cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593

I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

• https://github.com/Andre0512/hon
• https://github

I dug through the prime deals and picked out the relevant devices, for which I have personal experience using, and would recommend to others.

Every device linked, will work with home assistant, more or less natively. The majority of them, are flashable to esphome or tasmota. And ALL of them will work 100% locally.

A real-time sankey diagram showing energy flow within my house.

Details, How-to, etc: https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/home-assistant-energy-flow-diagram/

Flashing even more sonoff s31s.

https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/sonoff-s31-low-cost-energy-monitoring/