Updated method of getting localKey

[dansimau]

I just purchased a Robovac G30 Edge and got it running in Homebridge using this plugin. However, it was a bit of challenge. The instructions in the README did not work for me, as BlueStacks doesn't run on M1 and EufyHome 2.3.2 is no longer supported for my device.

What did not work:

• I am on an M1 (arm64) Mac and BlueStacks is not supported on arm
  • Instead I used Android Studio to run an Android emulator and install the EufyHome APK
• EufyHome 2.3.2 does not work at all with my device. It gives me a message that the app is outdated and I need to update to use it with the Robovac.
• The patched EufyHome 2.4.0 APK (from these instructions) also did not work. As described by @lvcabral here, my device shows up but appears as "offline".
• As such, the script being worked on in https://github.com/mitchellrj/eufy_robovac/issues/1 also does not work, I get the error: The length of the provided data is not a multiple of the block length (as described here)

What did work:

What worked for me was to spy on traffic on the latest version of the EufyHome app. One of the API responses has the device ID and localKey.

Instructions for macOS arm64:

• Install Android Studio, start Android emulator
• Install Android platform tools (brew install android-platform-tools)
• Download the latest EufyHome APK from here and install it on the emulator (adb install -r ./com.eufylife.smarthome_2021-11-25.apk) (note: I had to increase the free space allocated to the emulator, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/35828035/417083)
• Install mitmproxy (instructions here)
• Bypass certificate pinning using Frida (instructions here)
  • Follow all the steps in there, but on the last step, close the app in the emulator, then launch it again using: frida --no-pause -U -l ./frida-script.js -f com.eufylife.smarthome
• Log in on the EufyHome app with mitmproxy running
• Inspect responses in mitmproxy, one of them will have the localKey

Hope this is useful for someone.

[familyofharris]

hi i tried but i dont know what I'm doing with android studio?? can you help me to get it working please ? thanks steve

[lvcabral]

I have managed to use the old method (using the 2.4.0 APK) by creating a new account (and pairing the robot) using the old app, I suspect the creation of an account using newer apps is using a different type of ID and switching something on the backend that the old app (2.4.0) does not recognize. I created a new account with a different e-mail and it showed the local key. After that I managed to login on my iPhone with the latest app and it works. So I do recommend to keep the old app on an android device or VM.

[martijnpoppen]

@dansimau I use a similar approach to get the localKeys. but instead of mitmproxy I use fridump. With fridump you can dump all frida data and it will have the localKey in it.

link: https://github.com/Nightbringer21/fridump

terminal tab 1:

frida --no-pause -U -l ./frida-script.js -f com.eufylife.smarthome

terminal tab 2:

python fridump.py  -U -s com.eufylife.smarthome

cd dump

strings * | grep <insert device id>

This method also works for the new X8 robovac

[apexad]

looking to work on https://github.com/apexad/eufy-robovac/issues/14 soon so this issue is not important anymore.

[lkucera]

I have managed to use the old method (using the 2.4.0 APK) by creating a new account (and pairing the robot) using the old app, I suspect the creation of an account using newer apps is using a different type of ID and switching something on the backend that the old app (2.4.0) does not recognize. I created a new account with a different e-mail and it showed the local key. After that I managed to login on my iPhone with the latest app and it works. So I do recommend to keep the old app on an android device or VM.

unfortunately this doesn't work with some vacuum, the old App will simply not find them...