Hacking My Ceiling Fan Radio Signal With a $15 USB TV Tuner (RTL2832U)

[@killbit]

Great video and perfectly presented. Speed and explanation was spot on.

[@CheffreyGriffin]

I tripped over this video while searching for how to control a USB thermal POS printer with raspberry Pi. I ended up watching the whole video. Super interesting and well put together. Great video!

[@OskarP2601]

what?? this vid is rlly high quality i expected this to come from a channel with at least 200k subs. keep it up! 👍

[@jdjr3640]

Redditor here. This grade A content! Feasible, reasonable, and and easily understood! Keep up the great work! 👍

[@skeeviesteve1071]

Please keep posting videos! The subs will come, be patient.... don't change anything, these are perfect! Thanks

[@daleatkin8927]

Holy heck that is cool.

[@dennisasamoah2213]

Really mindblowing

[@cabasse_music]

this is awesome. are you using spektrum and universal radio hacker on the pi itself or do you have a desktop install of linux?

[@riveducha]

I’m running the SDR receiver on my desktop, but I don’t think there’s any theoretical reason why you couldn’t do it on the Pi instead.

[@j1_dev]

Really, really cool

[@edoncieu]

Congrats, very educative!

[@AveragePinwormEnjoyer]

I have an RTL-SDR V3. I am trying to turn this dumb fan into a smart fan but have hit a snag. I found the frequency at which the remote is transmitting using Gqrx. When I look at the same frequency using Spektrum or URH, I get no noticeable difference from the background noise. I have tried to derive any meaning behind this, but my Google-fu has failed me and ChatGPT was no help. Do you know why I might be getting these results?

[@EthanTrewhitt]

What a fantastic tutorial. Thanks!

[@tsutsid5361]

I want to see if you can hack radio with that USB

[@aim__freakz8499]

how are you always coming up with those ideas? really cool

[@Sp3rickhj]

hey i need to get the signal of a 2.4ghz controller, i can do it with a normal wifi antenna that support 2?

[@animehawaiiTECH]

Subbed! Great content! I did it with my roll up roof

[@vadimm6432]

Awesome! Thnx for sharing

[@dangerdonny]

Now do the whole house fan by Quietcool. Im pretty good with “hacking” things, but this is a bit above my pay grade. 🤣🤣🤣

[@tonkofonko]

Hello pls help. When you capture signal using RTLSDR then modify it and finally try to use rpi for TX that signal I wondering if is possible to use esp32 with cc1101 instead. Thx.

[@riveducha]

Yeah, I don’t see any reason why you can’t.

[@Alsoxavi]

Second part!!!!

[@mikietonon]

My spektrum reading is nowhere near as stable as yours appears to be. I have the exact same USB and antenna.

[@forxan]

Hi everyone, I would like to be able to receive the signal from a controller with an HCS301 (MICROCHIP KeeLoq) in the transmitter and with a PICxxx or an ATMELxxx in the receiver. There is a library for ARDUINO about receiving the signal from an HCS301 and another to emit the signal from an HCS301, but I can't find it... I'm still looking. Greetings to all.

[@peteluo5367]

Awesome!

[@shayypy]

I've been trying to do this myself, but unfortunately I'm having some trouble. I purchased the USB TV tuner linked in the description, but I can't get my computer to recognize it (I'm on windows). Spektrum doesn't seem to work on Raspberry Pi 4s, which is what I have, so no luck there, and I don't have another Linux machine available. My tuner came with a CD that includes a driver, but even after installing it I can't get Windows to even recognize that something has been plugged in. The light's on, but Windows shows nothing. If anyone has any tips they would be greatly appreciated.

[@riveducha]

Hmm, you might be able to do it on your Raspberry Pi using other programs. I know there are other programs like GNU Radio and freqshow. And even spektrum should work in theory but you might need to compile some stuff from source.

[@riveducha]

Oh, actually I re-read your comment and realized something. You probably don't want the Windows drivers that came with your TV tuner because those drivers are for watching TV. The Spektrum README says to use this to install WinUSB (I haven't tried it myself): zadig.akeo.ie/

[@shayypy]

@@riveducha I tried out that program but since Windows doesn't seem to recognize the device being plugged in, I can't select it in Zadig. I decided to boot into Ubuntu with a USB stick but the tuner didn't get recognized there either. Maybe there's something wrong with my tuner.

[@electronickal_8598]

Dud?

[@skeeviesteve1071]

Awesome