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by saidinesh5 2637 days ago
Hi, Not the maintainer of the above library, but this seems similar to a reverse engineered library for a couple of other chinese wifi quads.

Someone created a chrome app for their specific model a couple of years ago, and their notes are available here [1]:

> The commands are simple 8 byte packets sent continuously over UDP.

> The drone creates an unprotected wireless network and streams live video to an android or ios app named 'RC-Leading' (there are dozens of near-identical apps from the manufacturer)

> The drone's IP is always 172.16.10.1

> I've captured the communications between the drone and app and there seems to be several rounds of back and forth of ~100 bytes worth of non-intelligible data over the TCP 8888 port before the video streaming begins (I assume this is some kind of app level handshaking)

> It streams unencrypted video over TCP port 8888 (I can view video frame info using ffprobe on captured packets)

There was a similar hackaday project for this [2] and some of their notes are at [3]:

1) https://www.reddit.com/r/HowToHack/comments/4512il/how_to_ha...

2) https://hackaday.io/project/56102-reverse-engineering-a-dron...

3) https://steemit.com/drone/@highonapples/reverse-engineering-...

(edited for formatting)