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How I Hacked My Air Purifier to Remove Cloud Dependency [Detailed Write-Up] (jmswrnr.com)
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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That is awesome. Though since he could patch the firmware and they had custom encryption code, I would have patched that out to get unencrypted calls. Those his method allowed for stock operation.

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I thought air purifiers were already meant to remove clouds

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the device? Brand model? Is it winix or Philips?

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Looks like they don't want to name names because capitalism and lawsuits but this should work for any Wi-Fi based smart device that uses an ESP32.