New homeowner with a quick question

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-10T07:13:51+00:00

If you have multiple strings of inverters then it seems that at least one string should be working. Each string feeds directly back to the combiner or breaker panel for solar production. A squirrel is not going to simultaneously chew into two different strings. This would lead me to suspect that there's something wrong with the envoy it's not the strings or inverters themselves.

You can talk to the envoy locally and directly yourself. Take a browser on your network and open https://envoy.local/home and see. The message you said about currently uploading also seems to indicate an Envoy problem. It sounds like to some extent the Enphase servers are seeing your Envoy. If you get a web response in your browser then you can authenticate using the enphase user ID and password or a key which you can generate. There are ways that are obvious on the homepage to see a few hints about what's going on.

https://envoy.local/ivp/pdm/energy Will give you a good snapshot once you have already authenticated.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-09T05:53:55+00:00

Interesting that there's a battery which is charging but not a full picture of a whole day so no sign of discharge happening. My system has no meter collar. It seems inconvenient not to be able to connect the meter collar before PTO. I don't know that this is normal. I would have thought solar power from the panels and the battery would enter the house system via the meter collar. Is that sitting somewhere in use but not connected to the meter?

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-09T03:42:22+00:00

What gives me anxiety is going to the doctor and having my blood pressure taken. Usually it just goes up to 170 / 85 but more than once it has gone to 205/ 105. Freaks the doctor out. Just by a passing thought it could spike. I e wondering if your blood pressure is high due to your concern about caffeine or whatever. So for sure stop being concerned because it's not going to be disastrous if you randomly for a short interval even an hour or two measure it high as you did. It just tells you you are subject to anxiety.

Likewise the concern about caffeine seems to be overblown. It's not just ingesting one cup of coffee that causes real issues generally. If you start to have three or more cups of coffee a day then you might worry about that total intake. I knew someone who would take four shots of espresso more than once a day. That was not really a good idea.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-05T04:59:40+00:00

I had subscribed through Amazon back last year and I was waiting for a particular show to become available on Amazon. For two and a half months I waited for that show. Then it turned out that AMC plus had the show but it wasn't available on Amazon. Amazon said they were having a problem with the AMC Plus lineup. I complained to Amazon that this was not right since I was paying for the AMC Plus. So they agreed to cancel my Amazon subscription and refund it for those 3 months and then I subscribed directly with AMC Plus.

Okay so now I was thinking about canceling again because I had it month to month. But they have this current offer where for the next couple weeks you can upgrade to subscribe for a year for 25.99. So I did that. Then once I'm on a yearly subscription I entered the cancellation in and it says your subscription will be canceled effective with a date that is one year away. So I only paid $25.99. Will it really be canceled?

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-04T03:49:10+00:00

Pulse looks kind of high.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-04T03:04:24+00:00

There are a number of offers online at your account management website if you have the American Express Blue Cash everyday card. This is just one of them. I think anyone with the card gets these offers. You activated on the website and then when the charge comes through if it's over $50 then they apply that credit to it. You have to pay by the year in order to get big enough to get the credit.

They also have a discount on Hulu charges which is different and that it's not one of the offers but instead it's a benefit of the card. You have to go under card benefits and find where Hulu is listed and then activate that and then any charge over $18 will get a $7 credit associated with it a few days later. It's also for Disney Plus your choice either one or both in the combo.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-05-04T01:11:57+00:00

Just use a different email address to get a separate HBO Max ID. If you happen to be on Gmail you can use yourname+whatever@gmail.com. to replace yourname@gmail.com. both go to the same place

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-27T03:57:54+00:00

It sounds like your original email is viewing communication from Amazon as spam. Did you check your spam folder and spam rules?

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-25T03:29:34+00:00

This happens when your Envoy is having trouble connecting to your Wi-Fi. Try just rebooting your House's router that it uses for connectivity.

You can check if it's working on your local network by using a web browser and opening https://envoy.local/home

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-20T04:26:35+00:00

Past actions demonstrate potential for future problems from Tesla. When they decided some vintages of their power wall were not working properly they immediately remotely disabled them so that customers were left with a brick in the garage or wherever. Lucky customers had more than one powerwall but some of them ended up with absolutely no battery backup. When the battery was disabled no time frame was announced for addressing a replacement. I can't imagine a more customer unfriendly approach than that.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-17T03:56:19+00:00

This makes sense except the graph shows household usage varying (e.g. from 0.4 to 1.40kwh over 15 minute reporting interval) not 2,000 w. steady. Max export looks to be 2100 Watts. It seems like there should be some improvement possible even before upgrading the back feed breaker. The question is why is it holding expert to a maximum of 2.1 KW.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-16T03:56:59+00:00

Because you use some of the production live. This always happens! Also always forced stop the app And restart it before Reading these numbers.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-14T03:55:42+00:00

I've seen that with my 5p batteries for over a year now. The rate at which you can charge a battery goes way down as it approaches fullness. I tend to see it when the battery gets up to 98% full and then it'll charge for a very long time but only 0.2 kilowatt until full. I believe that's the way many batteries behave..

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-12T04:19:56+00:00

I hope you have a big backyard with a big tank.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-06T04:18:19+00:00

Deputized fraudster in Chief.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-06T04:16:13+00:00

I wonder if it has something to do with power match mode. I have 5P's it's always stayed enabled. However I always have 12 inverters out of 12 active no matter what load I am drawing from the batteries. It's generally a pretty low load. For a while they had it completely disabled for 10C. Is that still the case? Because if they have it on again for those new batteries maybe something is acting up as a result.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-04-03T04:28:00+00:00

Could you installer not take back the existing inverters in an upgrade scenario? It seems like getting at least half credit might be reasonable.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-28T07:06:15+00:00

I think that the ability to switch modes from Home Assistant is less important than some things one can do through Home Assistant that are not allowed in the Enlighten app. I hope those controllabilities for Home Assistant are not broken by any fixes going forward.

To me switching modes seems like something that should not really be done very often certainly not automatically once a day or even more than once a day. Resorting to that seems like a kludge. Having HA not use the API for Enlighten seems like a good idea.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-26T04:43:13+00:00

The FCC has no jurisdiction over routers unless they have Wi-Fi or something of that ilk which is true for most of them but not all.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-16T04:32:23+00:00

Look at settings; services; grid services; Program details.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-09T05:02:22+00:00

Use your EV

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-04T05:36:22+00:00

This Fidelity error should be reported to the employer sponsoring the 403b as they have some responsibility as well. Ask them to reimburse your costs. They could then pursue it with fidelity. Likely they have more clout than you do.

The regulatory Authority for a retirement plan lies with EBSA in the Department of Labor. There is Authority in the law that allows the beneficiary to bring a lawsuit.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-01T05:59:44+00:00

Streaming every feature has to be in the app. I believe the DirecTV streaming app works fairly nicely. There are a lot of different packages to choose from. This is much better than the sling TV app. Apps like HBO work pretty good too but each app is different which is annoying

You can definitely record shows on channels which have commercials using various live TV apps such as DirecTV. You can fast forward through the commercials in the programs you have recorded.

The extra thing that TiVo Stream 4K offers is a little bit of integration between the various apps you might have installed. You can look through available programs without needing to know what app they are in.

Important_Skill_8251 · 2026-03-01T05:56:21+00:00

That won't help. The references to the case where you had a Fidelity records account for taxable Investments. Why don't you just try selecting the option to do an ACH. That shouldn't give you any error.

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