These should work with meters
Watch out for fake FTDI chips causing driver issues. Watxh out for echo vs no echo (some echo everything on serial and cause chaos)
They are generally NOT suitable for automated meter readout though because the IR is very power hungry and you’ll drain the meter battery quickly.
I did promise to dig out some mbus circuits for the OEM guys - will get to it over Christmas - a purpose made hat rather than the USB widget ought to be neater and more cost effective than the USB to MBus widgets