It goes without saying, that having the ability to monitor usage, compilation of data and being able to change parameters of an inverter wirelessly gives significant levels of convenience. However, off-late, the increase of hackers targeting remote systems is off concern. I don't seem to hear a lot about various Inverter system providers talking about how secure their portals are or sites when it comes to ensuring these remain secure. Imagine, God forbid, someone hacking Sunsynk or Victron portals and tampering with systems globally... that would be catastrophic! Would also be comfortable having inverter systems having on-board drives to store data, in case someone doesn't want to use the online portals and the on-board drives then compile various data that can be accessed with physical access by the user and password protected and even additional 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) being incorporated into online systems by default... food for thought forumites.

Well there was that "breach" on the solarman portal where the master password was included in some code - so its challenging. For normal users how do they even start to manage this? More advanced users can do VLans etc but its tricky

@Moffat If it is off concern, you can record all the data, changes settings etc using Home Assistant and then disconnect the Solarman dongle.

On 2022/10/20 at 8:46 AM, Sc00bs said:

@Moffat If it is off concern, you can record all the data, changes settings etc using Home Assistant and then disconnect the Solarman dongle.

Yes this can be done, but the real risk is of a Trojan being uploaded and it then embeds itself within the firmware of the Inverter and starts executing codes and changing parameters of the inverter...