{"id":4399,"date":"2013-01-05T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2014-08-24T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:27:37","slug":"british-gas-energy-monitor-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2013\/01\/british-gas-energy-monitor-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas energy monitor reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before Christmas, as is often the way at this time of the year with technology, a gadget dad uses to monitor the electricity used in the house failed and stopped giving updates.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4401\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/british_gas_energy_monitor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4401\" src=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/british_gas_energy_monitor-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"British Gas electricity energy monitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Gas electricity energy monitor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Further investigations including a trip to the electricity meter cupboard outside, revealed that the EnergySmart\u00a0sensor needed a new battery.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unfamilier with these units they are a two part kit, easily installed by the homeowner to constantly monitor electricity usage in a building.<\/p>\n<p>One part consists of a small transmitter unit which clamps around an electricity cable in your meter cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>The second unit displays usage and past usage (30 days) inside the house.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more on the <a title=\"British Gas Energy Smart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britishgas.co.uk\/products-and-services\/gas-and-electricity\/energysmart\/electricity-monitor.html\" target=\"_blank\">British Gas website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please Like this article on Facebook using the buttons at the top and bottom of the article.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Battery replacement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The battery used in the sensor turns out to be a lithium CR2 3V battery and a spare was easily obtained via <a title=\"CR2 Battery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=cr2%20battery&amp;tag=ablogfromydog-21&amp;index=aps&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>When inserted however, the two units failed to communicate and appeared to have lost sync with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the British Gas help desk we soon were up and running again after we followed their advice to reset the EnergySmart monitor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Please remove the power supply from your display and hold the top &#8216;menu&#8217; button down for 10 seconds and the screen on your display go blank to show it&#8217;s been turned off.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>While your monitor is turned off, carefully disconnect the sensor from your electricity meter and remove the battery and reinsert after 10 seconds.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Now using something like a paper clip, press the reset button which can be found about halfway down the side of the sensor. You&#8217;ll need to press the reset button around 4-6 times until the LED inside the sensor lights up solidly and then start to double flash.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Please now reconnect sensor to the same wire on your electricity meter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Now insert the power supply back into your display and while holding the bottom &#8216;adjust&#8217; button down, press the top &#8216;menu&#8217; button four times. The display will then flash white and clear, before returning to displaying the pulsating blue antennae.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Your display will now reconnect to your sensor and begin displaying your electricity consumption within 30 seconds.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reset the EnergySmart\u00a0unit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have to admit that dad did try the above instructions two or three times before both units started talking.<\/p>\n<p>All seems to be working once more and, as we type up this blog post, he is busy re-entering all of the settings such as the time and cost per unit. It would really be an improvement if gadgets like this could remember settings when batteries fail.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time<\/p>\n<p>Buster and Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When our British Gas EnergySmart monitor stopped working dad had to ask for help as he could not work out how to reset it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,6],"tags":[49,51,4687,4666,4668,4683,4011,4676,4678,4670,4681,4690,956,4679,4665,4667,4584,2374,4966,4688,4689,4685,4684,4672,4675,4673,4671,4682,4691,4988],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-gadgets-and-boys-toys","tag-amazon-co-uk","tag-amazon-uk","tag-battery-replacement","tag-british-energy","tag-british-gas","tag-cables","tag-clamps","tag-cupboard","tag-electricity-energy","tag-electricity-meter","tag-electricity-usage","tag-energysmart","tag-gadget","tag-gas-electricity","tag-gas-energy","tag-gas-monitor","tag-investigations","tag-led","tag-lights","tag-lithium","tag-lithium-battery","tag-lithium-cr2","tag-mains","tag-menu-button","tag-power-supply","tag-reset-button","tag-sensor-lights","tag-transmitter-unit","tag-unit-displays","tag-website","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/british_gas_energy_monitor-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/british_gas_energy_monitor-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}