Are you with GivEnergy, Dave?
I have had the Australian tech’s on-site probably a dozen times now, who eventually brought techs over from Shanghai to my site…who literally took pieces of my batteries away back to Shanghai with them to study.
I don’t feel comfortable changing anything at all at this stage, as I’m assuming that they feel there’s a problem there. But if you are on the inside then I’d be happy to get schooled on what can finally make this stuff work.
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And I thought these new AIO’s no longer had dongles. They had coms boards, which is why they haven’t been able to work out how to shut off the wifi noise that all three of them transmit 24/7 even though it’s a hardwired installation.
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No I am not associated with GE. I am retired, I used to be an IT Specialist then an IT Architect.
The AIO’s does have a comms board. The reason you can not turn off the WiFi is for emergencies, if the Ethernet failed and you have disabled WiFi, you have really bricked the AIO as no access.
I have all my kit hardwired and on UniFi, so it sounds like it is a network config issue, dongle, or WiFi chipset FW.
All my kit is working in HA, GivTCP & Predbat. It is nothing to do with GE cloud.
There are some issues with the network & dongle fw. If you’re not happy to upgrade then it will be difficult to sort sorry.
My installer said to keep an eye on this website as this is what they all use to keep kit updated and on the latest fw at install.
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Seems to me like the wifi AP mode should work like any other wifi smart device.
Wifi radio turns on immediately following power on or a restart, and then turns off after 2 minutes if it doesn’t find a connection.
That would mean less power consumption (the 3 x radios 24/7) and less wifi noise.
Sitting there broadcasting in 3 separate wifi AP modes all day just in case somebody decides to connect for maintenance is pretty ‘10 years ago’ in smart home technology.
I don’t even think it would be compliant in many countries.
Imagine if every wifi device did that???
Wifi would be unusable.
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Totally agree, I would like that as well.
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I now have the Raspberry Pi installed with Home Assistant and it works well (communicating locally with the invertor). I recomend The Geek on You Tube to help set it up. I just have to set the program up that controls the battery and EV charger correctly now.This may be a little more complicated, but again the Geek has a video on it.
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