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Jeez. It really *is* a turd. 🙄

Once upon a time, there was a 'great' Britain. It had great british industries, and was respected around the world. It was proud of its history, and of its heritage, both of which it defended and displayed openly.

Then, in almost the blink of an eye, it was all gone.

People 'woke' up to a brave new world.

How long has Rolls Royce got le...

Ah right.

I guess smarts aren't so bad, but somehow it just grates that we no longer have a choice to stick with simpler proven technology.

Anam, I am being switched to a smart meter by default, I don't have a choice. The switching device, separate from the old spinning wheel thing, becomes obsolete because the radio signal that operates it is being done away with. The solution is to replace it with a smart meter that doesn't need the radio switch as it records consumption continuously (or is it in half hour slots?)

Here is my list of suppliers

Here's the Jaguar video, for those that haven't seen it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng

and their upcoming model

The spinning wheel meter must be like mine then. You'll get a message soon telling you it's past its sell by date no doubt.

But if Jeremy's answer works, that'll stop a smart meter being forced on us; -- until the rules are changed to counter that too.

Anam, there is the old style meter that has a wheel spinning round in it, I think that has been there for 35,plus s years. Them there is a small white box with digital display which AFAR was replaced some time ago. If I look back through my spreadsheet monthly records I could work out when that was. That is the dual rate switching device.

Is your meter from when the storage heaters were there Guy? I'd imagine it must be past its cert' date too if so. I've got a paoer sticker on mine that says 92. But there must be something in its serial number too I would think.

Octopus email to me doesn't suggest the meter itself is obsolete in my case. They say that the time switching is by the BBC long wave time signal, which they say is stopping in 30 June next year. So presumably this would be the same for any digital eco 7 meter. Unless this is somehow tied into the North - South difference that Anam linked to. That was saying smart meters in the north link to a ra...

Excellent, thanks for the info Jeremy. I was under the impression analogue meters were no longer made/supplied in the UK.

Do you have the link? I'll ready my response for when they ask me again.

For now they're stalled until after xmas.