But isn't encryption the road that everyone seems to be taking nowadays? Continued gleaning of data from the network just doesn't seem like it's going to be practical in the future as everyone is demanding "privacy".
Kudos to WeatherFlow for putting the live observations out via UDP broadcasts to the local subnet for any device to pick off without resorting to MitM packet interceptor hacks. Proof that a vendor *can* make the data freely available locally...if they want to. I'd be buying whatever Acu-Rite's hub of the week is in a heartbeat if it did this.....
Or you could just stream the data directly from the device, removing the restriction of having to be on the local subnet to get the data.
There are a number of ways you can connect devices on the network level, but I'll bet most consumers are looking more for some type of SmartHome integration so they don't have to do any low-level programming.
Acurite isn't blind to that. Why do you think they were in the SmartHome section of CES18? They obviously know they can't be an island.