From company statement:
> Our customers rely on us to make access simple without sacrificing quality and reliability. Unauthorized app integrations, stemming from only 0.2% of myQ users, previously accounted for more than half of the traffic to and from the myQ system, and at times constituted a substantial DDOS event that consumed high quantities of resources.
Yeah, that sounds plausible, because:
- Home Assistant users are power users, thus more likely to actually use the devices in question;
- Official IoT software and integrations are uniformly shit, designed to discourage effective use (while maximizing data collection).
Thus, I read this statement as: "We're not happy that some of our customers decided to actually use the 'smart'/'connected' aspects of our product; our service-providing part was not ready to provide the service, and unlike the data collection part, it was never intended to."
> Our customers rely on us to make access simple without sacrificing quality and reliability. Unauthorized app integrations, stemming from only 0.2% of myQ users, previously accounted for more than half of the traffic to and from the myQ system, and at times constituted a substantial DDOS event that consumed high quantities of resources.
Yeah, that sounds plausible, because:
- Home Assistant users are power users, thus more likely to actually use the devices in question;
- Official IoT software and integrations are uniformly shit, designed to discourage effective use (while maximizing data collection).
Thus, I read this statement as: "We're not happy that some of our customers decided to actually use the 'smart'/'connected' aspects of our product; our service-providing part was not ready to provide the service, and unlike the data collection part, it was never intended to."