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A project log for Shark Robot Vacuum Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering the Shark RV1001AED series Robot Vacuum

jon-steelJon Steel 06/03/2022 at 14:170 Comments

Finally got SSH working, and it was fun!!!

Once the sshd config, and ssh starting script in init.d were modified I tried starting sshd. I was presented with a notification that /var/empty must be owned by root, and cannot be group or world writable.

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Made some progress, but despite the config files, sshd does not want to point to the host keys.... I broke that I bet. Simply grab host keys and put them where sshd thinks they should be... okay, oh wait, the pub keys are in an  invalid format?

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Ok, SSH to the robot.... YAY!  Now I can easily move files around in the R/W directories, and no more serial cables... the robot is now free of its umbilical!

Next will be playing with the mp3 sound bank... I think it should be pretty easy.

Then I will look at some of the applications in the /res directory... it looks interesting!

Yeah, sorry, I know I don't have any screen shots... I was in the zone.

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