alt Hacker NewsInteresting timing, I have spent the last week with Claude reverse engineering the on-air protocol and I'm getting pretty close to building a secondary "listener" receiver that will collect measurements from my bridge + sensor pair locally.
To Flume's credit, it required me to dump the firmware from the bridge device's ESP8266 in order to extract my key. I didn't consider an approach like this article took, given I have direct access to the HW and there's no flash protection on the 8266.
If you document this somewhere I'd love to read about it! I took the approach of sniffing the packets between the radio and mcu on the bridge board, got most of the way into reverse engineering that, then helped build this instead:
https://github.com/tronikos/esphome-magnetometer-water-gas-m...
But I always wanted to finish pulling flume data to home assistant, without the cloud.