Comment on Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration
Arcka@midwest.social 11 months ago
That way, you don’t need to connect them to the manufacturer’s (probably insecure) cloud.
The problem is that these projects do connect to the manufacturer’s cloud.
I agree that the company is handling this the wrong way, but it is possible for 3rd-party code to negatively impact the service for other users. The right way to address any legitimate issues would be to have reasonable rate limits and work with the developer to fix any concerns.
This is also why I believe in choosing devices with local control instead of those which require cloud services. For example, Louis’ video mentions air conditioners. Get one that can use a wired thermostat that you control over Z-Wave or ZigBee.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That doesn’t make it any better. I’m guessing that it uses the shitty cloud backend because there is no way to control the AC unit directly. In that case, they should just implement a direct local API and stop bitching about “forbidden usage of their cloud services”.