Rooting an Echo Plus 2 with AI
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The author documents rooting an Amazon Echo Plus 2 to run custom voice-assistant code and connect it to Home Assistant instead of Alexa. The work used MediaTek BootROM exploit tooling (MTKClient, Kamakiri) and a temporary boot-chain payload, with Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, doing most of the low-level engineering.