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The AI revived my decade old smart plugs in five minutes

He remembered some smart plugs more than ten years old that use Bluetooth, and found Home Assistant could talk to them by pretending to be Apple HomeKit, but some functions were missing. He asked the AI to reverse engineer the plugs, and five minutes later they were fully revived with fully local control, with even more controls than HomeKit offered back then.

How it works

  1. He finds Home Assistant can interact with the plugs as HomeKit
  2. Some functionality is missing
  3. He asks the AI to reverse engineer the plugs
  4. Five minutes later the plugs have fully local control, beyond what HomeKit supported

Why it’s worth knowing

Plugs more than ten years old got full local control in five minutes, including controls the original HomeKit support never had.

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Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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