Hi all, I discovered home assistant today while trying to ressurect my smarter v3 kettle from the clutches of unpaid server bills.

I've been chatting away with Gemini and it's suggested I can send the boil commands directly to the kettles IP address but literally nothing I've done today has worked.

Am I the blind following the blind (AI) down a rabbit hole to nowhere? Should I just give up? Is my smart kettle just a dumb kettle now that requires me to go downstairs to boil it with the cold winter mornings around the corner?
The command its been repeatedly telling me to use is different variations of:

1. Boil to 100°C

This is the command you've been trying to run.

• Hex Packet: \x15\x64\x00\x7e
• Breakdown:
  • \x15: This is the "Start Heating" command.
  • \x64: This is the target temperature. 0x64 is hex for 100 (100°C).
  • \x00: This is the keep warm time in minutes. 0x00 means 0 minutes (off).
  • \x7e: The "End of Message" terminator.
• Terminal Command: Bashecho -en "\x15\x64\x00\x7e" | nc 192.168.0.129 2081