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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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