Many of the integrations you'll see in Home Assistant are reversed-engineered. Usually this is done by looking at the mobile apps of many of these devices and extracting credentials, certs...etc. A few manufacturers don't love this for various reasons and try to shut it down. We end up spending time explaining to them why it will just result in a cat-and-mouse game and hurts them in the long-run.
On Seam being open source, we've debated this back and forth internally, especially given most of us came from various OSS projects. Tbh, there's already a ton of options for open sourced integrations. When/where we see one that's lacking, we may contribute ours back...etc. fwiw I don't think it's a done deal that we won't fully open source more of our infra down the line. We'll see.
On Seam being open source, we've debated this back and forth internally, especially given most of us came from various OSS projects. Tbh, there's already a ton of options for open sourced integrations. When/where we see one that's lacking, we may contribute ours back...etc. fwiw I don't think it's a done deal that we won't fully open source more of our infra down the line. We'll see.