@Crighton
Try this https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/Meters-Connections/Reading-E355-meter/td-p/29846
It is a posting on these neighbourhood pages that has been ongoing for 15 months now.
As stated above the Green button is there so that you can read the device and turn on the Controlled load as a boost button.
Pushing the green button for 5 secs will cause ANY THING connected to your controlled circuit to switch to your Peak supply and you will be then charged at the current rate.
I had a smart meter installed in January 2019 having had solar installed in the beginning of Dec 2018, also had a heat pump hot water service installed around that time as well.
When the smart meter was installed I also got the electrician to switch the hot water to the main supply as the service also has an inbuilt timer. (Hence I could use solar to supply power to the hot water service...).
Now I had a new meter, the installer did not know how to use the meter, a quick search of the web found I could not find a user manual for the meter.
Being a brand new meter it was very simple to work out what each meter number described, think that took less than 3 hours to do.
A check after sunset confirmed the readings. Remember I only had Solar, Peak and Controlled circuits, the controlled was not in use.
While I was working all this out I accidentally forced the display into a different screen, then took me about an hour to work out all the functions of that screen.
Now, since having the smart meter I suddenly had access to a download file from AGL and I wrote a programme to convert the AGL file into the industry standard NEM format file which I still use to this day
Further research (much later) led me to my Supplier (SA Power Networks) and they also had a download file that I could access. The issue with the SAPN file is that it only available in Eastern Standard Time.
Using my programme I could then accurately track my usage and I can show you all of my usage since the new meter was installed.
When I switched to Time Of Use it was a simple task to create reports (daily) that showed my usage for the day.
Made the spread sheet a bit harder to update but it has evolved into a very complicated spreadsheet that even has lookup tables that allow for changes for rates. In April last year we went though FOUR rate changes in 14 days.
Also I stopped reading my meter(s) and now use the data supplied to verify what AGL is billing me.
Did you know that AGL is billing you based on 5min (not 30min) data. Makes a lot of difference if you have a Demand Rate.
Now AGL supply Billing based on " Electricity charges are based on an actual meter reading " and do not supply a Start / End reading as your meter may have been reset to 0 at any time during the billing period.
Yes, there were many complaints about that (and still is).
So, I say to you, hold the green button on for 5 Seconds, you will hear a click (if you have reasonable hearing) and the screen display will change to show you are in by-pass, I believe if you hold that down for 5 secs later on it should switch back to NORMAL mode (ie timer mode).
I don't have a 355 model, but this works using the bypass button on mine. The 350 model has two buttons by the way.
As Les can attest, I regularly check my file data against the data shown on the APP / Webpage, and have often gone to Senior AGL staff asking them to get data.
Reading your meter data is only of value to you if you have a single rate tariff, there are not single meters for each tariff, so your Peak Meter which contains the usage
Time of use rates are calculated by the time of day, demand rate is calculated by the MAX rate in any unit during the Demand period.
If you read the post that I added a link to on the top of this post you will find the method to work out what each listing means.
Cheers Neil
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