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[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago

When we purchased our new house 5 years ago, we had a Tesla PowerWall installed. It came with a Telstra 3G SIM card and when they installed it, I told them to connect it via Ethernet. The technician refused, saying that it has 3G and doesn’t need to be connect to the home network at all.

I received a text from Tesla this morning, telling me that our PowerWall will not be covered by warranty when Telstra kill 3G at the end of next month.

I then received an email from Tesla (that looked like Spam).

I then receive a phone call from Tesla.

I mentioned that I don’t have WiFi coverage in my garage and they told me to move my router. I told them that I instructed the technician to connect via Ethernet originally and they said that I would need to get the technician back out to connect it.

I am not allowed to plug Ethernet into it without voiding warranty and I need to plug Ethernet into it to prevent the warranty from being void.

[-] tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 2 points 7 months ago

@Salvo @Seagoon_ I know this isn't a good situation, but could you do something with a WiFi extender?

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

I do have A UniFi home network so all I need to do is add another access point, but that is beside the point.

I don’t want it using WiFi; it is a fitting that is part of the house, it should be wired, not wireless.

[-] sibrosan@mastodon.social 2 points 7 months ago

@Salvo @Seagoon_

But it would be able to connect via wifi? In that case the easiest solution would be a wifi router or a wifi extender

[-] tezoatlipoca@mas.to 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@Salvo @Seagoon_ i have no plans on ever buying anything Tesla, but if I ever had any potential to, its bullshit like this which smacks me out of it (drunken stupor likely)

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

The PowerWall is a great product for what it is, but Lithium Ion is wasted in a permanent install. Other battery technologies are more reliable, cheaper, safer and simpler.

The only thing Lithium Ion has going is ubiquity due to volumes of scale. It is like putting a ESP32 in something that needs to be connected to the internet because it is cheaper than a separate microcontroller chip and ethernet chip; or how most Lightning headphones use Bluetooth because a single Bluetooth chip with integrated DAC is cheaper and more readily available than an official (or even a bootleg) Lightning chip and a DAC chip.

[-] Azuaron@hachyderm.io 1 points 7 months ago

@Salvo Oof. In the next couple of years I'll be getting solar and some kind of home battery. I've been vaguely considering Tesla on the idea that they couldn't possibly mess up a stationary battery in my home like they do their cars. Thanks for setting me straight.

[-] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Don’t get me wrong, the PowerWall has been great for the last 4 years, It is just that the subcontracting technicians didn’t want to do any more work than the bare minimum, even though it was negligible extra effort.

That said, since Musk has severely gone off the rails and still has controlling interest in the Company, I would be hesitant to trust anything that comes out from the North American operations.

The problem is that all the other aftermarket battery backup technologies (that I know about from 3 year old research) are either inferior to the PowerWall in every way, or need to be manufactured bespoke for the Australian market.

[-] dwillanski@aus.social 1 points 7 months ago

@Salvo @Seagoon_ and I thought them telling a Deaf person to email the tech support for the wrong country, who then told them to make a phone call, was bad!

[-] kithrup@wandering.shop 1 points 7 months ago

@Salvo @Seagoon_ oy with the poodles.

Over here (IE) I am annoyed by how tightly batteries and inverters seem to be.

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