The primary aim of Smart Meters, it seems to me, is to make it harder to take a reading when the energy company who installed the smart meter goes bust and its successor is unable to read it automatically.
A clue: you usually seem to have to press the 9 key to get the thing to show you the number you need to type into the web page..
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