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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised these things have been on the market for almost a decade now and nobody has really attempted or figured out how to crack them and put third party firmware on them.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There is this but it's replacing almost everything inside. https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/google-nest-mini-gutted-and-rebuilt-to-run-custom-agents/ I am hoping they sell the boards but most likely won't out of fear of Google lawyers.

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago

A year or two back, I think I looked for information on them, and found a few people who disassembled them..... but, the hardware was pretty custom and specific for the application.

That being said, One of these days, I'll take apart one of the ones I have laying around here, and see if it might be possible to solder a esp32 somewhere on the board, to take control over some of the functionality.

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