Documenting my journey through reverse engineering private APIs, smart home automation, open-source developments, and privacy experiments.
How I got fed up with vendor app lock-in, reversed the Bluetooth protocol, tracked down the secret keys, and built a custom Home Assistant integration that actually respects my smart home.
How I figured out what requests my air quality meter was sending, decoded the data, pulled it into Home Assistant, and made cloud uploads optional.
Reverse engineering a private Android API to extract prepaid electricity balances, live power consumption, and historical usage data into Home Assistant.
A customized open-source app to sync Do Not Disturb and Bedtime mode between a Pixel phone and a Galaxy Watch outside the Samsung ecosystem.
Reverse engineering the Truecaller API to integrate caller identification into an open-source Android dialer, getting accurate caller ID without sacrificing personal data.
Leveraging Google's ML Kit and Tasker to generate on-device smart replies for any incoming message directly from a fitness tracker.