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0 pointspavel_lishin2d ago0 comments

We own a Subaru, and the app has all sorts of data in it: the car's current location, the odometer reading, and fuel status, sort of - it only displays the "until empty" distance, and the average MPG. I'm surprised it doesn't show even an estimate of how much gasoline is in it.

So if I were to do this, I'd find a way to read that data somehow, and then I'd just need to know who was driving. (Which, as someone pointed out, I'd probably do with some sort of RFID tag on everyone's keys.)

But yeah, the manual entry part would absolutely be the biggest drag here.

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Natfan2d ago

i have found a surprisingly large amount of success in uploading an .apk to Claude and asking it to extract all HTTP endpoint used and to display them as a Swagger document. most apps use HTTP(S) to communicate with their APIs, so reverse engineering is relatively trivial

chabad3602d ago

I would like to offer that as a feature. There are some companies that sell access to connected car APIs, so I would probably go through that route.

SirFatty2d ago

"I'd find a way to read that data somehow..."

Kind like the ? before Profit!

pavel_lishinOP2d ago

Yeah, without the profit :P

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