How to use your In-Home Display
Your IHD can tell you everything you need to know about your energy usage.
What is an IHD?
- Your In-Home Display (IHD) is not your smart meter, it's the little display unit that comes with your smart meter.
- Instead of being attached to your smart meter, the IHD is a portable touch-screen monitor you can keep on display somewhere more convenient.
- Too many walls between your IHD and smart meter might mean they can't connect, so generally it's best to keep them within 10 metres of each other.
- You don't need a smartphone or WiFi to use your IHD - it connects to your smart meter wirelessly through a secure protocol called Zigbee (a low power, low frequency radio network similar to Bluetooth).
Get to know your IHD 3
If you have an IHD 3 it'll look like this.
What do the icons and buttons do?
Battery
Shows how much battery your IHD has when unplugged (it's designed to stay plugged in, so won't last unplugged more than a few hours). If it dies, just plug it back in and press the on/off button at the back.
Energy dial
The curved bars show you how much energy you're using (press the 'Fuel' icon to toggle between gas, electricity and dual fuel). Set a budget to see a handy marker on the dial to help keep tabs on what you're using.
Fuel
Press to see your gas, electricity or combined energy usage and cost.
Home
Press this to head back to the home screen.
Now
Click to see how much energy you're using right now.
Calendar
Press to see what you've used today, this week, this month or this year.
Lights
Show whether your current usage is low (green), medium (amber) or high (red) in comparison to your typical usage.
OK
Press to set budgets, change IHD settings, access meter info and more. Just use the left and right arrows to scroll through your options and press OK to select.
Set Budget
Click OK > Press the right arrow once > Press Adjust settings, then OK > Press Set budget, then OK > Press Calendar > Select how long you want the budget to be (daily, weekly, monthly) > Use the arrows to increase or decrease your budget > Click OK once you're happy with the amount.
Try to set a realistic weekly or monthly budget to keep an eye on your energy use. Please note, if you go over budget, your supply won't stop - it's just a helpful tool to see how your actual usage compares with your ideal usage.