re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

Same.

My hub is sitting in my closet waiting for Cad's "Wink Hub for Retards" guide to become available.

sorry guys..been busy. y'all are gonna run me out of town on a rail if this doesn't go as planned.

i'm working with the guy who has the android app; actually told him i'm willing to sacrifice 2 of my hubs to the cause if we can get his tool to work.

i have one rooted hub, but its not the best experience because of the fact i have to roll back the wink app on my phone to add devices.

with nash's android app, if he finishes the UI to add devices locally (no cloud dongle) then the firmware its running is less relevant since you can go back & forth between the normal wink cloud..or your local hub adding directly to it.

long term you want newer firmware updates so the other piece to the puzzle is using the root admin to manually update firmware without losing root access.

ideally this app should do both; root your wink and also allow for admin updates to the firmware.

finally, the sql-injection script guy has been doing some tests and that may provide a second way to gain root; even if the firmware removed the dev user exploit.

i'm hoping for that 'one button' app so i don't have to type up a 10 page essay on the rooting process.

Tell the truth, you get a chubby thinking about this.

Just got my hub in tonight.... i better not open it.

so how much longer cad, ill open it tonight

well i did root my EVO 4g back when you had to type commands into the bootloader, so it isnt new to me. If i root the long way will this app be any use after that?

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If i root the long way will this app be any use after that?

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yes. but there are 2 things you need to consider (as i understand it)

1. root using the long way provides root access but you will need to roll back your wink app on your phone to add devices since they added a check in the phone app to not add devices if you're not running v .33

2. root using long way and manually update the firmware to .33 (a little more tricky) and you're good to go.

The other options (neither of which i've confirmed) are:

3. install it as normal but don't update. if this works and you don't lose root, you might still have to run the older apk to add devices because you're in the same situation as #1

4. wait for BLINK to install the rooting scripts automatically and possibly also update the firmware parts necessary to get you current.


4 is the riskiest because you're at the mercy of a single developer and who knows if he might decide to simply abandon the project.

If #3 works, that will tide everyone here over (its a simple matter to swap APKs to add new devices and then update to the current one) until the tools get a little less funky.


I would normally have a write up by now but the baby has been keeping me very busy when I'm at home and I don't have my wink at work to play with.

Nice.

Hopefully I'll have time to mess with it tonight.

Lol. I was just searching xda yesterday looking for a wink root thread. Glad to see this project steam rolling along. So it doesn't autoupdate the hub when you get it connected?