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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: 0.214s | source
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harg ◴[15 Apr 25 08:17 UTC] No.43690253[source]▶
I wonder if it would be possible to figure out which pins are connected to what on the device's board and just flash the thing completely with ESPHome and write a custom yaml config for it, rather than adapting the existing vendor firmware.
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1. stereo ◴[15 Apr 25 11:14 UTC] No.43691251[source]▶
On top of that, it looks like it would be relatively easy to spoof the cloud server and make the device believe that there is a firmware update available to then feed it esphome, a bit like the switchbota hack.