Ecoflow application local mode only

[dobrishinov]

Hey, great progress guys!

I found also when I looked into the original app, Ecoflow team is using TCP packets to send or receive data in local mode. It will be great, maybe in the future if someone would release a third party application or HomeAssistant plugin with pure local usage.

I also checked couple of time how to bypass ecoflow servers, because I want to use the device in pure local mode. It's very odd if I want to use offline the Ecoflow series with their original app, why they don't want users to using the local connection without to verify and login in their servers. They don't send any emails or notification when they change the servers with the new version 3 of the app. (I didn't received anything in advance). I was a little disapointing when I run for emergency yesterday the Ecoflow River Pro and I saw the application is updated and wants to connect River Pro again to thier servers... So I fix today that problem... I edit their latest version of the application, so now it's not required to login anymore. The application is working without internet and only with local connection... Cool, right?
But the problem now - how legally and safe is to share that version of the application with the community? Haha... 😄

Regards ❤️

[franki29]

HI, I am not a legal professional but if you edit the original one I would not share it, and also it will depend on the country you are living if it is critical or not.

A HomeAssistant plugin is here https://github.com/vwt12eh8/hassio-ecoflow, not sure if it works with your version of the ecoflow.

Give it a try.
Br. Frank

[v1ckxy]

@dobrishinov I was checking the original source code of the app and in local mode the application communicates through a bytestream. It is somewhat documented in the app code.

The problem is that nowadays I don't have enough time in order to create some kind of app to communicate with it :D

[zevv]

@dobrishinov : " edit their latest version of the application,". Sweet. this is something i'd like to reproduce. Was that something simple like modifying the manifest to start at the main activity instead of splash activity, or did this involve changing java/dalvik code?