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Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US (solarboi.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by Chewie to c/energy

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WTF?

This is why cloudy systems are asking for trouble. I have several charge controllers at home - none of them connect to the internet, and although probably more expensive, I feel vindicated that this was the right choice....

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 19 points 13 hours ago

If your device can be disabled remotely, it isn't your device.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 11 points 13 hours ago

I'm really looking forward to solar, but I will never touch anything I don't own myself, for this exact reason. They took the shitty business model of game "licensing" and applied it to physical goods. The other issue is that sometimes your power can go out and you've got solar panels, but they're owned by the utility company, run straight to the grid, and you're not allowed to use them, making them useless for you.

[–] perestroika 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I never let my energy devices onto the Internet. The house controller - a Raspberry Pi - is allowed when I wire it to the router using an ethernet cable.

If I worked at the company which did the cyberattack, I would fear both civil liability and prosecution.

[–] paperBark 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Damn I was planning on a sol-ark package in the spring...

Any recommendations for a non-connected (budget-friendly if possible) brand to look for?

[–] Chewie 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I like the MorningStar brand, but they aren't cheap. I wrote a review here if you're interested: http://www.gogreenit.net/index.php?page=morningstar-tristar-60a-mppt

[–] perestroika 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

My preference has become Maximum Solar. They work with button and LCD control. It ain't convenient but I reprogram them only twice a year - when transitioning between summer (hot, energy surplus, preserve batteries by not charging them fully) and winter configurations (cold, energy deficit, fill batteries to the maximum). I've thought about automating that, but didn't bother.

[–] Securus777@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I have a sol-ark and like it though this is concerning. In this case it's dyne on dyne branded and sol-ark has nothing to do with it, as far as we are aware.

If you don't care about the pretty graphs and data points and just want it to do it's job, then getting whatever inverter you want and not connecting to the net solves this problem. Alternatively, locking down traffic to and from this device is something I'll be looking at.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I just installed a sol ark system, and can confirm that they work just as well with a pi and Solar Assistant. Not open source, but integrates well with homeassistant and no need for network connecting the actual electrical equipment, just usb.