Też jakoś w to nie wierzę, takie rzeczy nie dzieją się z dnia na dzień, ale produkty można jeszcze wciskać klientom wiedząc że za chwile ostatni drzwi zamyka a reszta niech się martwi. Praktyk tego typu jest dziś całe mnóstwo.
I’ve used Onemeter until I could use it with an older meter which one was supporting un-encrypter communication through the optical port (Iskra MT174), then ENEA changed it to an Apator, which has DLMS enabled and the reading the meter has stopped there. I still cannot read the meter in real time or near real time. The meter has an optical port, a P1 connector and built in WM-BUS module on the side of the LTE module. And I still cannot read it for years now. So the guys story is real, and I feel his pain. His model was reasonable, he received funds, expanded to foreign markets, but generally the Polish market was his home market. And his operations was getting smaller and smaller year by year. It was promised and planned years ago to allow local access, but the gateway solution is not that straightforward. It is a gateway, it receives all the Onemeter modules bluetooth data from nearby, it does not filter to your own one, and it sends all to the server. So for local access you need to have strict filter solution otherwise you would have access to other people’s data. This is how I understand.
The pain what he describes is real. It is the same as we discussed it in another topic. Just think of this, Energa has a proprietary USB port to be able to read the local data. There is no physical hardware on the market, which is approved by Energa to be connected to the meter and be able to read it. To read, what is your own usage data. Energa offers you to send you a csv/xls file if you request it. Onemeter’s website and backend was superb compared to what I have seen from any of the DSOs. It was a reasonable solution. And I really feel sorry for the guy.
The situation what he ended up in, I wouldn’t wish for anybody. He has been just lost in the a burocratic trap which is all about our data which has strict rules and EU directives about it, etc, and we all should have access to it, but the DSOs has more power than anybody else, and the local regulators make laws which supports only the DSOs and sets data access limits which are still 8-9 years from now.
A year has passed and I am a bit curious, has anybody out there managed to reverse engineer the gateway package with some AI input?
I still think the idea was great, and the hardware worth the money, the execution and the support wasn’t the best seeing the end result.
But moving forward, and seeing where the Gas meters are heading in Poland, I think a device like that should fill the gap, if the Gas meters’ IR port could output the information every 15 minutes, or so, and if the provider would have any interest in doing that so. Which seeing how things turned out on the electricity side, I have no high hopes for anything…
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Thanks @angler, that is a really cool project, thanks for sharing. At least it gives a short term hope for people who have the device and old meter, which still talks without encryption.