You are looking at your Powerwall. You need to find your Gateway because that is where the ethernet port is.
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Tesla Gateway and Powerwall - Converting to hard wired network
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This is my setup. I have 2X Powerwalls + 1 SE inverter. I am not aware of any separate Gateway device. Unless you're talking about the little black box that I no longer use. That device connects to the SE inverter via Zigbee. But I'm using ethernet (not pictured) to connect the inverter instead. This is so I have data through the SE app.
So I repeat, I'm looking to access the internal volume of my Powerwall to access the RJ45 port that I believe it has. Thanks.
As @power.saver says, you are looking at the powerwall (powerwall 2s). The ethernet port is going to be in your gateway, not the powerwall 2.
There are currently 3 versions of the "gateway" device that we are aware of. (2) of those three versions look like a medium sized grey box and are both called "Tesla energy gateway version 1" (TEG version 1). The third version is TEG version 2, and looks like a white miniature powerwall 2.
If you have TEG version 1, you can take off the deadfront of the grey box and will see an ethernet port in the upper right side of the box, not hidden or anything. I dont have a TEG version 2 so cant tell you where it is, on that one.
No, you arent actually.
Powerwalls (the white boxes) do not have ethernet to them specifically. Everything about the powerwall is controlled from the Tesla energy gateway. In your picture, the TEG will be the grey box with the 2 black knobs on it, just to the right of your inverter. that box is where you would be wiring the TEG to ethernet. The TEG controls the powerwalls, so thats how you wire your "system" with ethernet, by connecting the TEG with an ethernet cable.
OOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ok. That gray box wasn't labeled. I always thought it was just a junction box or something. Alright, so I opened it up and found the RJ45. Thanks guys!
Yes, I got my gateway connected. I don't recall exactly where the RJ45 was, but I also remember it being pretty easy to find. On mine I had to open the front panel/door and then unscrew/remove another panel. After that the RJ45 was pretty easy to find.
After you get the Ethernet connected consider not configuring wifi in the app to force it to use Ethernet. For me, this has greatly improved the app's connectivity and got rid of the "Configure Wifi" prompts.
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To be clear, the powerwall is the battery. It is a big, heavy 1 meter x 1 meter x 20 cm box with a green LED light strip down the side and vents on left and right. You might have more than one. Don't open that!
When you purchase a power wall, you also get a separate Tesla gateway. The power wall comes in version 1 and 2. The gateway comes in version 1 and 2. It is possible to have a powerwall 2 with a gateway 1. To my knowledge, gateway 2 had the extras to conform to European power requirements. The gateway looks like a gray circuit breaker box, probably installed on the wall next to your main circuit breaker panel for your house. Mine is labelled with the words "Tesla Gateway" at top. Mine has a funny lock mechanism on the bottom right corner of the front door which causes the front door to drop down a little ways before coming open. The ethernet port is inside the gateway, not visible, hiding well inside and Tesla would prefer if your installer hooked that part up.
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After also getting frustrated with the built-in WiFi of the Tesla Gateway box occasionally disconnecting (usually when I'm out-of-town, of course), I just recently installed this product:
It's a little WiFi to Ethernet bridge powered by USB. You'll also need a female-to-female RJ-45 (Ethernet) coupler and an Ethernet cable to run into the Tesla Gateway box. (I figured it was better to set this device outside the metal box of the Tesla Gateway.)
By the way, has anybody else never had cellular support with their gateway? My Powerwalls were installed in March of 2020 and I've read that the 3G cellular was going away, but I've never seen that work as a fallback when its WiFi support lost connection (or my internet service went down).
It's a little WiFi to Ethernet bridge powered by USB. You'll also need a female-to-female RJ-45 (Ethernet) coupler and an Ethernet cable to run into the Tesla Gateway box. (I figured it was better to set this device outside the metal box of the Tesla Gateway.)
By the way, has anybody else never had cellular support with their gateway? My Powerwalls were installed in March of 2020 and I've read that the 3G cellular was going away, but I've never seen that work as a fallback when its WiFi support lost connection (or my internet service went down).
Did you power it from pinouts on the gateway or plugged it into an outlet close the the gateway? I don't have any outlets anywhere close.
