My adventures into hacking a bluetooth / wifi connected trail cam.
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As laid out in my blog's work logs https://geekitguide.com/wifi-ble-trailcam-investigation-part-1/ , so far I have been able to:
1. Reverse engineer the bluetooth commands
2. Programmatically enable the wifi remotely using the captured bluetooth process.
3. Reverse engineer the http / tcp requests to pull info and files from the camera remotely.
4. Program a basic program for an ESP32 micro-controller to do so in Arduino.
5. Identify limitations of the a micro-controller for accomplishing my goals.
6. Begin writing python code for a Linux app to be able to fully manage and pull files from the camera remotely.
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Thanks Dan!
I am on Vacation ATM traveling but once I am back I will definitely update my progress.
I have a project tied to this in my next update that is an entire framework I built to help with running automations like the one I wrote for this device to allow it to act like a proper network attached appliance.
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Hey Chris --
Great hack, loved the process you documented. Nice how you turned this one around -- abandonware devices are frustrating, but it looks like you're well on your way to making this thing useful.
Thanks for the tip, wrote this up for the blog, should publish soon. Keep us posted on progress.