Here at Hackaday, about the only thing we like more than writing up tales of reverse engineering heroics is writing up tales of reverse engineering heroics that succeed in jailbreaking expensive widgets from their needless IoT dependency. It’s got a real “stick it to the man” vibe that’s hard to resist.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/02/06/iot-air-purifier-makes-a-great-case-study-in-reverse-engineering/