Until recently, the Google Home app used to communicate with the device over port 8008 (HTTP) and did not require any authentication. Everything in the unofficial documentation worked as expected.
A few days (weeks) ago, Google pushed a new update to all GH devices and all endpoints (except /setup/eureka_info) started returning 403 (forbidden) errors. The app had switched over to port 8443 and HTTPS.
| I was able to install FreeBSD on GCE in a very direct way, without the hurdles of Qemu, gcutil, and the FreeBSD installer. All are great tools, but I think my apporach is somewhat more suitable for GCE, or at least much simpler. Much of this is well-known practice for installing manually, with some fluff for managing it as a disk image, as well as the few odd networking requirements of GCE (MTU and netmask). | |
| My basic approach is to: | |
| * Use my FreeBSD machine at home to build a self-hosting "rescue" disk image for GCE. | |
| * Start a temporary Linux machine in GCE from a provided image. |
| # terminfo and termcap for nice 256 color terminal | |
| # allow bold colors - necessary for some reason | |
| attrcolor b ".I" | |
| # tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground | |
| termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' | |
| # erase background with current bg color | |
| defbce "on" |