17,000 Browser Mod devices cleared by a Claude-written script
Browser Mod created a device for every browser session and slowed Home Assistant to a crawl, until a Python script from Claude deleted them all.
Credits
- Reddit poster Dunnowhathatis Source ↗
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The full story
The Browser Mod add-on created a device for every browser session the poster opened, leaving more than 17,000 devices and a nearly unusable Home Assistant interface. They could not even uninstall it, because the screen would not load with so many devices.
They had Claude write a Python script that deleted all the entries, and the system is back to running fast. Their advice is to take a good backup before installing Browser Mod.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Beware of Browser ModReddit poster: DunnowhathatisPosted
The maker's post on r/homeassistant.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Beware of Browser Mod (opens in a new tab)