Mr Huge Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 How do I read my linky meter? All I want is my consommation since the last reading, but I can't find anything that resembles that, or anything that looks like a kWh reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckett Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 [quote user="Mr Huge"] How do I read my linky meter? All I want is my consommation since the last reading, but I can't find anything that resembles that, or anything that looks like a kWh reading.[/quote]I'm not sure you can read the thing itself, though open (as always) to correction. As I understand it (eg from here: https://particulier.edf.fr/en/home/contract-and-consumption/meter/linky-meter.html), it sends data to EDF and they do the sums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I have never managed to obtain an online up-to-date reading, which I imagined was one of the benefits .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Have a look at this link. It shows you how to use the Linky. I checked our usage online every single day during the confinement - bored out of my mind. I also check our usage in our new home each day. I can now tell you exactly how many kwh's I use doing laundry, ironing, using the cooktop and/or oven.Love the Linky.It really is quite easy once you get the habit of it.https://www.fournisseurs-electricite.com/guides/compteur/linky/mode-emploi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomme Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 This web page https://particulier.edf.fr/en/home/contract-and-consumption/meter/linky-meter.html short link https://tinyurl.com/y3s85tathas the instructions for single- and three-phase Linky meters in English towards the bottomhttps://tinyurl.com/y4vktrwyhttps://tinyurl.com/y47euzy6You can download an app for your smartphone https://particulier.edf.fr/fr/accueil/offres/choisir-edf/appli-edf-et-moi.html but it takes time for it to be set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 The problem with the app is that you have to be near the meter to get it to start, whereas I am in a flat where the meter is inaccesible so I can't do that.I had hoped to be able to read online what I can't see physically, as I can do with my water meter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 No smart meter for me where I live but I bought one of these and it paid for itself in the first couple of months.https://www.geotogether.com/consumer/product/minim-energy-monitor/Sensor clips over the incoming live cable and then talks wirelessly to the display. With a little tweaking of the fine tune facility it reads within 1% of the main meter. Always on and easily monitored, no need for smartphone apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
napoleon Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 [quote user="Mr Huge"]How do I read my linky meter? All I want is my consommation since the last reading, but I can't find anything that resembles that, or anything that looks like a kWh reading. [/quote]dI assume you are close to the meter and able to touch the controls. I have a three phase Linky but hope that the basic actions are the same as single phase. If I want to see my consumption I press the + sign button and immediately the reading that appears on the display is the total units used, just like a traditional meter. Further presses run through several other parameters including the present rate of consumption. I do need to write down the reading each time to monitor the increase in usage. Of course it may be quite different for a single phase Linky. Alistair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 napoleon wrote the following post at 05 Sep 2020 23:20:If I want to see my consumption I press the + sign button and immediately the reading that appears on the display is the total units used, just like a traditional meter. Further presses run through several other parameters including the present rate of consumption. I do need to write down the reading each time to monitor the increase in usage.Exactly the same on our monophase Linky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomme Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 I downloaded the EDF app a few days ago. I didn't need to be near the meter to get it to start (although in the same house). As it said, it took a few days for the database to be updated. But I am now have daily reports since the app was installed which show usage every 30 mins. There are also monthly and annual summaries. What I don't get is any present day data - but the app I have from my UK electricity/gas supplier doesn't do that either. I don't get the current meter reading either as the Linky sends that to Enedis who forward it to EDF.There is a summary of my two-monthly factures but no breakdown as I haven't subscribed to online bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Our Linky is in the kitchen, so no problem reading usage. My Dad's however is in an ancient metal "cupboard" down near the road. Door cannot be opened: how useful is that!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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