Is this still maintained?

[pounard]

Hello!

Latest commit is now 1 year-ish old, and there is not much activity in issue queue, is this still maintained?

[flyize]

Essentially, no

[pounard]

Thank you for answering! Is there any alternatives?

[jacotec]

Let's say: It works as-it-is with the older hub firmwares. As the latest hub firmware locks this project out (and noone found out yet how to downgrade the hub), I guess new features are useless until some enthusiasts builds a hub replacement.

Stupid strategy from SurePetcare in my opinion. But I don't know alternatives (and hope my hub will never die)

[plambrechtsen]

Everyone had covered it. If you are lucky enough to have a hub that hasn't been updated over 18 months ago you are able to work with it.

But I am not really maintaining it due to work commitments and being disheartened that surepetcare locked me out of the firmware and have not provided any real alternative.

[plambrechtsen]

The alternatives are.

• build a new hub using a Zigbee radio either the mrf24 I started building.

• build it on a ESP32 C6. I did have a look at this but their Zigbee driver seems to be closed source and it didn't have a basic 802.14.5 packet interface unlike the MRF24 so it would be a whole new world of pain building the driver first before even getting into interfacing to the hub.

If you're a c developer and up for a challenge then I have some code I started. You will also have an interest in reverse engineering to take the existing hub firmware and decompile some of the radio functions as there is an XOR function I never completely reverse engineered. But there is a gidra project if you're interested.

[plambrechtsen]

This code is probably going to be the only path forward once the xor key is cracked.

https://github.com/plambrechtsen/pethublocal/tree/main/WemosPetHub

[pounard]

Let's say: It works as-it-is with the older hub firmwares. As the latest hub firmware locks this project out (and noone found out yet how to downgrade the hub), I guess new features are useless until some enthusiasts builds a hub replacement.

Stupid strategy from SurePetcare in my opinion. But I don't know alternatives (and hope my hub will never die)

Problem is, I can't manage to install the HA addon, it always end up with an error and no logs. That's why I was asking.

Thank you all for answering!

[DataBitz]

Let's say: It works as-it-is with the older hub firmwares. As the latest hub firmware locks this project out (and noone found out yet how to downgrade the hub), I guess new features are useless until some enthusiasts builds a hub replacement.
Stupid strategy from SurePetcare in my opinion. But I don't know alternatives (and hope my hub will never die)

Problem is, I can't manage to install the HA addon, it always end up with an error and no logs. That's why I was asking.

Thank you all for answering!

You may have a conflict with another HACS integration or extension. I have had this in the past, try disabling all others and see if it starts working.

[flyize]

Let's say: It works as-it-is with the older hub firmwares. As the latest hub firmware locks this project out (and noone found out yet how to downgrade the hub), I guess new features are useless until some enthusiasts builds a hub replacement.
Stupid strategy from SurePetcare in my opinion. But I don't know alternatives (and hope my hub will never die)

Problem is, I can't manage to install the HA addon, it always end up with an error and no logs. That's why I was asking.

Thank you all for answering!

You have an old hub that has NEVER connected to the internet in the last couple of years? If your hub is recently purchased, or has been connected to the internet - don't bother as you have been locked out.

[flyize]

Your best bet is to keep an eye on this.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/local-deployment-for-sureflap-surepetcare-connect-using-only-local-mqtt-broker/274494/558

[pounard]

You have an old hub that has NEVER connected to the internet in the last couple of years? If your hub is recently purchased, or has been connected to the internet - don't bother as you have been locked out.

My hub is connected for 4 years~ish, so I guess I'm fucked...

[flyize]

Indeed you are. No need to waste time on this project unfortunately.

[pounard]

Thank you for answering once again. OK, I'll try to see if other projects exist. I'd love to get rid of that hub anyway.

[plambrechtsen]

I was looking to see if I could figure out flashing the old code back onto the hub @pounard . What has happened however is it is a two step process where they first flash a new bootloader on and then the new firmware.
I have a copy of the old firmware here: https://github.com/PetHubLocal/pethublocal/tree/firmware201/pethublocal/firmware but I don't have the old bootloader as the hubs are shipped with the bootloader on it. Also I haven't managed to dump the existing firmware including bootloader using a pickit so that avenue hasn't worked out.

[cintema]

Hi,
I'm more or less confused and I simply cannot figure out what the current status of the project might be.
You are describing a way to downgrade the firmware here: https://pethublocal.github.io/firmware
However, now you're writing that you couldn't work it out yet. So, what ist the current status, eventually? Is it still worth buying a hub device or is shall we rather wait for someone figuring out a reimplementation on a zigbee device (which one?) as you mentioned here:
plambrechtsen/pethublocal#15
I feel the documentation might be outdated.
Thank you in advance!