EV charger

Sorry that was meant to be an email.

Interesting to see a commercial product using a Pi compute module :-)

(one of the researchers arguments on security seeming to be that an attacker could take the lid off and presumably swap out the Pi for one of their own).

The Hypervolt and EO chargers included a fullsize Raspberry Pi :)

Might be nice to have a Pi-powered charger, means you could put custom firmware on it if you wanted. Although at the end of the day there's probably not a lot to do with it beyond 'charge when it's cheap' and 'charge when I have too much PV'. So probably only worth it if you don't trust their cloud or if they get bored supporting it.

Theo

In the Early Amazon Echos there was a hack to update the firmware, but you still needed a couple of minutes access to the physical device to set it up to be hacked.

You hear so many badly tested or dodgy software in internet connected devices these days, that one might have thought they would have been all over this by now. A couple of years ago a well known companies heat pumps used for eair conditioning were found to be vulnerable due to poor protection from discovering their passwords to the wifi etc, which enabled nasty characters to get into the system generally, Most systems are only as good as their weakest link. Brian