Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats

• 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.

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  • 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

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    • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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)

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