Kind of meta, but does anybody remember garage door openers back in the day? My family had one for which the “security” consisted of an 8-bit “key,” as in, the remote had 8 jumpers, and the lift unit had 8 DIP switches. You’d cut jumpers in a certain pattern, and flip the switches to match. What was fun was seeing how many garage doors around town we could open using the default pattern.
Smart locks have got to be at least a slight improvent, right?
(Yeah, AI slop from the early days when I was checking it out.)
I would expect that the cost-benefit calculation doesn’t work out. If you have a password hash in local memory, then the computer can try each possibility in nanoseconds, and it can still take several minutes to crack trivial passwords.
To brute-force a password over HTTPS, each attempt is on the order of microseconds, about 1/1000th the speed, or slower. Plus, all the overhead of SSL, which imposes a compute burden on the attacking machine.
And that’s just trivial passwords, plus assuming that the target host doesn’t have connection rate-limiting, or even a sysadmin who’d notice the logs getting flooded with bad requests continuously for a couple of days.
I work in IT at a major university, and watch the logs. My Home Assistant instance is open to the Internet behind an nginx reverse proxy with SSL. (The official add-on makes it easy.) Brute-forcing passwords on HTTPS is not really a thing anymore. I get a connection attempt or two per month at home. At work, they go for known vulnerabilities in web apps; WordPress, mostly.
I see that folks are trying to be helpful here, but I think that you’re making it far more complicated that it needs to be. ZHA supports the SLZB-07, and the manufacturer supports ZHA. It seems to me that the path forward here is to figure out how to create automations first, which is not exactly straightforward. It’ll be easier to figure out the issue if you can point to exactly what’s not working, if anything.
Otherwise, there’s a strong chance that if you get the adapter working with Z2M, you’ll be back at square one trying to create an automation, but more frustrated.
If it’s not satire, then calling it “malice” is too on-the-nose.
In an ideal world, antisematism wouldn’t be a thing at all, Jews could live in peace and prosperity anywhere they choose, and the state of Israel would lose any reason to exist. But somehow Israel needs to be stopped in a matter of days right now. Is it bad to destroy infrastructure and pollute the land to save lives, as well as stop the greater destruction and pollution elsewhere?
Seems to me that the proper response is to issue an evacuation notice, then bomb the fuck out of Tel Aviv.
Easily the most ridiculous is the one I made on a motion trigger from the camera pointed out my window to take a snapshot, pass it to ollama/qwen3, and have it compose a haiku about the scene to be read aloud by Pocket TTS.
That looks like it should work. Just a couple of thoughts: The default gateway is irrelevant. That’s only where the OS sends packets that don’t match the netmask. Since these addresses all lie within the same /24 range, the default gateway will never be used. It wouldn’t hurt to check the ARP tables of each OS to see whether the VM MACs ever show up on the remote host or VM. Are the two hosts connected with a cable, or via WiFi? If the latter, VirtualBox has to do some software trickery to make bridging work, and I can imagine that perhaps some WiFi devices wouldn’t play nice.
I’m slowly de-Google-ing. Today, I nuked one of two accounts. Next up is cutting off the Nest thermostat, and automating it with my local Home Assistant server. (I’ve never run Windows at home, so I can’t delete it.)
ETA: Forgot to note I’m switching to a European email provider.
That’s exactly what I need to know. Thanks!
I have to give it this much respect: When I logged in to office.com (for work) recently and was confronted with the Copilot chat-box, I asked it how to disable Copilot. It was honest, and told me that it’s not possible because this is Microsoft’s new product strategy. Then, I asked how I could never see Copilot again.
It (no joke!) told me to install Linux.
I was about to get in the car and go buy the Sonos soundbar, but I checked the manual first. The network setup itself is done through an app that connects via BLE, and to use the app, you first have to create a Sonos account. That’s a ‘no’ from me. I may be unreasonable, but I don’t want to share my personal data and be gate-kept by a company, just to use hardware that I ostensibly own and is sitting in my living room. It’s too bad, because from what I read, the sound quality is excellent.
Why didn’t I ever think about RS232 control with an ESP32 device? Great idea!
So the LG TV can get connected to the local network without an app or cloud account? Perfect! I guess HA integration for a soundbar would be a nice-to-have-feature, but not critical. It would be nice to have Music Assistant connect to it directly for music playback, but as long as it turns on and off via CEC, I can continue to play music through Kodi/LibreELEC.
Absolutely! I guess I left out the part about what I want to do. I have an RPi4 with LibreELEC for media playback, so getting a smart TV and never connecting to the Internet is a fine plan. I want to be able to control the basics with HA, like powering it on and off, changing volume, and such. The RPi can turn on the TV that I have using CEC, but the TV doesn’t support powering itself off via CEC. And, even if it did, it’s a chore to integrate CEC with Home Assistant automations.
Long-press (or long-click) on the “Home Assistant” title at the top of the sidebar. That brings up a dialog box in which you can hide the items you don’t want to see. (It’s available in user settings, too, but this is a shortcut.)
The Sonoff iFan03 ought to do what you want, but it’s WiFi. Supposedly, you can flash new firmware to get rid of the eWeLink cloud app, but I haven’t been succesful with that yet. (I may have fried the serial port?)