Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 week agoWouldn’t it be possible just to replace the valve transmitter with a digitised version that sent out the same signal?
Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 week agoWouldn’t it be possible just to replace the valve transmitter with a digitised version that sent out the same signal?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 week ago
It would cost millions to design and build it and, as it would be the only one in the world ever built, it would again rely on bespoke components, for a service the BBC has been wanting to close for nearly 20 years anyway.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Surely cheaper than enforcing mass installations. (Although it’s customers doubtlessly picking up this cost.)
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 week ago
The installations have to happen. Why spend hundreds of millions of licence fee payer’s money the BBC doesn’t have on a temporary kicking of the can?
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 week ago
And why can’t the power companies pay for this out of their eye-watering profits? I don’t understand why you think the BBC needs to be involved any more. (People I know have only had issues with smart meter installations that have caused just unnecessary stress. I’m pretty much waiting until I hear that they actually work better than half the time and that there are mechanisms to verify readings before I sign up.)