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by climb_stealth 971 days ago
I'm not GP but I have used it to debug my car remote. It was unlocking but not locking. Used the Flipper to confirm that the remote wasn't sending anything on lock button presses. Solved it with opening up the key and some cleaning of the PCB. Was very helpful there as it was otherwise quite tricky to work out where the problem was.

Otherwise haven't found any use for it. I wanted to use it to clone my garage remote but couldn't get it to work.

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You could have used a SDR for that, which is a fairly interesting piece of kit with - arguably - more wholesome uses than the flipper.
Yeah I guess so. Though it's something I'm not familiar with. And the Flipper was something I had at home already. To be fair until then I couldn't find any use for it.

In my opinion the whole appeal of the Flipper is that it bundles a bunch of radio gadgets and makes them easy to use and accessible. Are there better tools for each job? Definitely! But I presume setting up an SDR would have involved a fair bit more research and work. On the Flipper it took five minutes of trying out the different modes.