Smart home devices should work without the internet

Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by goodmythical on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:16PM (#50444024)

I haven't figured out how to recieve pings from my weather stone, I've always got to get up and look out the window, which, then I can just see the weather.

Anyone made any progress on rooting it?

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by bee_rider on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:44PM (#50444426)

You don’t need to root your weather stone. You’ll want to root your weather tree. Rooted weather trees give you better long term data (if the tree is flourishing, the weather was nice all season). Unrooted weather trees just let you know if it was raining in the last couple days (still an upgrade over a weather stone, but not by much).

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by wafflemaker on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:49PM (#50444487)

To root it you need the special USB version, called USB pet stone.

You can then flash new firmware over USB.

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by subscribed on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:32PM (#50445117)

Just shine a laser on it?

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