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Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to Meterable FAQ! We’re here to answer your questions. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Send our support team a note at support@meterable.app.

What is Meterable?

Meterable is the perfect app for anyone looking to easily track and manage their meter readings. With Meterable, you can quickly and easily record your consumption of electricity, water, gas, and heat. The app makes it easy to add and manage your meter readings, and provides a simple way to evaluate your consumption over time. Plus, with its clean and intuitive design, using Meterable is a breeze.

What are Metric and Meter?

Meter

A meter is just a simple measuring device, usually of increasing value, used to track the consumption of utilities.

Metric

Metric is not a device, it is an abstraction of your consumption. It can combine the consumption of multiple meters over time in parallel or sequentially.

It’s up to you how you combine your meters. Here are some examples.

Sequential combination

Parallel combination

How to replace meter?

To replace a meter, open your existing metric (e.g. Cold Water) and go to the Meters section. Then create a new meter and start adding new readings. The application will do the rest for you.

Your previous meter consumption will continue gracefully with the new meter consumption.

How to submit a feature request?

Send our support team a note at support@meterable.app.

How to convert m3 to kWh for Gas?

To convert m3 to kWh, open your metric (e.g. Gas), then go to Conversions and create a new conversion.

If you want to show the converted consumption instead of the original consumption everywhere, open the metric settings and select the conversion you want to use. This doesn’t affect the price calculation.

If you want to use the converted consumption to calculate the price, open the price and select the conversion to use.

If the conversion value changes over time, you can create a new conversion and specify a valid date range.

How to create Multi-Tariff meters?

Create a metric, such as electricity.

Create a first meter for the first tariff, e.g. high tariff.

Create a second meter for the first tariff, e.g. low tariff.

Begin entering meter readings.

The application will do the rest for you.

How to create a PV-System?

Create a metric (Electricity) and meter that you use to import energy from the provider. This will be your expense.

Create a metric (PV-System) and meter that you use to export energy to the provider. This will be your income.

When you create the price for the PV-System, select the Price Type as Revenue.

The application automatically calculates cost and revenue.

How to create a water extraction meter?

Create a metric (Cold Water) and meter that you use to get water from the provider. It will be your main meter.

Create a meter that you use to extract garden water. This will be your extraction meter.

Create a price for the extraction meter.

Create a price for the main meter and the extraction meter. Open the price consumption formula and subtract the extraction meter consumption from the main meter consumption.

How to reset or refill meter?

Create a metric e.g. Heating.

Create a first meter e.g. 2021.

Then when you want to reset it, just go to the Meters section inside your metric and create a new meter, e.g. 2022.

Your previous meter consumption will continue gracefully with the new meter consumption.

Same steps can be performed to refill a tank.

Common miscalculation reasons

Conversions

If you’re using conversion to convert e.g. gas m3 to kWh, it’s important to remember that the Conversion rule can change over time and depending on the meter you’re using. This means that you should make sure that you haven’t forgotten to add conversion for new meters after a meter change. You should also make sure that you have set the conversion valid from and valid until dates correctly. Meter readings outside the valid date range will be ignored, as will meters that have no conversion attached.

Price

It’s important to remember that the Price can change over time and depending on the meter you’re using. This means that you should make sure that you haven’t forgotten to attach new meters to the existing price or create a new price after a meter change. You should also make sure that you have set the valid from and valid to dates for the price correctly. Consumption outside the valid date range will be ignored, as will meters without a price attached.

Price also has Accounting Day and Accounting Month values. These fields affect what you see under month name e.g. August or year e.g. 2020.

By default, year 2020 means the following date range: 01.01.2020-31.12.2020.

By default month August means the following date range: 01.08.2020-31.08.2020.

As soon as you change the accounting month to e.g. May, the year e.g. 2020 will be shifted as follows: 01.05.2020-30.04.2021.

If you change the accounting day to e.g. 15, the month e.g. August will be shifted as follows: 15.08.2020-14.09.2020.

You can also combine both the Accounting Month and Accounting Day values.

Meter reading

Each meter reading is rounded to 00:00:00 of the selected date and only one reading per day is allowed. Let’s say you enter 0 kWh on 31.12.2019 and 31 kWh on 31.01.2020. January will NOT show you a consumption of 31 kWh. Why is this?

The consumption for the month of January is calculated using the following formula: value on 01.02.2020 - value on 01.01.2020 = January consumption.

First of all, we don’t have a value for 01.01.2020, which means that the app automatically interpolates it.

We also don’t have a value for 01.02.2020 and the app can’t interpolate it because it’s out of the existing range. The app will take the last available value, in our case from 31.01.2020. The calculated consumption for January will be quite close to 31 and will also be recalculated after a value for 01.02.2020 or later is available.

How to support further development?

You can go to the More section and open the Support Development page. There you can purchase support packages.