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Digital-Nebula / hackvue

Hacks and docs for the popular BlackVue dashcams
MIT License
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Hacking the iOS client #3

Open drewwells opened 6 years ago

drewwells commented 6 years ago

Have you been able to trick the app into thinking it's on the BlackVue WiFi? Right now, the iOS app prevents connecting until it's on the WiFi. I haven't determined if it's looking at the network IP or possibly the name of the WiFi network. It would be nice if the wifi mode supported any IP address, so we can connect to it directly from our home WiFi networks.

cscashby commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately my Blackvue has died - sorry for radio silence. I need to get it back up and running again! I did find that yes - it seems that the app requires the blackvue device to be connected; it may even do it by BSSID (i.e. Wifi MAC) - so without a bit of hacking will be hard to fake.

drewwells commented 6 years ago

I reached out to BlackVue 🙏

It would be nice if they were more open source about the software.

drewwells commented 6 years ago

Response from customer support,

Your dashcam MAC for cloud is almost the same as the MAC for direct wi-fi (you may refer to the sticker on the dashcam for the information). Please let me know your wifi SSID or Serial number to give your MAC that can be register to your router.

It seems that the client might be using a pattern match on the MAC to identify the BlackVue. I'll try cloning it at some point and seeing if that enables WiFi mode in the app.