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My parents have one of these systems installed - the guy that did it took the password off their WiFi since it "doesn't support it". Even with a password on the home WiFi it defaults to broadcasting it's own open SSID that will happily display the wireless key to anybody that connects to it. Apparently these don't support Ethernet either..

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Mine definitely supports Ethernet and WiFi with password, both what it connects to and the SSID it broadcast, though I had to change some settings on my AP (running OpenWRT) to get it to work.

I logged into the SSID and tried to set a password on the interface itself but then apparently it lost connection to their system and needed to be reset. Not sure as to why an electrician can’t just install an Ethernet cable at the same time as the massive battery

They probably can if you ask, but most people don't use wired networks at home.

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