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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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Some enterprising engineer should start selling replacement control boards for these units. Like, drop-in, solder-on clones with 100% open source control firmware, linked with an ESP32. Zigbee/Zwave/Wifi+MQTT. I don’t mind, I’ll buy their unit and throw out their shitty controller. They’re not gonna DRM the compressor, are they?
Hell, if someone does that I’d consider opening a shop where I flip “refurbished” units with the open source board in em.
Please don't give them ideas.
It's what was done for Panasonic ACs: https://www.espthings.io/index.php/2023/09/02/esphome-panasonic-climate-interface/
I'm sure somebody will take a really close look at Haier ACs now.
There is no market for doing this at all, why would any company worth their salt do it?