Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

#1

Post by luck87 » Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 10:32 PM UTC

Hi, I received the Mi Band Xiaomi for my birthday. I am looking for unofficial resources and utility, and how to integrate it in a custom project. I found very few materials on github.

Re: Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

#2

Post by kifki » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 8:08 AM UTC

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr...

This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.

Re: Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

#3

Post by luck87 » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 9:29 AM UTC

kifki wrote: post #2

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr... This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.

Thanks, this website is a pretty old, and I hope the protocol doesn't change after the firmware upgrade. The 1st hack, I'd like to do, is to use miband for notification mobile. It will be nice have a library or sdk for this purpose. For android : https://github.com/lwis/miband-notifier

Re: Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

#4

Post by kifki » Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 6:56 AM UTC

luck87 wrote: post #3

kifki wrote: post #2

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr... This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.

Thanks, this website is a pretty old, and I hope the protocol doesn't change after the firmware upgrade. The 1st hack, I'd like to do, is to use miband for notification mobile. It will be nice have a library or sdk for this purpose. For android : https://github.com/lwis/miband-notifier

Yes, I know... Developers are constantly asking for an API of some sort, but seems that Xiaomi ignores that. Too bad, since the MiBand is a nice little device. Are you trying to use it on Android? There is also an iOs library (but seems very limited) and a Python one (has a lot of functions - http://oscaracena.bitbucket.org/mibanda/api/)

Re: Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

#5

Post by luck87 » Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 12:41 PM UTC

kifki wrote: post #4

luck87 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, this website is a pretty old, and I hope the protocol doesn't change after the firmware upgrade. The 1st hack, I'd like to do, is to use miband for notification mobile. It will be nice have a library or sdk for this purpose. For android : https://github.com/lwis/miband-notifier

Yes, I know... Developers are constantly asking for an API of some sort, but seems that Xiaomi ignores that. Too bad, since the MiBand is a nice little device. Are you trying to use it on Android? There is also an iOs library (but seems very limited) and a Python one (has a lot of functions - http://oscaracena.bitbucket.org/mibanda/api/ )

Yes, I am an Android developer, but it is not the point. The point is to increase functionality, and maybe build a sort of library to handle the main functionality ( it should be really nice customize the notification). The python library looks like very nice :-) good job