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. Type Article Published 03 Feb 2024 Read Time 68 Minutes Recently, I've been slightly obsessed with connecting anything and everything in my house to open_in_newHome Assistant. There's something so satisfying about having everything connected and automated in one application; I can finally forget every random mobile app for a different brand of smart product. But there is one product I own that stubbornly doesn't connect to anything other than its own mobile app. It's a sleek air purifier that is unfortunately let down by its disappointing app. 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? I want to control this expensive air purifier just like the rest of my smart gadgets. And that marks the start of t ... Read full article.