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  • apparent 2 hours ago ago

    > With that in mind, Kevin O’Reilly, the executive director of the FULU Foundation (it’s an acronym for Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users), a nonprofit that fights for consumer ownership of devices, runs a bounty program that involves awarding money to people who can restore functionality to devices that have been bricked by manufacturers.

    This sounds awesome. Would be amazing if someone could do this for the Google Nest Protect system, which was bricked last year.

  • apparent 3 hours ago ago

    With garage doors, at least you can make a physical device that literally depresses the button (and perhaps optionally has a camera to show the current state). Other devices aren't so amenable to physical fixes like this.

  • fsagx 7 hours ago ago
  • mystraline 7 hours ago ago

    Good on him!

    I went with 2 https://opengarage.io/ and it integrates with HomeAssistant quite nicely. It also has ultrasonics to detect cara as well.