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

• BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Something that might have been a result due to software laws after “stop killing games” initiative

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      • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I wish I could upvote this 100 times

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