* Posts by propanebeefdog

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Americans resort to padlocking their dumb meters

propanebeefdog

Re: RF interference

Our smart meter *IS* causing me insomnia, but not the kind the tinfoil will solve.

It turns our our smart meter stomps all over the frequencies used by our baby monitors, causing a *SPZZRT* every second or so while it is transmitting. You can actually hear the other meters communicating down the mesh over the monitor (SPZZRT....Spzzrt....spzrrt...). This happens every hour or so, often waking up my wife and I.

BUT - at times there is other activity , either some kind of test or software update that results in a few hours of constant chatter.

Interesting for me from the techno-geek stand point, but pretty much wipes out our baby monitor's usefulness. Good thing our kids are old enough we don't really need them much except when the kids are sick.