On 07/02/2016 20:33, Abdul Hai wrote:
What about in the future when everyone is supposed to have one?with regards to the question"what if we all have to have a smart meter?! from what i have heard some while ago, the government have relented on the mandatory issue of theese smart meters. It is unclear as the why their cnange of stance on that issue but there are several possible reasons behind it, but i will leave that for another group to discuss.
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*From:* john gallagher <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To:* access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Sunday, 7 February 2016, 17:17
*Subject:* [access-uk] Re: SMART METERS
hi with regards to the metres we cannot have one even though in a new house it is something to do with our transponder not supporting them i tried ringing british gas with no joy at all
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From: pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, 7 February 2016 3.49 pm
Subject: [access-uk] Re: SMART METERS
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>
> hello richard,
>
> yes there is an IOS app for the british gas smart meters.
> we had both gas and electricity smart meters fitted last spring and were very lucky as up until then there was only a wireless display fitted in your home, but when the engineers arrived they said to us as of yesterday there is a newmethod of accessing your readings we can now fit a mini router instead of a wireless display that will transmit everything to your apple devices and that if we would prefer to have that they would install that instead although they admitted we would be their guineapigs.
> we had the router installed and there was some minor problems getting it installed but that was because they had never installed one before.
> once up and running it has worked fine apart from one update to the app which caused everyone to uninstall the app and re-install it again to get things working again, but from an accessibility prospective it all works nicely with voiceover.
>
> pete.
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> pete gurney <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 15.35.16 com0000
> "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <lists.godfrey-mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lists.godfrey-mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to ascertain whether there is an iOs app to allow blind people to obtain readings from gas/electricity meters, and, if so, whether meters issued by any particular company are more usable than others.
> I've been offered a meter from British Gas.
> Richard
> Richard Godfrey-McKay
> Telephone: 01738-445 880
> Mobile: 07791 452 593
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