Living in the boonies in Germany: Not going to happen. But whenever I’m in a city, the car usually gets stored in a car park for the time I’m there. Way too annoying compared to public transportation.

Buy a modern electric vehicle. You can charge at home on your own plug.

And then my car started displaying ads for subscription services.

Okay, I took that personally, documented it and filed a complaint with the KBA as this started to become a security issue, can’t have the navmap disappear in the middle of a busy intersection. And then that shit stopped again. And as soon as the car is out of warranty, the USB connection to the data modem gets disconnected. I’m lucky enough that that’s still a possibility, but if it weren’t, 🤷

How about a relatively liquid glue injected into the speaker housing? That should solve that permanently.

Sometimes you do a thing because you’re spread thin, and then it works, and then something else comes up and THEN when someone points it out the whole company does the equivalent of me, groaning myself up from the couch after the rain stopped on a Saturday cause there really is no excuse anymore to get around clipping the hedges, goddamnit.

Yeah, when I bought mine I saw to it, that it had a local API. That’s a buying requirement by now.

Check yours, often they speak at least modbus TCP and then one can hack something with HomeAssistant.