Sol-Ark 15k: "Lock Out All Changes"?

[dreancestere]

My Sol-Ark 15k has an option at Settings > Basic Setup > Factory Reset to "Lock Out All Changes". The manual makes no mention of that option. But it does say for the Factory Reset tab:

"Restrictions: Changes to these settings must be previously authorized by Sol-Ark technical support agents."

Anyone have any idea what that does and how it works? I was hoping it might be a way to prevent someone from coming in over the wifi dongle and changing my settings. But, with that restriction, I'm not going to try it.

 

[DIYrich]

Deye manual:

 

[glandpuck]

I have not looked into that, but I will take a look today. The Sol-Ark inverter allows the installer to make certain firmware configuration changes. Sol-Ark assumes that a professional installer is commissioning the inverter and that the installer will add this "power plant" under their username and password and be granted the permissions to configure and change the unit remotely.

If a person is doing a self install, then they will need to contact Sol-Ark tech support and explain this for Sol-Ark to add (remove restrictions) to their My Sol-Ark account granting the ability to configure the entire unit via the phone app and web interface. Without this enhanced permission being available, calls to Sol-Ark support are needed to configure some of the parameters.

I suspect this is kind of like doing a factory reset of a smart TV or a cell phone when you change ownership. And if you do the factory reset, you will need to know the password to remove the lock and set up the inverter again.

As for the dongle, if it is on your wifi and your wifi is encrypted with a password, then you have nothing to worry about. Almost all hacks come from someone gaining access top a network mostly by tricking someone into giving up a username and password. And since your inverter has no banking information, big deal, so my inverter was hacked. No financial loss.

 

[Oldphile]

I did a factory reset on my Sol-Ark without a password.

 

[CAD]

...As for the dongle, if it is on your wifi and your wifi is encrypted with a password, then you have nothing to worry about. Almost all hacks come from someone gaining access top a network mostly by tricking someone into giving up a username and password. And since your inverter has no banking information, big deal, so my inverter was hacked. No financial loss.

You might want to read Sandworm. Especially perhaps the chapter on destroying electrical equipment remotely.

 

[mwk1000]

You might want to read Sandworm. Especially perhaps the chapter on destroying electrical equipment remotely.

FWIW I had set a firewall to block the dongle IP that I set to a static address. I noticed that mysolark had data one day and checked the damn dongle was at ...130 it had reset a static IP ( it was 129 and blocked ) WTF ?? So it is now sitting on top of the inverter to be plugged in when wanted