This entire thing is simply ridiculous, and infuriating! Just sell me a car, or TV, or washing machine, etc. Don't sell me a multi-layered safe with different combinations for each level.
Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
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Re: Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Nordstream was privately funded, half by Gazprom, half by a consortium of privately owned large utilities And do you also believe what Merkel said that "it's purely a commercial venture"? Who chairs those "privately owned large utilities"? What are the links between those people and "the establishment" that includes people like Merkel (earlier Shroeder - his work for Gazprom was also purely commercial venture of a p…
> And do you also believe what Merkel said that "it's purely a commercial venture"? That's not the point here (and for what it's worth, Nord Stream should never have been started in the first place, and we should have cancelled it the day that "little green men" arrived in Ukraine). My point was and is that Germany is traditionally very reluctant in handing out government funds and especially government-backed debt t…
>Germany is traditionally very reluctant in handing out government funds and especially government-backed debt to private industry
Not true. Most of Germany's economic growth since 2022 has been due to massive government public spending, since private investments are down.
The problem is US finances startups who have to either scam private investors or actually innovate to survive, whereas german government funds only politically connected dinosaurs who don't innovate.
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#163I've been doing smart home stuff for a long time. This is one of the reasons why I got off of Home Assistant. It's a very cool and functional project but it is entirely dependent on companies keeping their APIs open, or, more commonly, companies not patching teh magic that makes reverse-engineered APIs possible. Unfortunately, developments over the years have NOT gone in their favor. Tesla, Ring, MyQ, Ecobee and prob…
That's a frying pan => fire situation. I started my home automation journey in the same way, and being HK-centric is pretty decent. HA with 100% local-control devices that _bridges_ to HK is what I'm looking at next.
Often, the HK-only devices are terrible wrt WiFi stability, and I need to pay more attention to how matter/thread is working lately.
I know some people complain about zigbee/zwave but they've been way better on average than HK over wifi.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I completely missed that. I've been using python-garminconnect [0] for a few months without issues. I agree though that it's annoying, though not reason enough for me to switch away from Garmin yet. [0]: https://github.com/cyberjunky/python-garminconnect
Same here. I've been scraping the data from my Garmin watch for years with very little problems (first with https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB , then https://github.com/sealbro/dotnet.garmin.connect ). The only annoyance is that Garmin requires 2FA if you enable the ECG feature on your smart watch/fitness tracker, but I have a small program that reads the 2FA codes from my Gmail inbox and supplies them to the scrape…
Have you looked at the feasibility of making your own CIQ app to push data from the watch to your alternate internet endpoint?
I have the impression there are permissions and APIs to access sensor history and activity records, but I haven't had a need to dig in and learn what restrictions there might be...
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#165Wasn't the EU Data Act ( https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-act ) put in place to exactly prevent these kind of scenarios (Article 4 and 5)? "where the user cannot directly access the data from the connected product or related service, the data holder must make the readily available data and necessary metadata accessible to the user without undue delay, in the same quality as available to the data…
Volkswagen has an EU Data Act site:
Re: Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I was under impression that absolute majority of startups in US are fully funded by a (private) venture capital. Tesla got a shitload of government funding, including a 465 million dollar loan [1]. SpaceX was effectively funded by NASA in its early days. In total, the Muskverse alone got 38 billion dollars [2]. Bezos' Blue Origin got at least 1.5 billion dollars [3]. Sure, by number most startups are fully privatel…
>Tesla got a shitload of government funding, including a 465 million dollar loan How much money, grants, tax-breaks, favorable loans and regulation, etc did the German, French, Italian car companies get from their local governments? > But that doesn't mean the US government isn't willing to help things along, at least for those well connected. As if Schroeder, Merkel, Scholz, etc didn't roll over backwards for their…
> How much money, grants, tax-breaks, favorable loans and regulation, etc did the German, French, Italian car companies get from their local governments?
Nowhere near close to that.
Re: Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
#167Wasn't the EU Data Act ( https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-act ) put in place to exactly prevent these kind of scenarios (Article 4 and 5)? "where the user cannot directly access the data from the connected product or related service, the data holder must make the readily available data and necessary metadata accessible to the user without undue delay, in the same quality as available to the data…
Indeed, this seems to be exactly the area where the Data Act could be used to regain access. Unfortunately it seems that it's not possible to directly sue (e.g.) Volkswagen to get access, unlike the GDPR where you have direct standing under article 79 [1]. There doesn't seem to be much written about enforcing the Data Act, so I looked at the regulation directly. Article 39 [2] seems to require to first lodge a compla…
The hoops the EU goes through to be both a federal and also not a federal entity at the same time is crazy
Just let the EU enforce these laws like the US DOJ or FTC would. If I had to file a complaint with the Alabama FCC or the Mississippi Federal Reserve to get relief under federal regulations I would quite simply not bother
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#168I recently saw a group of automakers together during an event. The contrast between Chinese and Germans was bizare. The group of german automakers were older men in black suits all wearing badge with titles like Senior Executive Sales blablabla. Whereas the Chinese were all young people wearing causual clothing and much more engineering minded. No wonder why european auto makers are doing so badly. They forgot to ple…
Are the Chinese particularly open API-wise here? Another user says BYD applied the DMCA to his repo that reverse-engineered their app (necessary because there's no other way). I think European auto-makers are probably doing poorly because a regime shift occurred in battery tech and EVs became much more useful and EVs are a manufacturing problem that advantages the guys who've been manufacturing electric motors and disadvantages the guys who manufacture cutting-edge gasoline engines.
I'm reminded of the fact that when I got a Roomba ten years ago the box said that the device was open and hackable. Searching online, the text looked like:
> This robot contains an electronic and software interface that allows you to control or modify, and remotely monitor its sensors. For software programmers interested in giving your iRobot new functionality we encourage you to do so.
My Dreame X40 Ultra does work flawlessly with Home Assistant but it carries no such text. In the end, I prefer the working to the text (so perhaps the Chinese companies are better), but things have changed over the intervening years.
Re: Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
#169BYD DMCAd my whole repo to connect to their cars... https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/05/2026-05-2... It's a shame these car makers are locking down their cars (which are brought for a premium!) and going on a crusade against open source.
Have you moved it anywhere else? I checked codeberg and didn't see it there.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Volvo is also doing pretty good with offering an official API
And, does the Volvo community have something like TeslaMate built upon the API? It's not sine qua non factor but it will move the scale a LOT in favor of a brand.
Probably not yet, so far all I've done as an owner was generate an API key and set it up in an integration in Home Assistant so I can track my state of charge over time. I'm sure more software will come!