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https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/blob/main/takedown_faq.md China doesn't rate a mention. What does rate a mention is Haier's own people being on the record that their HON app is such a failure that the bulk of the traffic is generated by the HA plugin, which actually is more economical network wise than Haier's app. Also notable is the fact that they are talking out of both sides of their mouth, they claim they love 'open' and 'API' use but at the same time would like everybody to use their app, but since it is (1) crappy and (2) closed source and so not easily integrated it is logical that the people that need it chose to roll their own. It's remotely possible that there is an instruction from China to Haier Italy that they needed to take action but you'd expect there to be some mention of this. Finally, from a security perspective you r

> Haier issued the takedown notice specifically on copyright grounds From the original letter they sent [1]: >> We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company. From their subsequent correspondence also shown on that page: >> Recently, we've observed a substantial increase in AWS calls attributed to your plugin, prompting the communication you previously received as standard protocol for our company, This is true: > Google and Oracle already battled this one out, and it was decided that using an API is fair use but not really r

Developer Andre0512 has received a takedown request from Haier to take down an open source Home Assistant integration with many of their smart appliances, sold under the names such as Haier, Candy and Hoover. The HA community as a response has already created many forks at the moment of writing (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/forks) Announcement: I have to take the project down in the next few days Dear User, We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company. We take the protection of our intellectual property v

The two subject repos are: https://github.com/Andre0512/hon https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn Make whatever use of that information you will before the takedown occurs.