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they do not actually give the user access to general purpose computing in the sense that the users can control exactly what computations the device is going to execute

What prevents the creation of an App that allows one to do exactly that?

If port 502/TCP is open you can probably access it via Modbus protocol. Implementing a Modbus client is trivial.

My rebranded Fox ESS hardware has it enabled and there's even official documentation of the so-called "registers".

SmartOS 6 months ago

The first link's broken as it includes the semicolon.

I'd rather focus on standardizing a transparent and privacy safe way to gather these metrics. Consumers would know what metrics are collected and there would be guarantees that privacy is kept.

I'd rather see laws to have it disabled by default. People who don't mind can then opt-in again.

Go-Safeweb 2 years ago

The phrase "SSL added and removed here" from an NSA slide comes to mind.

The Scale of Life 2 years ago

Fantastic. But needs support for URL parameters to change things like the default units.

This old device should support pulse tone dialing, but it did not work with mine. Might be the custom firmware, might be AVM dropping support in later versions, I'm not sure.

The timings of the phone's rotaty dial might be off. Allegedly FritzBoxes are rather conservative when it comes to these timings.

I just had the same problem with an old Tischfernsprecher W 48 which neither worked on a FritzBox 7560 nor a 7590. Adding a pulse to tone converter solved the problem.

Btw, in case pulse dialing works with a FritzBox one can dial # via hook flash. This allows to dial the internal numbers [0].

[0] (in German) https://www.wasser.de/telefon-alt/forum/index.pl?job=thema&t...