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Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

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I'm more concerned about why you would need a remote for something that depends on you being there...

There was a toilet in Japan I couldn't for the life of me work out how to flush, I spent ages in this bathroom checking for buttons here and there. Only after I had given up and walked away from the toiled did it flush.

That's been a constant refrain about IR auto-flushing toilets for about 30 years. They were invented in 1988.

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How do you get the details of the remotes you're replacing with it? Scanning through frequencies? Don't they have "secrets" for the actual ACK that lets your in and garage doors rotate through codes do they not? Just curious.

There's a few tools for figuring out radio stuff. The first is super simple, it just scans through the frequencies and tells you which is the strongest. Most devices will put this in their manual but it's nice to not need to have to look it up. Once you know the frequency one option is to just take a raw sample at ____megahertz and play it back on demand. This doesn't work for some radio signals because they use roll…

> (be VERY VERY careful using a Flipper with a car key fob, because they can sometimes go out of sync and you can't open your car afterwards)

FYI many cars with "keyless" entry have a traditional keyhole hidden under a piece of trim around the door handle and a key (sometimes plastic) hidden inside the fob; sometimes the key is part of the ring for a keyring, and can be released by pressing on the manufacturer's logo or inserting a paperclip in a hole.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

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Got mine about a month ago and love it! The unleashed firmware is easy to install and you can get some De Bruijn sequence files for messing with 443Mhz garages and gates like the old OpenSesame by Sammy Kamkar. I can’t wait to see what plugins people will make for it!

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Cool piece of hardware, however their software TX lock is bullshit. They didn't claim development platform exemption with the fcc like with a hackrf, ettus, etc. Users are forced to use custom firmware to unlock the full potential of the hardware.

The support person astra on their web forums goes around telling people its illegal to discuss things involving TX'ing and capturing rolling codes of a keyfob. I can't tell if it's plain stupidity or gas lighting...

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I love how movies show hacking devices as super serious futuristic goggles the open 6 different terminals that patch you through sockets on satellites, but the best thing in real life is a dolphin tamagotchi.

Which in turn may be a reference to the time when a movie showed an actual dolphin as a hacking device: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OM59U4-z0

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Likely because the company is Russian.

They're shipping from Hongkong per their FAQ [1], and are incorporated from the US [2] [1] https://flipperzero.one/faq [2] https://www.flipperdevices.com/

I can't load either of their sites because our network blocks all Russian IPs.

LinkedIn indicates 15 of their 16 employees are based in Russia.

Re: Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

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Cool piece of hardware, however their software TX lock is bullshit. They didn't claim development platform exemption with the fcc like with a hackrf, ettus, etc. Users are forced to use custom firmware to unlock the full potential of the hardware. The support person astra on their web forums goes around telling people its illegal to discuss things involving TX'ing and capturing rolling codes of a keyfob. I can't tell…

Their original firmware is open source? Or is custom firmware a hassle?

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yikes that guy has sub dermal implants - is this common in your country?

It's not exactly common in the US, but enough people have them that it isn't surprising to see.

Perhaps we run in very different circles, but I would be pretty surprised to see them!
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