What happens when the Internet is down?

2 comments started 2022-03-10 last 2022-03-10
GivEnergy ProductsAC Coupled
#1 Woodstock

Had a very unusual situation last night when grid power was OK but the internet went down for four hours. This set me wondering if the schedule for inverter operations is held locally or on the cloud? As it happened there were no timed events scheduled during the period the internet was down and it looks as though the inverter just carried on in ECO mode as if nothing had happened. I do not know if a timed event would have been affected by not being able to access the internet for either instructions or clock time.

A second question that comes to mind is; can a customer control the inverter locally during internet outages and make changes to modes, schedule times, charge reserves, charge limits etc.?

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#2 anglefire

The setting are all stored locally so internet is only required to update them if using the cloud portal or app.

You can do local control but you need to add some addition software or wait for the updated app which we are told is coming.