Update Tesla Powerwall Integration configuration - how?

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I’m currently using the Tesla Powerwall integration to monitor my Powerwalls and Solar Gateways, but I’m in a position where I need to change the IP addresses (both wired and wifi) associated with each solar gateway and I cannot for the life of me find out where in the integration configuration I can update the IP addresses it uses to communicate with the gateways.

Is it possible to do this, and if so, how can I go about it?

Also, does the integration currently support connectivity to the Solar Gateway via a wired Ethernet interface/IP or is the wireless inteface the only option?

I remember when I did the initial install of the integration 2 years back, I could only get it to connect to the wifi IP address of the gateway and would now like to swtich to the wired IP, if at all possible.

Thank you!

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Usually this is fixed by deleting the integration and adding it again.

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In addition to @fleskefjes advice, here’s my experience:

I have 1 Tesla Gateway and 2 Tesla Powerwall 2 batteries, each one of them shows up as its own device in the Tesla Integration - but I only have one device in the Tesla Custom Integration.

My Tesla Gateway has a wired connection, and I had to disconnect it from my WiFi because having both connections in parallel cause some issues:
Availability Issues with Tesla API - Configuration - Home Assistant Community

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That was going to be my ‘nuclear’ option, as I don’t want to lose all my history and would need to set the entity ID’s all up again to match (a PITA, but do-able).

I was hoping for a less destructive option. :slight_smile:

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@chairstacker Interesting read on that thread… how did you have the gateway “forget” the WiFi connection?

There’s no real management interface on the gateway’s that I can find other than using the Tesla One app - is that how you did this?

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I think I just created an SSID, connected the gateway to it and deleted the SSID again - there might be other ways, but that was the quickest and it worked fine for me.

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Very clever. Did you connect to the gateway and do that configuration via the Tesla app or did you use the Tesla One app?

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Didn’t even know the Tesla One App existed, so just used the standard mobile app.

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Actually you don’t need to!

Your Tesla devices, integrations, and apps reside at the ‘application’ level, and the underlying ‘network’ level should be entirely transparent to them as long as the data arrives uncorrupted and in a timely fashion.

So, let’s lock in the IP Address you currently use. We do that by associating the Tesla MAC Address (unique to each network entity, one for WiFi, another for the wired) to a static IP address (doesn’t change).

On your router, go to the DHCP settings area and reconfigure the current IP address for your Tesla device to remain constant (static). Save and reboot the router and Tesla equipment to re-establish connection. Now when your Tesla connects, whether it is via WiFi or Ethernet MAC Address, it will continue to use the same IP address and everything should remain working from a network IP Address aspect. If you change between WiFi and wired in the future, just reassociate the respective MAC address with the same IP Address.

Simplez!