I've been asking this question along with when can I have one for some
years. it seems the only plan at present is to get at the reading after its
been to your energy company. This seems to be really counter intuitive as
if, for example you want to turn things on and off at high load times then
the thing would need to signal your appliances somehow, and I'd not want the
bunglers at EDF to be in charge of this even if it just went to them and
aback again.
The main reason why I cannot have a smart meter is because they say at
least, because economy 7 is not supported on current meters as the want to
move away from several meters. However in my view all they need to do is a
calculation on the readings in real time, after all a simple time switch at
each house is aallstorage heaters will need. Even now my normal electricity
usage at the economy hours is charged at the lower rate, not just heaters
and water. The mechanical switching from one meter to another seems archaic
and stupid but its done so the ready can just read off two readings. In an
electronic world this should be simple to do on any computer with a clock.

Brian

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"Ron" wrote in message
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I have just had my electricity and gas meters replaced with smart meters
which have now made my excel spread sheet redundant and I no longer need to
read my meters every day.

However I will still update my spread sheet, I just won't need to go out
in the rain to read my meter, just to the kitchen where the smart meter
display is situated.

Then I thought, is there a way to get the smart meter display to
automatically update my spread sheet or for me to view the output from the
smart meters directly on my computer, by, in some way, capturing the
output from the smart meters?

I have a wireless router but it does not show anything about the smart
meter LAN.