Is there an end-to-end description?

Question

Is there an end-to-end description?

klaernie opened this issue 2 years ago · 10 comments

klaernie commented 2 years ago

Could you please provide an end to end example how you integrated your mailbox sensor?

I for one would be very happy to get a working mailbox sensor and status updates into my home assistant instance.

Thanks and nice work!

Answer 1 · 2022-06-03T11:47:28.000Z

Hi,

I would love to help you with this, sadly there is a bit of infrastructure involved that I am not willing to make public.
Essentially, here is the whole structure:

Mailbox sensor -> some random iphone -> apple cloud -> openhaystack server running on a mac -> code fetching and decrypting reports -> cron-script fetching and decoding the mailbox sensor data -> openhab.

Since all of the components would allow for easily making undetectable trackers I prefer to not just put that information out there.

I am willing to help you with this though, so if you have any questions here I will gladly answer them.

You should start off by getting openhaystack to work with an ESP32 or nRF boards, we can take care of the rest after that.

Answer 2 · 2022-10-16T21:11:43.000Z

Could you show the line in the code, where you put info from mailbox?

Answer 3 · 2022-10-16T23:45:30.000Z

That's done by another piece of code that is not public. Sorry.

Answer 4 · 2022-10-17T19:33:07.000Z

There are already papers on creating undetectable find-my network trackers.

Answer 5 · 2022-10-17T19:34:46.000Z

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3463676.3485616

This has been public for 2 years I do not believe your code would cause any real security vulnerability

Answer 6 · 2022-10-17T22:43:37.000Z

If it's all public you shouldn't need my code. I am open to answering questions.

Answer 7 · 2023-01-25T12:39:53.000Z

@darthnithin it's not an issue of public knowledge, it's an ethical hacking issue.

Answer 8 · 2024-06-01T21:27:11.000Z

Late to the party, but couple questions:

How often does your cronjob fetches reports from apples servers?
how do you send notifications to your phone once a new report with changed value comes in? I'm not familiar with OpenHab there which you mentioned.

Thanks

Answer 9 · 2024-06-02T00:22:55.000Z

@rkreutz By now I am using node-red for all the faketag stuff.
It fetches reports for all airtags once a day and immediately notifies me if the battery is low or the tag is lost.

I am using Telegram for the push notifications, since it's incredibly easy to create bots and send messages to yourself / others.

Answer 10 · 2024-06-02T09:23:01.000Z

Thanks. I Was thinking about telegram as well since it's easy to create a bot, thanks for the info