pypowerwall: New PW firmware seems to break vitals - 23.44.0

I like to begin by saying thank you for everyone’s time, energy, and efforts toward this project; its been phenomenal to learn and use!

At 11:38pm last night I noticed that the pypowerwall was having authentication issues, I had to use the forget password function to reset the gateway password. Once I restarted everything I noticed that pypowerwall was no longer getting vitals and that the firmware version seems to be new.

output:

Device Version:
 23.44.0 eb113390

Device Vitals:
 None

generated by:

import pypowerwall

password='xxx'
email='xxx'
host = "xxx"
timezone = "America/Los_Angeles" 

pw = pypowerwall.Powerwall(host,password,email,timezone)

print("Device Version:\n %s\n" % pw.version())
print("Device Vitals:\n %s\n" % pw.vitals(True))

About this issue

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State: open
Created 7 months ago
Comments: 17 (10 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Add Bearer token authmode option #57 — committed to jasonacox/pypowerwall by jasonacox 6 months ago
Remove /api/devices/vitals queries as FW 23.44.0 removes this; for details see jasonacox/pypowerwall/issues/57 — committed to iwvelando/tesla-energy-stats-collector by iwvelando 6 months ago
Merge pull request #66 from jasonacox/v0.7.6 Fix 404 handling #65 #57 — committed to jasonacox/pypowerwall by jasonacox 6 months ago

Most upvoted comments

🔥 CRITICAL Upgrade - Please take a moment and upgrade your installation of pypowerwall if you using it for your own scripts. The latest release includes the critical patch I mention above that fixes 404 HTTP status code handling for API calls. Older versions of pypowerwall will cause a repeating loop of login attempts eventually resulting in rate limiting and failure to get any metrics.

NOTE: IF YOU HAVE FIRMWARE 23.44.0 YOU ARE IMPACTED AND SHOULD UPGRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

pip install --upgrade pypowerwall

Verify version 0.7.6 or greater:

python -m pypowerwall version

🟢 pyPowerwall [0.7.6]

Note: Users of pypowerwall proxy docker container should upgrade to the latest as well: jasonacox/pypowerwall:0.7.6t39

An update is being prepared for Powerwall-Dashboard users.

jasonacox on Jan 13, 2024

Thanks @FabienLavocat - I was worried about that, but it was worth a shot. I also don’t think this will help the Powerwall 3 owners as that system doesn’t seem to even allow a customer login.

I added the token option to pypowerwall and the proxy just in case it is useful for someone or needed in the future. It was an easy minor update (v0.7.4).

v0.7.4 - Bearer Token Auth

pyPowerwall Updates

This release adds the ability to use a Bearer Token for Authentication for the local Powerwall gateway API calls. This is selectable by defining authmode='token' in the initialization. The default mode uses the existing AuthCookie and UserRecord method.

import pypowerwall

pw = pypowerwall.Powerwall(HOST, PASSWORD, EMAIL, TIMEZONE, authmode="token")

Proxy

The above option is extended to the pyPowerwall Proxy via the envrionmental variable PW_AUTH_MODE set to cookie (default) or token.

jasonacox on Jan 4, 2024

@jasonacox I am on 23.44.0 and your code works for the APIs api/meters/aggregates and api/system_status/soe but not api/devices/vitals (as discussed earlier in the thread, that endpoint seems to be gone…)

FabienLavocat on Jan 4, 2024

Discussion here as well: https://github.com/jasonacox/Powerwall-Dashboard/discussions/402

jasonacox on Dec 16, 2023

@jasonacox Thanks for looking into this; I was afraid that eventually we would see changes like this; I think for full metrics we would need to tap into the can bus between the gw and the pws.

Using the tesla pro app its possible to see at-least the individual line voltages and frequencies of the grid/pws/home, but in all my digging there doesn’t seem to be an exposed api to do it from the customer login; I’m not versed well enough to do packet captures and decode them (assuming its possible as they should be tls encrypted) or to reverse engineer the telsa pros app to see where its making the calls to retreve that data.

dscoffe39 on Dec 15, 2023