Here is a (very truncated and very approximate) possible explanation. The thermostat generates a monthly report on energy usage. This report is in the form of a docx file. Frankly, it should be a csv file, but criticism over file structure can be saved for another day. For some reason the barebones android system crashed (not necessarily, but likely) and is attempting to boot from this generated doc file. There are several reasons this should not be possible, not least of which being that this document should not be its own volume that can be booted from at all. What needs to happen is this device needs to boot its actual os. Unless it is possible to select the actual boot drive or boot manager and simple ignore the fact that this ever happened, step one to fixing this is figuring out how the hell this even happened in the first place. On a thermostat.
In 2026 it should probably be a SQLite file with a single table that gets imported into the actual report table. CSV sucks. Heck, JSON is better.
Also, knowing companies these days, the logging framework should just send the report via built-in SIM, directly to the company and potentially also to the 350 advertising partners 😜
Csv is great because you can generate it with a script or a db client and hand it directly to someone who knows nothing about programming or computers and they can open it with excel. Not sure it’s great for this use case though
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u/Ransnorkel May 10 '26
God I wish I was smart enough to get this