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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
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Lol, practically guaranteed that this is modeled after funding it entirely on surveillance stalkerware. Article does not make any mention of who is hosting, software openness, transparency, or ownership. Sorry OP for the negative comment, and thanks for making the effort to post. For the sake of the public, this article is nothing more than an ad, with no relevant informative value required for skeptical citizenship in any democracy. It is crap journalism, like whoring for capitalism.
I agree with you, very little information was provided but I presume this is just Tuya or some similar OEM brand and maybe you can install a local control and cut the cloud part of the equation.
At the moment it is pure speculation on my part, but I am sure there are plenty of smart folks out there who would love to tinker with it and maybe find a way to install some custom firmware to cut the stalkware.
To confirm the suspicions, yes, it is Tuya. It actually says so on the box. I'm still going to grab one, though: quite often the chipset can be reprogrammed and the fact that the specs say it's 2.4GHz only make me think they're using something pretty old-fashioned like an ESP32. Tuya stuff that advertises being dual-band generally isn't worth bothering with at all.
It's a shame that tuya stuff, even cut from the cloud, still has so many issues integrating with ESPHome.