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I wish there would be an appliance manufacturer that would actually hire developers to create and maintain Home Assistant.
1. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-h...
2. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/05/03/update-from-th...
The takedown notice says that the "plug-ins are in violation of the terms of service". This is super odd. So what would happen if I never bought their product and hosted this repo - while not being a party to the terms of service?
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It's not marked as a fork in their systems. Instead, it's as if you'd written a bunch of code in a local repository and then pushed it to GitHub. It could still be identified as the same codebase by eg. comparing commit hashes or content hashes, but that's harder. If you really want to be sure, clone the repository, make a few local edits to files (eg. adding a comment to each file), copy the full source repository t…
Find the first commit and overwrite it :P
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And I don't know if it's just me, but responsiveness seems worse in recent months (using iOS app, don't know if it's the app or the bulbs or the hub). And sometimes the app is out of sync with the actual light states. I haven't seen this in years of using Hue bulbs and app. Plus finding I'm logged out and having to log back in when I just want to turn a light on/off in the middle of the night (because baby) is a PITA…
I haven't had Hue login troubles, but the quality of the light control has gone down a bit. If I tell it to turn the lights to the fireplace mode, that gets turned into multiple instructions to the light bulbs, but sometimes it drops some of them for no reason. So I get half-brightness daylight-white instead.
I'm probably going to ditch Hue in favour of smart switches and dumb bulbs in my next house, so not too worried about it.
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At the risk of asking a dumb question, what does a git push do for you there? (Fully agree on the clone locally point.)
If Github doesn't realise you forked the project, it doesn't appear in the list of forks, which a lot of companies use when sending an actual DMCA notice to Github. I'm not sure what you'd need to do to disconnect your fork, but clicking the "fork" button will often get your repo automatically taken down if the parent repository gets DMCA'd. If the commit history is different (say, because you rebased the project ont…
I noticed a potential licensing issue Home Assistant may have when it comes to relying only on an external package source host like pypi and complying with a plugin takedown request. If home-assistant receives a GPL source code request(for example due to many of the python libraries in the home-assistant docker images being GPL licensed) wouldn’t the source code to all library dependencies(including the source for hi…
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If people fork the repo, would they also be sent a takedown?
If you fork it, do a proper git clone and git push. Github can and has DMCAed direct forks in the past.
This appears to be the company contacting the developer directly to ask that they withdraw the code.
In the last half year Haier, Chamberlain, and Mazda have issued takedowns or actively blocked access to HA integrations.
> We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you [...] that are in violation of our terms of service > Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner, which is causing significant economic harm to our Company. > We take the protection of our intellectual property very seriously and demand that you immediately cease and desist…
The two subject repos are: https://github.com/Andre0512/hon https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn Make whatever use of that information you will before the takedown occurs.
If people fork the repo, would they also be sent a takedown?