Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats
nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 day agoI got 11 years out of mine. I had been wanting to upgrade it because it did not accept sensors.
Does it suck that it was still functional? Yup.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean they could just unlock the dang things at let some industrious hacker make them useful again. Hell I’d pay like $10 for a firmware that would work with home assistant.
BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Are API calls to the device signed or whatever? At a minimum one could snoop traffic to rev-eng the API, then recreate it on a lan-only segment
billwashere@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I haven’t snooped on the traffic but at the very least it was encrypted back to google. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it was also signed somehow.  If it was easy, somebody would’ve already cracked it, especially with all the brouhaha about them dropping support.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I would have paid for that as well. I would pay for that for my truck’s infotainment center as well.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honestly I’d pay as much as $50 to unlock my Microsoft sync to CarPlay on my old explorer.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I think car manufacturers that put closed systems in vehicles and then abandon them should be required to either open source the system or push a final update that adds Android auto/apple car play (or whatever they are called)