They found a way to install a custom firmware and working toward getting home assistant local control. Definitely something I’m following now
This really needs to run locally for me to even bother. I’d rather just go get a new thermostat with proper local support instead and be done with this nonsense
That’s what HA is all about, so, yeah, that’s the goal
Definitely very cool.
It is odd that they went to a “different” cloud instead of making it full local. It seems like that would be more work. Local control of iot is critical.
But I wonder if they dumped the firmware, edited the URLs, and reverse engineered the google API, and made their own.
I looked through the GitHub details and it talks about connecting the thermostat via USB to flash it. I really only have Chromebooks at home and I’m not sure how well that would work on Linux container.
https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat]Should be a way to work around that.