ha-wyzesense VS endlessh

You may be able to buy a Wyze usb bridge for v1 and use it to connect with the Wyze sense v2 sensors via the HACS Wyze Sense Component. The integration is no longer supported, but I'm using v2 sensors with the v1 hub.

Yes. There is a standard HA integration that can be used for controlling lights and cameras. If you want to use motion and contact sensors, you have to config a HACs integration (https://github.com/kevinvincent/ha-wyzesense).

Thanks, Ill look into Aqara. I run HA and keep everything local. If I got Wyze I would get the Sense kit and use this HACS component instead of relying on cloud or Wyze app

There is an outstanding patch to add the v2 support to the Home Assistant driver using the existing v1 USB Dongle: https://github.com/kevinvincent/ha-wyzesense/pull/211

Are you talking about this project? https://github.com/kevinvincent/ha-wyzesense

I'm using ha-wyzesense through HACS. Unfortunately the clock is ticking on these sensors and I'm trying to move away from them. Sometimes the sensors themselves freeze, other times it's the integration breaking since its just a reverse-engineered hack. And they are going to die permanently one day anyway...

The original one yes - https://github.com/kevinvincent/ha-wyzesense. There are a few others but I am using this one for the last year.

You can reduce the noise a lot by moving ssh to a non standard port. Security through obscurity isn't actually security, but it will reduce the number of attempts you receive. Another thing I like to do is put Endlessh on the standard port 22. That way as bots go by they will get stuck or at least slow down on that connection.

SSH tarpit with Endlessh and for the hidden SSH: auth with both a key files (that need unlocking and is on the computer) AND an One Time Password on my phone.

If you change the ssh port, install https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh to slow down the attackers

Even this requires you to successfully guess the username and password correctly, and if it's just not the default most people won't bother brute forcing further. Sidenote: you can use endlessh on a computer and port forward port 22 to trap scanners that scan the entire internet for open ssh ports to exploit.

The fun way is moving your ssh port somewhere else and installing endlessh to f the bots.

Such as endlessh

But, as a prank to Chinese hackers, what I did on my system was to run endless ssh. It keeps the ssh client busy as it slowly sends the ssh banner. I modified the code to send strings like:

For hardening: I use lynis for some guidance, the VPS runs rkhunter, AIDE and other things nightly and mails me the reports, fail2ban manages the SSH port, having SSH on a custom port helps to keep things quiet. If you're into these kind of things, have a look at the Endlessh tarpit to learn about login attempts on port 22 on your machine - I found it eye-opening.