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Useful piece. Solar panels are largely cloud managed, and now in The Netherlands alone create the same power as 50 of our nuclear power plants. If you switch this 25GW on/off remotely, the consequences could be huge. And we do not regulate these cloud platforms at all: https://www.dw.com/en/how-hackers-capture-your-solar-panels-and-cause-grid-havoc/a-71593448
@bert_hubert I was afraid this would happen someday, so I took my solar panel installation off the WiFi. No more pretty pictures on how much power I generated, but the solar panels work fine without.
@bashae My panels are also offline, but I still monitor them. And it is a bit sad that this requires you to be a geek, because we could have also built it this way that you don't have to go via the cloud. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
@bert_hubert @bashae When I got my panels updated I specified an inverter that gave me local access & had well maintainted homesasistant support.. lots of them don't. It's a pity there aren't enough of us to demand this is the norm.
Which one was that?
@ely @tony @bert_hubert @bashae Connecting Solax to HA and disconnecting it from the cloud was matter of 15 minutes. Not sure how available Solax inverters are on other markets. Due to quite unique legislation 3-phase inverters are required here, so our selection of inverters is specific (Solax, Goodwe, Victron primarily).