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Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024)
How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.
So many modern products depend on an internet connection and cloud account for basic functions, and who knows what unnecessary data they collect or technical vulnerabilities they add to the home network? If we're going to hack this device to be controlled by custom software, we're going to need to understand its current capabilities and plan a point of attack, requiring the least amount of work to achieve our goal. But in reality, I was often in the dark, unsure if the next thing would work or not, and juggling many tasks and theories, iteratively making progress in multiple places to test my assumptions ASAP.
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