Nice, that's excellent news. I won't buy anything from google because they cut things off quickly and hard. Unless I can flash something else onto it. Lol
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Deffo.
Even though I have replaced my thermostat already, I tried the hack and it was pretty straight forward.
The dashboard on the website interface is pretty slick too.
That's fantastic man. Looks great!
Thanks for putting the links from my, half arsed post.
I’m so happy you posted—half arsed or not. Thank you. I didn’t know about it yet, and it brightened my day.
When the Google (and then the Belkin/Wemo) announcement started being posted, I commented more than once:
When these companies want to cease updates and shutdown their servers, they should be required to:
- Provide a path to install open source or third party firmware
- Fully document the communication with the the device requires to function
- Allow pointing the device at an open source or third party server
I’m glad someone figured out how to do what these fucked up greedy companies chose not to do.
I do wish they had a self host option, reading their page it just redirects all info to their servers and they're spoofing the api.
I agree a self host would be ideal.
Maybe ask if they can change the redirects to a local host and share the source for the website?
Probably after they take their bounty.
It’s a fine first step though.