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		thingsgoup on Dec 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering the Nest home/away API Did you look at possibly reversing the payload from the API into the device (vs. from the webapp into the API), and if so did it seem tractable? Nice write up thank you for sharing.

emilburzo on Dec 18, 2020 [–]

Do you mean reverse engineering the API response from the "set home/away" command?

If yes, then I sort of[1] do this for the "status" part of the response, so I can give useful error messages back (e.g. wrong "structure id")

[1] https://github.com/emilburzo/nest-rest/blob/master/src/main/...

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