Earlier this year, Amazon announced that they’ll discontinue Dash Buttons. I don’t know how successful Dash Buttons were for their intended use, but Home Automation hackers have loved (mis-)using them for everything from warming up their coffee pot to keeping track of bodily functions. Unfortunately for us hackers, Amazon is an unforgiving god. Not only […]
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Securing HomeAssistant with client certificates (works with Safari/iOS)
I recently moved from SmartThings to HomeAssistant. One of the things I didn’t have to think about too much with SmartThings was how to authenticate all of my connected devices (laptops, phones, tablets, etc.) with my HA platform. I wanted to find a good balance between security and convenience with HomeAssistant. HomeAssistant makes it easy to secure your […]
Reverse engineering the new Milight/LimitlessLED 2.4 GHz Protocol
My last post went over an ESP8266-based wifi gateway for Milight/LimitlessLED bulbs. This supports a few kinds of bulbs that have been around for a couple of years (e.g., this one). About a year ago, newer bulbs and controllers started showing up that used a different 2.4 GHz protocol. This introduced some scrambling that made […]