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From the post: "With the increase in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their need to communicate wirelessly, there’s been a corresponding explosion of wireless protocols to chose from. Of course there’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but for more specialized applications there are some other options like Z-Wave, LoRa, Sigfox, and Thread. There’s a decent amount of overlap in their capabilities too, so when [SHS] was investigating some low-cost Xiaomi sensors it was discovered that it is possible to convert them from their general purpose Bluetooth protocol over to the more IoT-specialized Zigbee protocol instead."

Archive: https://archive.today/13bzN From the post: "With the increase in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their need to communicate wirelessly, there’s been a corresponding explosion of wireless protocols to chose from. Of course there’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but for more specialized applications there are some other options like Z-Wave, LoRa, Sigfox, and Thread. There’s a decent amount of overlap in their capabilities too, so when [SHS] was investigating some low-cost Xiaomi sensors it was discovered that it is possible to convert them from their general purpose Bluetooth protocol over to the more IoT-specialized Zigbee protocol instead."

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Yeah, the project for the custom firmware is OSS. You can modify it or compile it yourself and don't have to rely on a blob. One of the projects: https://github.com/atc1441/ATC_MiThermometer

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I do too, and that's about it.

Sadly, most people can't (or care) and won't bother with it.

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Yep. Then again, most people wont even consider the idea of "re-flashing" something even if they are given easy instructions and a blob they don't know what is in it..

Maybe a decade ago people were more willing to "DIY" a system or build their own stuff. Now people just want to scan a QR code and send all of their data to China because its easier. Don't get me started on shit like "Echo".. Im rolling a local-only system for that too that works with Home Assistant.