Thank you so so much for this video. I have been searching everywhere for a manual to read all the codes on the E355 meter and none was available. Your video is so helpful for me to understand the reading on my smart meter.

How to read real-time info from one of these meters: (yes, Jamie has shown how to read accumulated power).. press the button about 3 times until "ALT2" is displayed, then press and hold for about 3 seconds. It should display the Volts (about 240) and you can cycle to Amps - and see what you're actually using moment by moment. Plus a whole lotta other gobbledy gook. It will go back to normal display after about a minute. Thx Jamie for putting this vid up - not at all surprised that nobody can find usage info, and power distros and retailers are all playing dumb and pointing the finger at each other: as long as they can charge us for power they dont care and dont have to.

Thank you Jamie. You are so helpful!

Thanks heaps for your time to sort this . Just had one of these fitted and the installer did not know how it worked.....

Thank You so much. This is the olny info i came across for this meter. I have just had this meter installed with my solar system.

Thank you.. finally some clarity on how to read this meter. There’s a feeling of distrust when the power companies don’t explain the meter operation. The technician who installed it said that he wasn’t allowed to teach the customer when asked. My Fronius Gen 24 Inverter has an excellent App that shows the power management but also understanding the Smart meter is important.

Thanks for the video. It helped a lot. Although only fitted 10 days ago, and no bill yet received, register 16 (presumably 18 on your meter) on my meter appears to be cumulative total power produced by the solar system. This means that register 16 minus register 4 is the total solar power used locally with the balance exported, which is displayed as a cumulative total on register 4.

Thank you very much Jamie.

Thanks mate, Much appreciated. It definitely is helpful.

Thankyou. I have this one fitted. The electrician was only able to tell me that the left pointing arrow shows exporting to the grid and the right is importing FROM the grid…. Or vice versa!. Must look when it’s totally dark.

Thanks, same here, i couldn't work it out and the solar installer just pissed off and left me to try and work the icloud app out ! That's still not working but thanks, this is the only thing i have seen on these meters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much.

Thank you so much for this. Needless to say our latest bill was an estimate and hundreds of dollars over what it should be so, queue self reading the meter ... bit of a joke but with your video I now know what is in my pics :-D

If I had realised how complicated this new meter was, I would not have let them change it. The old one was so easy to read and keep a check on.

Hi, they installed this for me today and i used to have two old meters, one for general and a dedicated one for offpeak (hotwater) how can I be sure they connected it as a controlled load/offpeak reading?

Thanks for the video but going by the comments how can the usage get a 100-200% increase in bill ???

Thanks Jamie. Your video has answered most of my L+G meter questions. I have a register "16", not an "18" visible on my display. Any thoughts what this might be?

I have this meter installed after solar panels installation. I only have 01,02,15,16. What's 16 for? Will I get other numbers when my retailer (in 16 days) knows that the meter is changed?

Thankyou so much for this. Would you happen to know what that green button is for?

Had one of these turn up at my house today , my question is WHY?? Previous one was digital seemed to work fine , am getting a credit every month (with solar credits) instead of a bill , will see what happens after this (improvement?) thanks for the video ,

Mate I have a question I noticed on the sticker it says you have control load 1 off peak but notice the control load 2 light was flashing on the metre is that correct because I have control load 2 but only the control load 1 light flashes I also have a solar hot water heater and I have noticed now that the weather has cooled down im running out of hot water much more than I used to before they change the metre my query is have they accidentally connected me to control load 1 when I'm paying for control load 2

Thanks for the explanation mate. We too have solar hot water system and now the booster only works in off peak times on controlled load which means by days end we run out of hot water. Origin not helpful at all.

Hello, thank you for the useful video. Is the coding readings 03, 15, 21 supposed to be the instantaneous readings (how much kWh coming from the grid into your house at the current time) or is it cumulative (how much total kWh coming from the grid into your house given a period of time) if so what time period? I've seen some people say that it calculates total kWh coming from the grid since the meter was installed but I'm not entirely sure.

Hi james, I have the E350. Im guessing its similar to the E355. I don't have solar or peak off peak differences, so the only reading I need is the total usage on the day I take my photo of the meter reading. Like the odometer reading. The total I have used since I had the meter connected. So just to be sure it's number 3 gives me the total usage?

You said 22 is solar exported to the grid at night? How is that possible?

Somebody can tell me please the flashing arrow ( 2 of them) what the f....means.Thank you

And how can one bypass this meter, or earn free units?????