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jacquesm 7 hours ago

I opened up all inverters here and disabled all remote access hardware physically. I'd rather not have a warranty than the risk of either seeing my critical hardware hacked or bricked by the manufacturer. And given the size of these (one is a 17KW unit) the risk of real damage to my home circuits and/or the feed is not imaginary, just rapidly turning it off and back on would already be a big problem, especially on a really sunny day. I try everything I can to not trip the breakers on the inverter around solar noon on sunny days because the amount of current is non-trivial, even on a 960V system. It will generate an absolutely spectacular arc.

organsnyder 5 hours ago | parent [-]

My SolArk inverter came with a wifi dongle that uses Modbus over RS232 to interface with the inverter. I removed the dongle and connected a Pi to provide a Modbus-over-TCP interface that I can use from Home Assistant. I got more control (the officially-supported Modbus interface is read-only), and SolArk no longer has any access to my equipment.

jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a nice trick. I should try that.