On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:31:54 -0000, Mel Beckman said: > I just bought a $20 Lacrosse remote RF temperature sensor hub for home, the > GW-1000U. It does the usual IoT things: after you plug it in, it gets a DHCP > address and phones home, then you register it using a smartphone on the same > LAN, which I'm guessing finds the device via a broadcast and then configures > the hub with my Lacrosse account info. All communication is thereafter through > the cloud.
That last sentence is sub-optimal. And as you note, things go downhill from there....
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