Ask HN: Mi Band Xiaomi hack?

2 pointsluck8710y ago4 comments

Hi, I received the Mi Band Xiaomi for my birthday. I am looking for unofficial resources and utility, and how to integrate it in a custom project. I found very few materials on github.

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kifki10y ago

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr...

This is a nice post about their protocol, although it seems that they are trying to prevent reverse engineering by obfuscating it in newer releases. There are also links to some useful libraries. Remember that MiBand can be connected to just one device at a time.

luck87OP10y ago

Thanks, this website is a pretty old, and I hope the protocol doesn't change after the firmware upgrade. The 1st hack, I'd like to do, is to use miband for notification mobile. It will be nice have a library or sdk for this purpose. For android : https://github.com/lwis/miband-notifier

kifki10y ago

Yes, I know... Developers are constantly asking for an API of some sort, but seems that Xiaomi ignores that. Too bad, since the MiBand is a nice little device. Are you trying to use it on Android? There is also an iOs library (but seems very limited) and a Python one (has a lot of functions - http://oscaracena.bitbucket.org/mibanda/api/)

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kifki10y ago

http://allmydroids.blogspot.de/2014/12/xiaomi-mi-band-ble-pr...

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