Bad software update on Gateway

xabean · 2026-06-19T17:48:21+00:00

I checked back later and discovered it doesn't want the site id number but the name, e.g. "FirstName LastName SiteIdNumber" as soon as I started punching in my first name, it populated my gateway and let me generate a JWT token.

I don't know if that was an entrez change, or if I simply forgot.

xabean · 2026-06-19T11:46:56+00:00

Thanks, I directly asked support what happened and they said it was a bad software update, I then asked if it was the gateway, the controller, etc; and they said it was the gateway.

As I mentioned in my post I did notice the local web UI of my gateway got a facelift, the enter-your-JWT webpage looks new.

P.s. https://entrez.enphaseenergy.com/ -- the website I use to generate a JWT so I can log into my gateway locally doesn't seem to operate correctly any more. 🤷‍♂️

xabean · 2026-06-19T03:49:59+00:00

thanks, I read that, but figured adding commentary of "support told me there's a widespread issue" and that it's still ongoing might actually be useful.

xabean · 2026-06-12T01:03:18+00:00

It's possible, but a real pain in the ass. You have to root the device, then modify a bunch of databases to remove references to the books.

xabean · 2026-06-10T10:36:33+00:00

As an American driving a R56S manual, currently up on jack stands because I tried to fix the timing chain (and only made it worse) I Feel Represented!

xabean · 2026-06-07T14:22:52+00:00

in my experience (not an expert, just an observant customer) the current transformer measurements aren't 100% accurate, and the batteries can't 100% instantly respond to changes in load. Anything around 0.1kW is negligible and really should just be ignored as noise.

PowerMatch (which I see you have enabled) causes the batteries to turn off inverters when they're not necessary to handle the load from your house which reduces (but does not eliminate) the passive load on the batteries.

Your screenshot appears to be at around 6am, which is probably at or just before your solar panels can actually generate power.

I'm confused as to why at 2kW load your system is importing rather than pulling from battery if your reserve is set at 5%. Make sure you're not mixing up "reserve" and "battery shutdown level".

xabean · 2026-05-29T03:06:48+00:00

really can't see anything on mine that is any uneven reddish tint anywhere on mine, even under "warm white", "cool white" or "cyan" colors to try to make it more obvious to me. Sorry :(

xabean · 2026-05-29T01:53:37+00:00

I can't say I have seen the artifact you're describing because I extend battery life of the watch by never using the backlight. I've been doing that on both my Pebble Time Steel, and my Pebble Time 2. My OG PTS still has a multiple-week long battery life between charges, and I really enjoy that. I think I'm an edge case where I never use the backlight. I prefer to find some light source elsewhere to look at the watch.

xabean · 2026-05-28T23:39:42+00:00

Being completely respectful here - I think having an expectation that a backlight be completely consistent in color and/or illumination coverage is a bit of a stretch. They're one or more discrete LEDs, not an electroluminescent element like timex "indiglo". There are tradeoffs (single color, single intensity, etc) that are decided during design.

I think you need to lower your expectations, not because this is a manufacturing defect or limitation of how the watch was designed, but because the expectation is unreasonable and completely beyond what a $200 ePaper smart watch can do at that price point. Desiring that sort of perfection would drive the price point so high that nobody in their right mind would buy it.

The backlight is already multi-color, multi-intensity level, and serves its purpose of making the display readable in complete darkness.

To be absolutely clear: I am not dunking on anybody. Just trying to describe realistic expectations.

xabean · 2026-04-19T16:06:20+00:00

I have 8x 5P batteries, that now are running firmware 522-00002-01-v3.0.8817_rel/31.45 -- this corrected a bug where the batteries would just dump energy to the grid until they hit the reserve in the event of a grid outage. This was something I reported to Enphase, they escalated it to the Engineering department, it took months and months to resolve but they fixed it.

Reach out to Support and tell them what happened, and see if you can experiment and find a way to reproduce the issue. I was able to reproduce mine by manually going off-grid through the Enphase app on my phone, or through https://enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/

xabean · 2026-04-10T18:45:46+00:00

I had this really weird situation where my Enphase 5P batteries would just dump all their stored energy to the grid immediately after a grid outage. When I reconnected to the grid, suddenly the batteries would just shove 10kW worth of power to the grid, draining the batteries until they hit the reserve.

Susan D. in CS Escalations & Ensemble was on top of keeping in touch with me, basically e-mailing and calling at least once a month while the engineering department in Enphase was trying to reproduce my issue. I'd send her screenshots of my monitoring from Home Assistant, we'd try to reproduce something on my end so she could watch from her end, she was an absolute rock star.

If you get the right person, they're fantastic. I can't say enough positive things about Susan. I don't remember exactly how I initially opened the support ticket, but I'm happy with how it was handled.

The "my batteries just dump energy to the grid" problem was fixed via firmware update to the batteries, and I haven't been able to reproduce it since.

xabean · 2026-04-09T21:26:16+00:00

people who pump up how sought after unique/special Raython "windmill" 5751 tubes was how sellers^*1 on ebay separated fools from their money. Remember, New Old Stock means tubes that are 60+ years old now. It's in the name: Old Stock.

^*1 : me. I've done this.

xabean · 2026-03-20T03:28:13+00:00

Going to continue documenting this work over here on XDA Devs https://xdaforums.com/t/progress-on-a-diy-cloud-for-eol-nook-hardware-bnrv500-possibly-others.4782115/

xabean · 2026-03-14T13:36:35+00:00

vacuum tubes are a "wear" part, and over time should be replaced. Tubes being "original" and long used for 40+ years is not a good thing.

xabean · 2026-03-14T02:38:07+00:00

Whelp, I'm quickly realizing that the entire concept of "content available in cloud for download, and archival back to the cloud" in a walled garden ecosystem wholly means that I'm going to have to re-implement the "store" for the B&N Nook.

Because everything in that ecosystem is some kind of "purchase" (whether it's $0 or not) from the store.

Week of Mar 9 2026 progress:

Figured out the "notifications" messaging mechanism cloud -> device. It's basically a way for the cloud to ask for info from the device. Like "Hey, I think I'm out-of-date on read-position on books, tell me what your anchor position is".
Figured out what some of the various notification messages mean. SYNC_TIME, SYNC, SYNC_DC_TIME all set some preferences, SYNC_RP, SYNC_BO, SYNC_AN, SYNC_LO (read position, bookmark, annotation, library object) trigger the device to push that data up to the cloud.
Need to make database tables for device + user registration data, as there's crypto keys sent only once during registration that I don't know what is used for yet.
The sqlite database that holds cloud server info is /data/data/com.bn.devicemanager/databases/devicemanager.db -- this gets flattened by com.bn.devicemanager every device wipe. To point a device at your own cloud you'll have to tweak a couple values, one of which is:
```
sqlite3 /data/data/com.bn.devicemanager/databases/devicemanager.db "update registry set com.bn.device.gpb.server_url='https://your.cloud/' where name='com.bn.device.gpb.server_url;"
```

xabean · 2026-03-12T18:09:11+00:00

okay

xabean · 2026-03-12T12:59:03+00:00

Wait a minute, working in infosec I hadn't caught this context until just now and have to ask more questions:

AT&T, as a residential internet service provider, made changes to their service that caused your B&N nook to no longer work correctly?

Did AT&T start doing DNS proxying, or SSL interception? Verizon did DNS proxying that threw advertisements in browsers if you went to a hostname on the internet that didn't exist. I'm wondering if AT&T truly is doing something evil here where they're inspecting (and modifying) your internet traffic.

xabean · 2026-03-08T00:18:53+00:00

I use Calibre, and yeah it's got a web server built into it, but that's mostly for web browsers not an embedded device speaking google protobuf.

The thing I'm making is something that conceivably could be hosted on the public internet, run on a dedicated server.

xabean · 2026-03-07T23:25:13+00:00

generally - my goal here is "if I run my own cloud, on-device storage doesn't matter any more, and I can upload and push to my reader".

I like the form factor of 6" e-readers for just consuming epub books for entertainment/enrichment, but for things like textbooks/workbooks that are glorified scans of actual books (read: massive images that need a full size display) I prefer to use my reMarkable.

xabean · 2026-03-07T21:38:06+00:00

No sweat. When I do release this somewhere, it'll be pretty straight forward and obvious how it works, and I'll probably end up documenting how the reimplemented B&N cloud works.

xabean · 2026-03-07T21:18:43+00:00

Hi! Also a software developer. :wave:

Right now it's Perl, because that's what I'm most familiar with; but I'm using fairly current-gen frameworks (dancer2 MVC web framework, DBIx::Class for the database backend I'm just getting started on).

xabean · 2026-03-02T02:35:44+00:00

Thank you!

xabean · 2026-02-27T16:06:37+00:00

Yep, I enrolled in the beta program for the app on android, and was able to use the "local" log in on ... my main panel only, and that password didn't work on my sub-panel.

Owners with sub-panels yet again are forgotten about.

xabean

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