Request to set date & time of RainBird

[mantorok1]

Hi, is it possible to set the date/time of the RainBird via this package? I can see the requests for getting them but not setting in the list of sip commands.

The RainBird app on my iPhone allows me to set it so I'm wondering if the command request(s) may not have been discovered yet? If not is there a way to reverse engineer it?

[mantorok1]

I managed to find the commands for setting the date and time. Here's the details - note that the format is in hexadecimal.
To set time:

11hhmmss (where hh is hours, mm is minutes & ss is seconds)

To set date:

13ddmyyy (where dd is day of month, m is month (1 - C) & yyy is year (remember its in hex so 2023 = 7E7 in hex)

If anyone is interested in how I found the commands I used Charles to set up a HTTP proxy and configured my iPhone to use that proxy (in WiFi settings). I then used the RainBird app to change the date and time. Charles captured the requests & response which I then decrypted to find the above commands. The algorithm to decrypt can be found here

[allenporter]

@mantorok1 thanks for sharing your method. Based on what you said, i've added a mitmproxy plugin that can decode the requests using the python code: #59

Are you up to send a PR to add the date/time command?

[mantorok1]

No worries. I can give it a crack. I'm not that familiar with the pyrainbird source code. Is it just matter of adding the new commands to the sipcommands.yaml file?

[allenporter]

I can do it if you tell me the command format. An example discussion is here #40

Also the maintainer of this library does not want to maintain it anymore so i've moved to doing development for the official library in https://github.com/allenporter/pyrainbird

[mantorok1]

I think these are command formats:

  SetCurrentTimeRequest:
    command: '11'
    parameterOne: 0
    parameterTwo: 0
    parameterThree: 0
    response: '01'
    length: 4

Where parameterOne is hours, parameterTwo is minutes & parameterThree is seconds

  SetCurrentDateRequest:
    command: '13'
    parameterOne: 0
    parameterTwo: 0
    parameterThree: 0
    response: '01'
    length: 4

Where parameterOne is day, parameterTwo is month & part of year & parameterThree is remainder of year.

The month and year are a bit tricky as the month and year are "mashed" together in the last 2 bytes. It's the same date format that is used in the CurrentDateResponse (92)

They both return an AcknowledgeResponse (01)

[allenporter]

I've added this to the library, and here is an example using the command line tool:

$ python3 examples/rainbird_tool.py --log-level=debug set_current_date 2023-01-09
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Request to line: 130917E7
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Request: {"id": 1673419656.7081575, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tunnelSip", "params": {"data": "130917E7", "length": 4}}
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "result":{"length":2, "data":"0113"}, "id": 0}
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response from line: 0113
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response: {'type': 'AcknowledgeResponse', 'commandEcho': 19}
None
$ python3 examples/rainbird_tool.py --log-level=debug get_current_date
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Request to line: 12
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Request: {"id": 1673419658.5084407, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tunnelSip", "params": {"data": "12", "length": 1}}
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "result":{"length":4, "data":"920917E7"}, "id": 0}
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response from line: 920917E7
DEBUG:pyrainbird.async_client:Response: {'type': 'CurrentDateResponse', 'day': 9, 'month': 1, 'year': 2023}
2023-01-09