Has there been any progress on this???
I just had 2 x GivEnergy AIO batteries installed yesterday and wired entirely to ethernet, and then the three separate high powered AP broadcasts on three separate channels from the GivEnergy wifi which is on for no reason at all have killed my entire smart home. My really expensive router constantly cycles the 2.4GHz on/off to try to establish clear communications. So…no lights, no climate control, no Zigbee, no fireplace, no spa, no TV, no stereo…why???
You need to go onto a computer with a browser enter the device IP and it should load an insecure webpage.
Default creds on my AIO was admin admin.
In there I do seem to have the option to choose WiFi channel and set a password but no option to turn it off entirely.
Least if you can choose a specific channel it might help.
Thanks
Bob
I can login but nothing I change gets saved.
My devices are running Access Point mode, which means I have 3 different devices that are trying to be routers over the top of my home’s wifi.
They are currently in APSTAETHW mode.
When I change the workmode to STA it allows me to save and prompts me to restart them for the change to take effect…but when they restart they are still in the same mode.
Same thing when I change the wifi channel.
It doesn’t actually change.
And I don’t really have a free channel as I run home automation via Zwave and Zigbee, so I really need this access point mode to be gone!
Still waiting for an update on this.
All 3 GivEnergy devices run 24/7 access points that channel hop over each other (and over my home’s mesh wifi system and smarthome Zigbee/Zwave) trying to get client connections that never come, on an installation that I paid extra money to have ethernet cables run for!
The techs have disconnected my 3 x antennas, which helped a lot, but there are 2 rooms in my house (one next to the gateway and one next to the 2 x batteries) where wifi internet is so frustrating that my family won’t do homework in there etc.
And wifi channel hopping is a complete no-no for smarthomes like ours that run Zigbee and Zwave devices, because there are wifi channels that just cannot be touched without kicking everything offline.
Not to mention that 3 different wifi radios running in high powered AP mode - with or without their antennas installed - draw an average of 60W, 24/7!!! That means about 1.5kW daily of my precious-expensive solar/battery system is going purely toward powering the annoying interrupting of my household for no benefit at all!
Come on, guys!
This is a very serious flaw to GivEnergy’s architecture, and this forum thread says it is now over a year since this was brought to light.
Please fix this in firmware very simply by shutting off the wifi radio modules (ALL WIFI RADIO CHIPSETS CAN DO THIS) after 2 minutes of no connections being established after a restart. That way the batteries/gateways can still easily be accessed by techs via wifi without using a screwdriver, the smarthome pollution/interference goes away, and the GivEnergy system becomes more power efficient.
STILL waiting for an update on this…
3 months in and my GivEnergy batteries have now wasted over 150kWh of our solar by running 3 different wifi radios that we do not want, and all while intermittently scrambling the wifi/Zigbee/Zwave of our home.
We paid extra to hardwire our solar to ethernet to avoid this kind of problem.
We went with a UK backed company because we wanted better service than this, but we can’t even get a response…much less a solution. Not good enough.
HI interested in your comments. When your internet supplier changes and router probably (unable to copy over old router id/password as not secure enough) do I need to change SSID on both gateway and ALL IN ONE?
you are very unlikely to get a response on this forum, its principally populated by customers of GivEnergy equipment. It is not a formal support channel
think of it as going down the pub with a bunch of mates who support the same football team. We can all moan about performance and tactics they should have played, but none of us own or play for the club
I’m pretty sure my inverter dongles are in STA mode, as for why yours won’t, I don’t know. I’ve never seen any massive interference from mine and there are two inverters side by side. Have you tried updating the dongle firmware to the latest version, that is supposed to give more stability, and maybe it resolves the problems you have?
If your system is currently connected via WiFi, just copy the SSID and password you currently connect with into the new router and it ‘should’ just reconnect. No reason why your current SSID/password should suddenly be a security risk if it wasn’t before.. I’ve done this several times when people change ISP, I also will be doing this to my own system once BT finally join my house fibre to the incoming fibre. Basically I bin the ISP supplied router and fit a Draytek which allows rather better setup for a home network than the rubbish ISP’s supply! All my system is on LAN (EV charger on WiFi) and just carries on working.
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