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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by bartvk on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:40AM (#42281870)
It's just a bad idea. I got caught up in a situation where one company sold me a solar installation, then a subcontractor installed and configured it. Apparently they got into a spat about money, because the subcontractor told me to pay the bill straight to them.

Otherwise they'd shut down the newly installed solar installation. I said, can you do that? Of course while talking, I changed the WiFi password.

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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by bennettnate5 on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:44AM (#42281886)
Solar installations are expensive enough that some manufacturers can probably afford to integrate a cellular modem into the product (similar to how all new cars do it today). Good luck changing the Wi-Fi password on that!
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by Loughla on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:52AM (#42281929)
I'm not sure any company does that though. They're operating on pretty slim margins from what I understand, unless I'm wrong.

Adding completely unused features just for fun isn't really a common business practice?

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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by Schiendelman on Saturday November 30, 2024 @10:48AM (#42282168)
Enphase does, as noted elsewhere in the dicussion on this post!
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by bartvk on Saturday November 30, 2024 @09:46AM (#42281894)
That's a very good point, and I don't like it.
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by 15155 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:41AM (#42289238)
Nothing a quick antenna desolder job or trace cut to shut that little vector down.
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by account42 on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:52AM (#42294914)
They can just program the device to shut down automatically if it can't ping home for some time. Marketing will call it a safety feature.
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by 15155 on Monday December 02, 2024 @08:29AM (#42295993)
Nothing an aftermarket control board or MCU swap won't fix.
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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by LorenPechtel on Saturday November 30, 2024 @02:59PM (#42283653)
That's why you get lien releases from subcontractors before you pay the main contractor.
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