I doubt they turned off the mqtt port, that's how the mobile app communicates with the energy bridge when it's on the same network. I find it more likely they just added a password, maybe changed the topic, some other thing that needs to be reverse-engineered again.
Mine unfortunately stopped working altogether recently. I can connect to the mqtt broker on it just like before and subscribe to topics, publish, etc. but there's no longer any data being published to the topics. I have a feeling the power company came along & did some housekeeping and must have sent an unbind command to the meter to disassociate it from the bridge.
I tried emailing the guy at Powerley who always answered my questions when AEP was participating but I never heard back from him.
I have unfortunately written the energy bridge off, I'll need to break down & buy a monitor I guess.
Good luck with yours!
Edit: I just re-read what you wrote, sorry, I guess I thought you were wondering if they shut down the port entirely, now I see we're actually on the same page RE access to the port, etc.
