Taking the Google out of Google Home Mini with Nginx and Music Assistant | Diogo Torres Correia

A developer successfully isolated a first-generation Google Home Mini from Google's servers while retaining its utility as a local Music Assistant streaming speaker. Using a NixOS router, dnsmasq, and an Nginx reverse proxy leveraging a recent certificate authority compromise, the author intercepted TLS traffic to selectively allow only necessary casting libraries and endpoints. This setup achieved local control over the device while blocking telemetry and voice assistant features. Open article →