I’m using the Hildebrand Glow (DCC) integration to provide DCC Sourced smart electricity meter Usage data to the grid consumption in the Energy dashboard (and gas) .
The daily figures in the Energy dashboard for both electricity and gas match the figures in the Glow app pretty well. So this indicates that the source data is OK.
The hourly gas figures in the Energy dashboard are also pretty good.
But the hourly electricity figures are all over the place which indicates that there’s a problem with the dashboard.
Is anyone else seeing this?
This is a known issue with any usage of the central smart meter database. Your meter will not always successfully update to the database and therefore timed interval usage will be off.
If you want accurate hourly data, you need to get a CAD that will allow integration with HA. I have a Hildebrand Glow CAD and this connects to the smart meter zigbee network, sends data via wifi to Hildebrand and then the integration pulls data from their servers. It has the odd timing diff but generally pretty accurate on a 15 min update interval.
The Glow CAD can send data via local MQTT to HA in real time. There is a custom component for HA. I tried for ages to get the DCC one working reliably but never did so just bought the Glow CAD as mentioned above.
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Thanks for your replies @msp1974 and @Holdestmade.
Good to know that the problem is not just mine.
I know about the Glow CAD, but unfortunately it won’t work with my meters.
(Smets1 with a Trilliant hub. There’s a known problem that Trilliant Comms Hubs will not accept instructions from DCC Other Users.)
Very annoying!
I had the same meter and problems, Octopus to replaced the meters to new SMETS2 ones. One of the main reasons I left British Gas - they were not interested in fixing / replacing the meters (although they did get upgraded by DCC and worked for a little while, albeit unreliably)
What are the options these days? I see that the GLOW CAD is not available any more. I’ve got a ivie Bud - the device info is ivie Bud 1.4 CAD 2.5 - but there does not seem to be a way to get live meter data out of this into HA.
I’ve got the ivie Bub app on my Android Phone and the Hildebrand Glow (DCC) Integration but the data and in particular, reliability of data, is pretty poor.
Aby ideas to improve this via the ivie Bud or DCC integration?
Are CT clamps and a Shelly EM or similar the best way to go?
Works for me for a few years and see that it is still available for purchase on the Glow website. Why do you think it is not available?
Same here. Been working great for years. It has shown as sold out for a while now, might be worth dropping them a line and seeing if and when they are stocking more.
There are a few listed in eBay.
The DCC integration was always unreliable for me, that made me buy the glow cad.
I’ve also got an Octopus mini and that works great, but you need to be with Octopus obviously.
I swear it was available. But you are right. Sold out
They operate a wait list for the CAD devices. Send them an email and ask what the current state is. I had to wait about four weeks for mine.
I had an email yesterday from Glowmarkt to say they will have more in stock next week
Hi there. What did you do to get Octopus to replace your meter? I have a SMETS1/Trilliant install and ‘Zak’ at Octopus is refusing to upgrade my meter despite me saying they have obligations for me to connect a third part my device under the smart meter obligations and electricity act, fobbed off every time. Very annoying as I went with Octopus in the first place to eventually use a mini or my own device!
Mike
Nothing, they said they were swapping them out when I joined them
I have the same issue in that Octopus refuse to upgrade my old BG SMETS1 meters, as they can read them, but I can’t get any data from them. The Octopus Mini won’t work with SMETS 1 and the Hildebrand Glow integration has been removed from HA, so now I have no gas data at all.
I said to Octopus that they were obliged under the Smart Meter act to allow me connection to a third party device, but they ignored me
Someone has taken ownership and created a new repo. It was updated yesterday and now shows up in HACS.
Do you know if the ‘new’ version is a direct replacement with the same sensor names, so that I could uninstall the abandoned one and just install this new one, and everything should continue to work? Where can I find this new one?
HACS
It shows up as updated three days ago