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by theragra 25 days ago
Yeah. It makes me wonder if it would be possible to reverse engeneer firmware for popular TQ ebike motors. This firmware can be downloaded if you intercept dealer tool API calls. I have no experience at all with this, otherwise I would probably try. I decompiled dealer tool, but it it quite complex WPF app and I cannot make it compilable. Make latest iteration of Claude can. It takes a lot of time, otherwise I would be probably try again.
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__mharrison__ 24 days ago
If it has an android app, you probably can. The AI will most likely decompile the app and inject bits necessary to figure out reverse engineering.

At least that's what happened when I created a Python sdk for my $500 video light.

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theragra 17 days ago
It has an WPF app, which I tried to decompiled already, but firmware is a different beast. App downloads firmware during update proces. I have no idea about format or MCU used.

I will try to reverse engeneer firmware with claude when I will get all things needed for that.

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