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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)

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314 points walterbell | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 03:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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paranoidrobot ◴[15 Apr 25 05:06 UTC] No.43689144[source]▶
As far as I can tell it doesn't mention which air purifier.

Knowing that might help influence purchasing decisions for those also interested in a "sleek" air purifier that contains an ESP32.

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1. deanc ◴[15 Apr 25 05:49 UTC] No.43689368[source]▶
I highly suspect that this is a Levoit air purifier. I recently purchased a Levoit 300S and had the same issue. The VeSync app connects the device directly over the internet and you can control it via an API on their domain with a username and password. Your air purifier is then a backdoor to your home network. I just put it on a guest network now rather than go through this.