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Yup, totally agree. One thing I have found is that many of these devices use the venerable and cheap ESP8266 chip which is extraordinarily easy to hack. It can'
by zw123456 7y ago
Yup, totally agree. One thing I have found is that many of these devices use the venerable and cheap ESP8266 chip which is extraordinarily easy to hack. It can't really be factory flashed so the programming pins are almost always padded out on the PCB. So I get WeMo or cheap knock offs for example, and reflash 'em with my own code so it basically is only on my wifi network.
- thedanbob 7y agoYup, that’s what’s in my Sonoff switch. I love the ESP8266, it’s the reason I got a serial programming cable in the first place, long before I was interested in home automation.
- StavrosK 7y agoI pretty much based my home automation on Sonoff devices. I use Espurna and it's fantastic, and I wrote a small server for updates. I compile my custom firmware (so I don't have to set up new devices all the time, I just flash and they're ready), drop it on a directory on my NAS and all the devices in the house automatically update themselves.