How To Hack YAKA (UMEME) Meter [Get Free Electricity]

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If you live around Kampala, chances are you have already been moved from the digital electric meter to what UMEME calls "YAKA" If UMEME hasn't brought YAKA to you"YET", you can be sure they are soon at your door step any time from now.

This article is only for educational purposes and so i won't be held responsible for your actions.

In this article, there comes lots of theories and just one proven method to hack the YAKA prepaid meter.

So, What is Yaka Really?

Yaka is an electric meter particularly made for UMEME by a company based in South Africa called Conlog to reduce on electricity hacking and get ride of their meter readers pay role. However, after all this time in deployment, YAKA is after all not a full-proof solution for UMEME. how? UMEME as a company doesn't really make these meters. All the work is done in South Africa by a company called Conlog. You want to hack YAKA? Conlog is the real deal. Here is an article that was written by Conlog in 2011 when it all started: New business methods in Uganda


As these guys' website say's "Conlog has been leading the prepayment industry for more than 20 years. Our solutions bring the best in metering, vending, revenue management and associated support services, to ensure the sustainability of your project, now and tomorrow... "
Really you got to give credit to these guys.
Now. getting into the Hacking, In a video, I found online, I gathered that one has to actually open up/ break into the casing of the system if they wanted to hack it

In the above video, A technician at Conlog South Africa takes us through how conlog meters are made and somewhere along the lines he mentions something about how to get through it. Even though most of these meters are tamper-proof in that it might not go back together as it was after you break it.

Apart from this hack, there are a lot of theories including something i mentioned in my previous How To Hack A Weel meter which is Adding strong magnets side by side which personally I don't think will ever work since nothing metallic actually determines the electricity usage. I will outline and maybe talk a little of what i know about a specific theory and then I will give you something that actually works. and actually worked for a few people I know however later ware caught and hard to pay a few fines.

This article is only for educational puposes and so i won't be held responsible for your actions.

Theory 1: Attacking a smart meter’s memory-through hardware.

Theory 2: Using a digital radio to Hack a Smart Meter

Theory 3: Accessing the meter with a wireless Device

Theory 4: Spreading malware to the Smart Meter’s network

Theory 5: Measuring the Smart Meter’s electrical consumption

The 5 out lines are all from here: 5 Hacks That Render Smart Meters Dumb

Personally i didn't find any of these really help full but maybe some one out there could check it out and may be find a more effective hack. I call them theories because i didn't relate any to our country and, quite honestly i don't think of YAKA as a Smart Meter. Its just a prepaid electricity device that was introduced to Uganda a few years ago.

The Yaka meter in your house is just for outputting and inputting data, like typing in your token, and displaying how much you have left. Actually, the real magic happens up on the electric pal on that box/s hanging and that's where your meter in the house gets and puts all its information. so you could say if your credit is due, your meter only sends a signal to the big box on the pole through the wiring and then, its the circulate breakers job in that box to turn your power off. even when you load a token, the meter only sends it to the box, then the box again, Does the magic to calculate how much the code you brought has to give you. Don't be fooled, those meters don't have a network system otherwise they wouldn't have wires from the pole's box. i have hard people talking about how the meter is connected to umeme offices but think about it, Those guys can only tell when you last bought or loaded a token and all about the previous purchases, but they cant tell how much electricity was used in a day or a satain week. Now did you know that if you call your phone number's service provider and ask them how you have used your credit they will give you full details of when and what you used it, But UMEME can't. and that's one of the reasons i don't like to call it a smart Meter otherwise i think every smart device has got to have network/internet. Ok what does all this lead us to,

We know that all the math and magic is done on the big box on the poles. But how do we get to it, If you are human enough, also not a professional electrician, am sure i don't have to tell you it's just crazy climbing an electric pole. So please don't. as i said, this is only for educational purposes even though you may get some professionals to climb and confirm for you. I may self haven't been up there but i am telling you this after a long time of research and I have seen this working in a few places.

Now for the steps.

Again: This article is only for educational purposes and so i won't be held responsible for your actions.

After climbing that pole, What you need is anything that can cut through an electrocuted wire and a non-conductor of electricity.

Step 1: Trace for the big-black wire that brings power to your house.

Step 2: Find the pole on which it's attached. [One of the wires in the big wire should go directly to the box which then moves on out to a live wire on the pole]

Step 2:  Cut the live wire to the box from the black wire of your house [Red]. After citing it from the box, the meter at your house should power off

Step 4: Connect the wire you cut to the same red wire the box is connected to [the wire that passes power through the box]

At this time, power comes to your house. But this time, all Free. Any electricity used after this will be free. Enjoy!

Note: The wiring will not be the same for all cases. In some places, several houses can be connected to the same box on the pole. In this case, refer to "How it works" below.

How this works:

In this trick, all we did was to bypass the system in the box at the electric pole. So the meter will think the power is just off and so causes it not to calculate any more power.

For the case of a number of houses connected to the same box, just identify your own wire and find a way to bypass that box.

Like i said: This is only for educational purposes and so i won't be held responsible for your actions. and be care full.

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