I love all the local firmware swaps people are doing these days. I'm waiting on the day I can swap all my Google Homes to be Home Assistant powered. It'll probably (almost certainly) require a hardware swap to an ESP32 but I'll do it anyway as long as it's pretty straightforward.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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While I also am all for firmware swaps, just to be clear, this isn't a swap on the garage door opener itself. It's a standalone controller that you run 3 (at least) wires from it to the normal wire terminals on the opener. But hell yeah, I'd love a hardware swap on all my Google home devices.
Haha I'll confess I didn't actually read the blog post. I just read the synopsis and made an assumption about it :b
I'm looking forward to stuff like that as well. I'm no longer buying any HA gear that requires any proprietary crap but it's hard to deny that my self-imposed rule limits my access to great hardware