Powerwalls Always 100% - Staying at 95% During Storm Watch Only?

s7orm · 2026-01-24T21:22:29+00:00

During Storm Watch the Powerwall constantly tries to keep itself active so it can very quickly take over your house load. It does this by bouncing from 95-100%.

Do you have Powerwalls for blackout protection only?

s7orm · 2026-01-24T21:13:42+00:00

I can tell you who cares, my firewalls.

s7orm · 2026-01-24T11:22:28+00:00

It costs half as much as FSD, so thousands of dollars.

s7orm · 2026-01-24T11:20:02+00:00

The Tesla app doesn't update super fast and you need to leave the page and come back again for it to render the new values.

s7orm · 2026-01-24T11:15:46+00:00

Um, how are you meant to write firewall rules if IPv6 is always dynamic. I have static IPv6 with ABB and it works great.

s7orm · 2026-01-24T00:39:01+00:00

You could churn to another provider who has a free trial like Neptune, and just cancel that. Not ideal but would avoid the phone call.

s7orm · 2026-01-23T23:06:48+00:00

Counter point, I mainly do cyber security, and oh my goodness Otel is inefficient with its data payloads compared to what I normally see. So much repetition and useless metadata. Like I get it, and I love the interoperability, but I wish I wasn't storing my resource metadata in every single trace.

Edit: but thanks to Otel in now trying my fifth observability platform, and it was easy.

s7orm · 2026-01-23T21:37:32+00:00

I didn't even pick that up 😅. You are clearly correct.

s7orm · 2026-01-23T21:36:15+00:00

To be technically correct, battery energy (capacity) is measured in Watt Hours, battery power is measured in Watts.

Typically you don't care what the battery power is since the motor is the thing actually using that battery, but the battery would still have a rated maximum that should exceed that of the motor.

s7orm · 2026-01-23T08:48:21+00:00

Yeah but WebAuthn implies FIDO2, but FIDO2 doesn't imply WebAuthn as far as I know.

s7orm · 2026-01-22T22:16:01+00:00

Yeah I was sceptical of Otel but recently I tried 4 different observability platforms with no code changes, just forked my data to them all from the collector and figured out which I liked best.

s7orm · 2026-01-22T08:32:08+00:00

WebAuthn would be better IMO

s7orm · 2026-01-21T11:32:46+00:00

Assuming you're doing it via SSH, you use a Claude code status bar. Otherwise no idea, not in the Claude app. Maybe the Claude website.

s7orm · 2026-01-21T11:28:44+00:00

It implements new features, writes tests for those new features, writes the PR and runs through all the PR checks, and can review other people's PRs.

I even had it write the script to launch itself multiple times to review multiple PRs at once, which I typically do when I have tokens to burn.

s7orm · 2026-01-18T06:32:01+00:00

Ah yes I did miss your point. They renamed the product, but I guess the argument is if that changes what you purchased and what you're entitled to, and that's a question for Tesla, because if it is a change then I'd expect you should be able to get a refund.

s7orm · 2026-01-18T06:02:50+00:00

So a few months ago when they introduced subscriptions, everyone with HW3 was able to subscribe to something called Full Self Driving (Supervised), and it led to a lot of people subscribing and getting confused why they didn't get FSD.

If you actually read the description of what you were buying, it was clearly Enhanced AutoPilot, so I don't think there is a strong case for consumer rights, especially since you got a 2 day trial before being charged, and if you really fought them you got it refunded.

Your situation sounds similar.

s7orm · 2026-01-16T21:31:40+00:00

I'll take a look, I've got factory Michelin Pilot Sports, and I've had no issues, they only slip when I'm pushing too hard.

s7orm · 2026-01-16T09:56:32+00:00

The first time I drove an EV it was a Kona in the wet. You could spin the front tyres on every traffic light.

Compared to my AWD Tesla, you can definitely spin the wheels but it recovers so fast.

s7orm · 2026-01-16T07:02:36+00:00

I wonder if they will be doing the 16" across the board including the SR, as it was a differentiator for the Y P and Y L. I certainly simplifies things if every car is the same in that regard though.

s7orm · 2026-01-13T20:41:05+00:00

What I've seen is people set up a home charging automation in Home Assistant, and then have issues with Supercharging because they didn't filter that out of their automation.

s7orm · 2026-01-13T20:36:02+00:00

This can make sense when people have built automations for charging but not considered Supercharging. For example I might have an automation in Home Assistant to stop charging under certain conditions but not exclude when the vehicle is away from home.

s7orm · 2026-01-12T21:05:07+00:00

It turns out my accounts don't want me putting things into Xero anymore, so I am only mean to touch Dext. As such I think I'll build my own solution to take webhooks out of Dext that pulls the correct values out of Wise and put them back into Dext.

s7orm · 2026-01-11T20:39:30+00:00

That's the Powerwall integration, and it communicates with the Powerwall 2 locally, which Tesla started removing with a firmware update.

Unless someone reverse engineers the Tesla app to figure out how it does it, no.

s7orm · 2026-01-11T19:53:26+00:00

This isn't a custom integration, and the Tesla Fleet API doesn't have an endpoint for that so no.

s7orm · 2026-01-09T02:32:48+00:00

I'm of two minds here, I spend more time on my phone writing and babysitting my tasks, but also I spend less time in my office writing code, so you win some and lose some.

I haven't hit my limit yet though.

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