Well, some people in the “inner circle” might have some idea about the direction they want to take. But I very much doubt that anyone outside of that circle knows anything substantial. And in the end, that website is called MacRumors for a reason. They splurt out various things to keep people speculating and engaging with their site - which earns them money. But that’s about it. I’ve removed them from my feed reader ages ago.

It’s a rumour. Nothing else. Not even Apple knows what they’ll release in 2 years.

Might need some

if (ob_get_level()) ob_end_clean();

before the readfile. 😉

And if you want some customisation, e.g. some repeating string over and over, you can use something like this:

yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

yes repeats the given string (followed by a line feed) indefinitely - originally meant to type “yes” + ENTER into prompts. tr then removes the line breaks again and head makes sure to only take 10GB and not have it run indefinitely.

If you want to be really fancy, you can even add some HTML header and footer to some files like header and footer and then run it like this:

yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | cat header - footer | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

Unless you share the boiler’s output with someone, I’d be surprised if you didn’t have access.

But still, if you don’t want to mess with the electrical connections, manipulating the radio waves works just fine. :)

Very happy with it. I’m running it with an SQLite database, so no extra database server is needed. And I’m using Elk as a frontend for when I don’t feel like using an app.

On the receiving end of this controller, there’s probably just a relay shorting 2 wires from the boiler together - like the Honeywell BDR91.

So, you could just replace that by some Shelly switch and wouldn’t have to use the proprietary radio protocol.

On a sidenote: Those room controllers usually “learn” how long it takes to reach the target temperature (as this can be vastly different between summer and winter) and move the starting time accordingly. So they reach the target temperature at the programmed time. At least the more expensive ones do. You’d have to do something similar in your automation if you want that comfort. (Unless HA already has some code for that…)