I asked the seller though ebay if this worked with an Elster A1700 and the reply implied it would work with ANY meter that has a IEC 62056-21/ IEC 61107 port so I don’t think there is any Elster specific code involved so do you suspect your “pre-Elster a1700” pre-dates those standards and uses a different protocol? Hi, I’m unsure whether to buy one and try with the meter I have (with your guidance perhaps?) or whether I would be chucking good money after bad if it is beyond me or the meters passwords have been changed. There is another phone number (ie not the 0845 one on ebay) on the contacts page.
I assume you have gone for the more expensive “Optical Probe IEC1107 IEC61107 62056-21 with USB cable Windows 10 version” but just wanted to be sure as there is obviously some mindless copy and pasting going on with the listings.ĭoes it come with any paperwork or guide etc, have you contacted them for any support or assistance? They do have a website but it’s pretty limited. The descriptions do not inspire confidence, I see all 3 are listed as having a “Connector pinout: 2.54mm pitch pinheader socket: 5V in, RX, GND, TX” which only really applies to the 1x non-usb version and the “Optical Probe IEC1107 IEC61107 62056-21 with USB cable,Optical Probe for Windows” doesn’t work work with windows 8 or 10. Of the one I linked to? Which one exactly? I went with a USB version of the probe from ebay - all works well.
I’ll happily dig it out again if you have any ideas, I was out of my depth and haven’t had the time to study up or research further. Lack of time and too many unknowns (I don’t know the history of the meter or the module) prevented any further progress at the time. I have a secondhand a1700 and a rs232 module for test purposes, I did at one time try hooking up the rs232 module via a FTDI adapter and ran the elster PC based software to communicate with the a1700 ( the name eludes me at the moment Elster SMARTset v1.1 ) but with no success. The A1700 can also take 1 or 2 plugin modules, which come in both a rs232 and an rs485 variety, the rs232 module is not a lot of money at all. Unlike the A100C and the A1100 there doesn’t appear to be any IR light pulses coming from the A1700’s when checked with a digital camera, my assumption has been that the data needs to be queried/initiated with a handshake rather than a simple repeated transmission. I have several sites that have A1700 meters that I would like to get data from. Unfortunately not, but I too would be interested in anything you learn about this.
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