re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

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Wait for CAD to post his guide for root.

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sorry guys; newborn kept me up all night and i'm tired as frick. its really cutting into my 'wink' time

the gist of the wink root world is the following:

- the apple root guide is slightly wrong; you should not add the 'wink-api' domain to your hosts file or else it wont connect to WINK so you can use the phone app. there are also a couple of things you need to do to manually update the firmware and retain ROOT which is important if you want to run the latest firmware on the hub or.....

- you need to grab an older version of phone app (which i have) to setup your devices because wink updated their main app to look at the firmware of the hub and not allow device setup if youre running the older firmware once you've added your devices, you can update the app again but adding more devices later on will require you to 'downgrade' the APK again temporarily. kind of a PITA at the moment.

- there is another exploit -- using clever SQL statements to possibly gain root which means rooting it now may not be necessary if you can still get root access after the update..but this isn't confirmed.

- better tools are in the works to make rooting this easier and i want to incorporate them into my guide because that will save everyone some headaches..particularly if you're not used to SSH-ing into a remote web address and using the 'curl' command tools.

- yes, i'm doing it on windows, there are a couple things you need to install but like i said above, there may be some better tools coming soon.

any other questions at this time?