Smart home devices should work without the internet

Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by jandrese on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:58PM (#50443765)

Every cloud service will eventually get shut down. The problem is that nobody wants to put the effort into reverse engineering the product to fake out the cloud service until after the cloud service is gone and the reverse engineering is much more difficult.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:03PM (#50443853)

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850 - October 2026

https://github.com/morluto/rea

https://rea.tools

Do we just need to establish bounties per cloud service target to reverse engineer and publish a spec, copyleft code, and reference architecture? Maybe https://www.fulu.org/ could host the results?

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by BizarroLand on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:19PM (#50445746)

Sounds like you would need to connect a network sniffer into its inputs and somehow figure out how to make it figure out what responses are needed on what ports just to make a "shutup pi" type system that catches smart appliances attempts to phone home and blocks them.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:22PM (#50445783)

You have the LLM drive the man in the middle proxy.

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by bombcar on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:02PM (#50445527)

The good news is the fine friends at eMudhra have decided to help us!

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