My problem is my state (MI) refuses to enact any kind of road worthy certification process. We have too many trucks and cars with illegal headlights and brake lights. I’ve seen green, blue, purple headlights (mostly modded jeeps) and taillights so tinted I couldn’t see them stopping during the day. And lifted trucks that never reposition their lights so you are blinded no matter what you drive.
We get laws that stop the new tech of active dimming but at the same time we have lazy chicken shit cops that just let these distracting things that are already illegal just slide on by. Might as well buy an import with the good lights or import the parts and install them yourself.
The wifi ones work with Home Assistant so you won’t lose remote features. The bad news is you have to run home assistant and set it up.
As for the BT only version you need more work and a BT proxy. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/anova-ble-control-via-ble-proxy/550295
If it was pulling a cable anyways you could have had it tethered so you wouldn’t have power issues and the danger of the WiFi dropping out from the metal duct. If it was pulling Ethernet the whole thing could have been POE but I guess if you were pulling off a spool you wouldn’t be able to PoE the whole spool. Either way that’s an interesting solution to not have to fight with fish tape.
Do these come flat packed is that what the tool is for or do you form the whole thing first then use the tool to bend?