At face value, this sounds ridiculous. When I buy any device, what I am looking for is "available over LAN" and "HTTP API documented". It's either entirely do

At face value, this sounds ridiculous. When I buy any device, what I am looking for is "available over LAN" and "HTTP API documented". It's either entirely documented and lovely, like Hue and LIFX. Or difficult and third-party like Nanoleaf. Or it's ridiculously impossible with deliberate Chinese cryptographic blockage and "Identity verification" at every turn, like Tuya. I'm happy to add a plugin or reverse-engineer an API if I need to. The latter I scorn at every turn. And my plugins are used by thousands of people every day, so hopefully the tide will turn.