And that would be our smart meter. You remember me getting one a little bit after a while ago for the simple purpose of making life a tad less stressful for my little nest of vipers when I leave this mortal coil? Well, about fifteen days ago the little display thingy refused to connect with the smart{?} meter.
Over the days I done did everything recommended to establish a connection, all to no avail.
Anyhoo, yesterday I had a visit from B. Gas for the annual boiler service so I obviously asked wot was my problem. His reply? I was just one of many hundreds of thousands of smart{?} meters that they’d lost contact with. I say again, smart? So meter problem not the little display thingy then.
His advice was to call B. Gas just to add my meter to the growing list of meters wot they’ve lost their connection with.
Thus this morning was lost to hanging on the telephone listening to shabby choons and finally talking with a nice Indian lady. This conversation took quite some time as she had to slowly decode and translate my questions and I done did likewise with her answers.
End result? They’re working on the connection problems, wait a pair of weeks and if there’s still no connection they’ll be in touch regards a possible engineer visit. Your call has been recorded for training purposes. That would be two way language training, right?
Thus, at present, I’m back were I was before with dumb meters and having to submit readings. Isn’t modern technology such a wonderous thing eh? Put not all/any of your trust in computers.
However, must look for a bit o’ loop mixing tech after listening to wot’s below.
Quote; Mike Trout.
"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."
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I bet it's a Net Zero plan. Soon enough a minister will stand up and say -
"Look how effective smart meters are. Figures from the meters tell us that thousands of people have already used them to cut their gas and electricity consumption to zero."
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