Market seems to be doing this for us so far.

Namecheap API works just fine with Certbot DNS challenges for me, FWIW.

I don’t use Haier products but a similar thing happened with Chamberlain when they blocked the MyQ integration even though it was using the legitimate API and not breaking any rules. No attempt to work with anyone in the HA community at all, just shut everything down.

On one hand, this means projects like Home Assistant are getting popular enough to have enough usage to effect these companies. So that’s great! In the long term, we’ll all figure out solutions, but in the short term it feels like an increasing fight between corporate and open-source control over smart devices.

IMO, it’s also worth the yearly cost for voice integration with Google Nest/Home or similar devices. Both can be done without paying but it’s so much easier and I know it’ll be supported over time.

“I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” Boebert told TMZ

Doesn’t this entirely invalidate the claims of people like Boebert that woke-ism ruins people’s personalities and thought processes? Shouldn’t she be able to see that this guy was a degenerate trans groomer or whatever without needing to know his “political affiliation”?

If not, perhaps the negative side effects of people-with-different-opinions is not actually a fatal condition, after all.