Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

Post by nunez » Sun, May 31, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC

MostlyStable wrote: post #176

nunez wrote: post #159

I'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…

This seems like less of a reason to get off of Homeassistant and more a reason to stop buying closed source/cloud only products to connect to HomeAssistant.

Post by joe_mamba » Sun, May 31, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #145

joe_mamba wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>- Germany has drastically cut back on foreign aid funding, which in return killed off a lot of the goodwill Germany enjoyed in the Global South, we all know that China and Russia filled the gap. Germany now surpassed the US as the biggest foreign aid spender in the world, in absolute terms, not per capita

> Germany now surpassed the US as the biggest foreign aid spender in the world, in absolute terms, not per capita A lot of the foreign aid budget is going to Ukraine [1], and the sum that goes to Ukraine isn't even including military aid. Note, I have zero issue with aid going to Ukraine, and in fact it's still not enough - the issue I have is that a lot of other places simply fall through the gaps. [1] https://de.st…