Good post. Honestly though, I’m more interested in making smart devices dumb. Rip out their Wi-Fi hardware etc.
I had a tesla gen3 wall charger. I updated it and .. crap ... it created a wifi access point that I did not want and would not go away.
so I decided to disconnect the external antenna. unplug the mmcx connector and easy peasy disconnected.
...and the wifi board switched to its internal antenna which was just about as strong.
so I thought... Hmmm.. maybe I can add a dummy load. I wired up an mmcx->rp-sma wire plus a dummy load.
same thing. It may choose the strongest input? or do diversity?
I've now been thinking of downgrading the firmware.