The honest answer, first
The WattHacker monitor currently works with one piece of hardware: the SunPower PVS6 gateway. If that is not what you have, it will not work for you today, and we would rather you found that out here than after buying one.
That is a narrower answer than most sites would give you, and there is a reason for it. WattHacker exists because SunPower went bankrupt in 2024 and switched off the app several hundred thousand owners relied on. Those owners have no vendor to go back to. Most other solar owners do — and if your manufacturer is still trading, their own monitoring is free, supported, and a better answer than ours.
Where each system stands
What we can and cannot do for the systems people ask about most. "Their app" below means the manufacturer's own monitoring, which in every one of these cases is still running.
| Your system | Monitoring today | WattHacker |
|---|---|---|
| SunPower PVS6 | SunStrong app — free tier, paid tier for history and per-panel | Supported |
| SunPower PVS5 | Same as above | Built for it, not yet verified on real hardware |
| SunPower PVS2 (legacy) | Cannot report since the March 2025 server change | Not supported |
| Enphase (Envoy / IQ Gateway) | Enphase app — company still trading | Not supported |
| SolarEdge | mySolarEdge — company still trading | Not supported |
| APsystems (ECU-R / ECU-B / ECU-C) | EMA — free, company still trading | Not supported |
| APsystems EZ1 (plug-in / balcony) | AP EasyPower — includes a documented local mode | Not supported |
| Tesla / SolarCity | Tesla app | Not supported |
| Something else | Varies | Tell us below |
If your row says "not supported", the useful next step is almost never us. It is your own manufacturer's app — and if you want your data out of it and into something you control, most of these have an active Home Assistant community that has already done the work.
So why fill in the form?
Three situations where hearing from you genuinely changes something:
- Your manufacturer has gone dark too. Vendors keep failing, and the next SunPower is the one we would want to be ready for. If you have been cut off, that is the strongest possible signal.
- Their app works but tells you nothing useful. Plenty of monitoring shows a live number and no memory — no history, no per-panel detail, no explanation of why your bill went up. That gap is what we actually build for.
- You have a PVS5. We need real hardware to verify against, and that is a short, concrete list we are actively trying to fill.
It goes to the founder directly. You will get a straight answer about whether your system is on the list — including "probably not, and here is what I would do instead", which is the reply a fair number of these get.
Request WattHacker for your system
Tell us what you have. It goes straight to the founder, who reads and answers these himself — including when the answer is "not any time soon".
If you do have a SunPower PVS6
The WattHacker monitor is a small box that plugs into your existing SunPower PVS6 gateway on your own home network and reads it directly — no technician, no electrician, no rewiring.
- The monitor is $50 once (list $100), with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Free to see your panel data, forever — every panel, live, no subscription and no card on file.
- An optional premium plan at $6/mo (billed annually) adds full history and alerts told to you in dollars.
- Who's behind it.
Common questions
Does WattHacker work with Enphase, SolarEdge or APsystems?
Not today. The WattHacker monitor currently reads one gateway: the SunPower PVS6. It was built for owners whose manufacturer went bankrupt and switched their monitoring off. If your system is from a company that is still trading, their own app almost certainly still works and is free — which is a better answer than ours for most people.
Will you add support for my system?
Possibly, and which one comes first is decided by who asks. There is a form on this page for exactly that: your name, your email and a note about what you have. It goes straight to the founder. We would rather build the one that a real queue of people are waiting for than guess.
Why only SunPower PVS6?
Because every gateway speaks its own protocol, and doing one properly is worth more than doing five badly. SunPower is also the case with genuine urgency: the company went bankrupt in 2024 and took its app down, leaving owners with no vendor to go back to. Other manufacturers are still in business and still running their own monitoring.
I have a SunPower PVS5 — does that count?
The PVS5 exposes the same local interface as the PVS6, so the monitor was built to work with both. We have not had a PVS5 on the bench to confirm it, so we will not claim it works until we have. If you have one and want to be one of the units we verify against, say so in the form on this page.
Do you sell or share the details I put in this form?
No. Your name, email and note go into our own database and to the founder's inbox, and are used only to reply to you about your system. We do not sell user data and we do not add you to a marketing list.
See your own panels, live.
See plans Back to home