jhn_
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The little black box from Tesla that used to be called the Tesla Gateway (confusingly) is connected via Zigbee wireless protocol (802.15) to your inverter. That black box acts as a gateway, forwarding your inverter data directly to Tesla. Tesla then forwards the data on to SolarEdge so if you have a SolarEdge account setup you can also see the data in their dashboard. But the data in setups like this passes through Tesla first before going to SolarEdge.I just unplugged my black gateway and the data in my Solar Edge account stopped updating. I obviously don’t know the details of the data sharing going on, but it is definitely happening and I think I can conclusively say that is the pathway, at least for my system.
It’s kludgy. There have been cases where something gets screwed up on the Tesla data center side of things that prevents the data from going to SolarEdge. If your SolarEdge inverter is setup with Ethernet or it’s own onboard WiFi (not usually done in Tesla installs) then the data goes straight to SolarEdge but not Tesla.