new server doesn't work

[tbilan]

Growatt created a new server because the old one was getting overloaded (at least that's what they told me). The new server is server-us.growatt.com. The old server is server.growatt.com. I can pull data from accounts on the old server but I'm unable to pull data from the new server with an account that is on the new server. I changed the URL to server-us.growatt.com in the init.py but that didn't seem to work.

[Sjord]

Thanks for reporting this. Can you still use the mobile app? How would the app know to connect to the other server?

[tbilan]

I can still use ShinePhone and it only asks for a login. It does not ask for what server I'm on so they must have some kind of login database that points it at the right dataset.

[openincident]

I was able to get this to work by changing the URL to http://server-us.growatt.com, instead of https://

This means this "US" server is passing traffic to and from alicloud without any encryption, which has it's own red flags.

[abij]

Also having trouble with login using the package.
Website server.Growatt.com does work, so does the Mobile App.

I managed to debug the login using the browser:

# Note: new location = 'login' 
# Note: no hashed password!
# Note: account instead of username

response = self.session.post(
            self.get_url("login"),
            data={"account": username, "password": password},
        )

Lets see if I can make the rest of the code work...

[Sjord]

It seems that the app determines the server from the username, using the following request:

https://server-api.growatt.com/newLoginAPI.do?op=getServerUrlByName&userName=username