I believe this is one of those Google “F it I am going to make this protocol my own way without anyone else’s input” which results in security concerns and also Mozilla prioritizes it being a browser more.

Searching serial looks like this is still the case. There are security and privacy concerns over it.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

You can do a few things to reduce interference if the device broadcasting the signal supports it. Unifi APs support these settings. Most routers with WiFi probably do not support transmit power.

1. Adjust transmit power to lower setting
2. Higher the frequency, shorter the range (but that frequency may be highly used in the area), so #3 is the better option
3. Analyze the frequency usage and picking a frequency that is least used
4. If 2.4Ghz band isn’t necessary disable it and only use 5Ghz since it’s a higher frequency it again has a lower range.
5. You could also faraday cage your room so the signal won’t leak out, but thats probably more work than its worth.

Looks like tesla offers a premium subscription for most things and a separate one for the fancy cruise control… So I assume you have an old model or your being a troll?

My car has 6 or 7 subscriptions I believe? I lost count.

Looks like Google cast is the protocol and it’s proprietary, while they offer a SDK, it does not appear to be open source. There is an open source alternative though. https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/

Isn’t Chromecast proprietary though?

“If you’d like to set a timer with a specific time, please subscribe to Amazon timer unlimited. You have a trial available, would you like to activate your free trial?”

Security by obscurity the 100% least effective security measure! Wait what? MS left the government knowingly vulnerable for years for the shareholders?! That’s some good security right there!

Those ar ehonestly not priced as bad as I thought for them not being able to sell your data.

My biggest productivity issue with windows 11 is using the shortcuts WIN + NUM (1-4 generally) I have my browser set as 1 and often use it to get to it. Unfortunately there is a bug in 11 where it can do 2 things.

1. Display the windows but won’t let you select one
2. Lock me out of everything until I use the mouse

It has been an active bug for at least over a year.

If your setup allows random udp ports from home assistant out to your network it works fine. Mines running in a kurbenetes cluster.

I used a configmap that mounts the code to patch the integration so it doesn’t get overwritten. I haven’t had time to troubleshoot more though I don’t see why the patch would stop text to speak from working on the esphome devices. The code changed significantly and uses raw audio files now and the only thing I am changing is making the ports not random, but a range instead. The M5 stack firmware appears to be up-to-date too.

Issue on GitHub with all of this is here

I have this setup and using the esp my stack device mentioned in the article. The biggest problem with it is esphome and home assistant expect home assistant to be running in a dedicated device for this to work. The integration uses a random UDP port to communicate with the M5 stack device. I had to resort to patching the Integration to use a couple specific ports to work properly.

Unfortunately the fix didn’t last long and a update to home assistant updated the integration and now the text to search response fails for esphome devices. My next plan is to try to downgrade esphome integration to the old one that was patched / working and call it a day.

There are various sleep modes and it looks like Bluetooth can be active during some of them.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/bluetooth-power-management-for-modern-standby-platforms

Article said they were using Bluetooth and a app on play store / app store I assume the app measures the signal strength to determine the proximity to the devices. Maybe some laptops don’t turn off Bluetooth in their sleep state or people just weren’t putting their laptops to sleep? Could pickup tablets or phones forgotten in cars too.

I don’t think so, but it was in response to some smart people developing their government website with the database stored basically in the HTML of the website if I remember correctly. A good Samaritan reported it and was basically charged with hacking the state.

The problem is they are banning a device that doesn’t solve the issue at all except if you have a car from before the 90s. The tools being used for this are custom made with a much larger range. Maybe they should ban smartphones too since people are using them to detect laptops in cars to break into since they are being stupid about it.