon dioxide a year, the same as driving from Exeter to Hull eight times. You’re supposed to create an account to use this device and it then joins your Home Area Network and pairs to the meters by itself afterwards - this is possible because of Chameleon being a DCC Other User, so your supplier doesn’t need to get involved.