GPS Jamming and Spoofing Detection Added to Fieldwatch
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GPS Jamming and Spoofing Detection Added to Fieldwatch

Fieldwatch 1.1.23 just got more useful on your map. 🛰️

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Fieldwatch already detects drones, decodes their Remote ID, and plots the drone track and pilot location in TAK. Now it also watches your phone's own GPS for possible jamming and spoofing. When it hits, your marker in TAK gets flagged so your whole team sees it right away.

Runs on the same Android device as ATAK. Free, open source, receive-only, and fully offline. The only official release is on the GitHub releases page.

github.com/OffGridPete/Fieldwatch

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u/fildline — 6 days ago
▲ 2 r/TireQuestions+1 crossposts

Help wanted: decoding Goodyear Bluetooth (BLE) TPMS sensors

I'm trying to work out the advertisement format of Goodyear's BLE tire sensors. These are the tire-mounted "intelligent tire" sensors, not the 315/433 MHz valve-stem TPMS most cars use. I couldn't find a public decode anywhere: rtl_433, Theengs/OpenMQTTGateway, Home Assistant and ESPHome projects, and GitHub code search all came up empty. If you've seen this format or have any info, I'd love to compare notes.

What the radio looks like

- BLE advertiser, LE 1M PHY, non-connectable (broadcast only), no name, no service UUIDs

- Public, stable MAC in Goodyear's OUI `7C:E1:52` (for example `7C:E1:52:02:E1:D8`, `…:03:FF:8D`, `…:04:28:96`, `…:04:44:E6`)

- Manufacturer data (AD type `0xFF`) with company ID `0x0B99` (The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company)

- Full AD example: `11 FF 99 0B 01 05 5B CA FF 22 04 30 02 A0 DA 43 B4 01`

- The manufacturer payload is always 14 bytes (positions counted from 0):

```

pos:  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13

01 05 TT PP xx xx 04 30 SS rr rr 43 cc 01

```

Sample payloads

```

01 05 5B CA FF 22 04 30 02 A0 DA 43 B4 01   tire A, Aug 16, parked

01 05 5C C9 FF 22 04 30 02 40 F3 43 B4 01   tire A, Aug 26, start of drive

01 05 61 C9 FF 22 04 30 03 96 F3 43 C0 01   tire A, Aug 26, ~8 min into drive

01 05 5E C8 09 32 04 30 04 38 5B 43 B7 01   tire C, Sep 28 evening

01 05 59 CA ED 34 04 30 02 0E C1 43 4B 01   different vehicle

```

Four of these sensors are always heard together (one car's set), across sightings weeks apart.

What looks solid

- Bytes 0, 1, 6, 7, 11 and 13 (`01 05 … 04 30 … 43 … 01`) never change, so they're framing or type bytes.

- Bytes 9–10 are a 16-bit little-endian sequence counter. It goes up by exactly 1 per advertisement, rolls over (`DAFF` then `DB00`), and keeps climbing across days as a lifetime counter. So there doesn't seem to be a checksum, integrity code or encryption.

- Byte 8 is a transmit mode or rate, taking values `02`, `03` and `04`. At `02` it sends about once a second, and at `03`/`04` it slows to about once every 10–60 seconds. It backs off from `02` to `03` to `04` over time while parked.

Hypotheses (not confirmed, please poke holes)

- Byte 2 may be temperature. It ranges from `58` to `64` (88–100), climbs from `5C` to `61` over an 8-minute drive, and reads higher on hot Florida afternoons. Maybe raw °F, or °C with an offset.

- Byte 12 also rises with heat and driving (`B4` to `C0`). It could be a second, finer temperature, or bytes 11–12 (`43 Bx`) could form one 16-bit value.

- Byte 3 sits at `C8` to `CA` (200–202) and drifts down slightly over weeks. It could be pressure (200 kPa is about 29 psi), but it flickers by 1 between packets and didn't rise as the tire warmed on a drive, so it might be battery or something else.

- Bytes 4–5 are constant per sensor: `09 32` on three tires of one car and on an unrelated sensor, `FF 22` on the fourth tire, and `ED 34` on another vehicle. `09 32` read big-endian is 2354, or 235.4 kPa (34.1 psi), a typical placard pressure, so this might be a target or configured pressure. `FF 22` might mean "not set."

What would help

- Any Goodyear, SightLine or TDK documentation, or a known decode for company ID `0x0B99`

- Captures from anyone with these tires, ideally with a gauge reading and a tire-temperature reading at the same moment

- Ideas on bytes 3, 4–5 and 12

Thank you.

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u/fildline — 16 days ago
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I built a receive-only Android observer that can push nearby Wi-Fi/BLE radios onto the TAK map as CoT

Built this as a field tool, then wired it into TAK because that’s where I actually wanted the hits.

Fieldwatch is a receive-only Android app. It listens to Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth LE advertisements the phone already hears, matches them against a signature catalog (200+ device types, plus ones you add), and can push detections to ATAK / WinTAK / iTAK as CoT. No dongle. No account. No backend. Offline. It does not transmit, connect, deauth, or join a network.

What it does:
• Identifies advertised radios from a stock signature library (200+ types) and lets you add new ones in-app
• Flags stable, non-rotating addresses when a device is using a public/static MAC instead of a rotating private one
• That includes a lot of vehicle-side sources that don’t randomize — infotainment / head units and TPMS sensors are the usual examples
• Watch list + beep / voice / on-screen alerts
• Decodes Broadcast Remote ID (ASTM F3411 / FAA Part 89) from BLE when a UAS is transmitting it (aircraft ID, position, related fields)
• Optional TAK feed: detections go out as CoT so they show up on the map with the rest of your SA
How this is useful here:
• Drop a named radio on the map instead of keeping it only on the phone
• Watch-list a specific vehicle by a stable infotainment or TPMS address and get a CoT when that address comes back
• See public-safety / body-cam class BLE or Wi-Fi that happens to be advertising nearby
• Put a Broadcast Remote ID contact on the map when a drone is talking BLE RID
• Share the same picture with the team over TAK instead of reading a list off one EUD
• Works disconnected — useful when you’re already on ATAK in the field and don’t want another cloud app

Limits, because this crowd will ask: it only sees what stock Android Wi-Fi scan + BLE advertising scan will give you. Randomized MACs, asleep radios, Classic-only Bluetooth, cellular, and anything the OEM scan quota hides will not appear. No direction finding. A match is a signature + address + RSSI over time, not a legal ID.

Android 10+. Sideload. MIT.

Repo (source, APK, manual):
https://github.com/OffGridPete/Fieldwatch

Would love to hear your feedback if you try it.

u/fildline — 22 days ago

Finally upgraded the home network to the UDM Pro Max

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I just upgraded my home setup from the UDM Pro to the Pro Max. I had this space in the wall made 25 years ago when the house was built. I haven’t kept it the neatest, but it’s constantly evolving. I’d love to find a nice rack door that I can somehow attach to the front and maybe add some lighting. It’s currently running a USG Pro Max with two 8TB drives, two 24-port PoE switches, three Access Points, a Synology DS1821+ NAS with 80TB, one AI Key, 10 cameras, two relays, a bunch of sensors, two UPS units, and a 5G backup. There’s also a legacy NVR with three remaining cameras that will soon be gone.

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u/fildline — 3 months ago

My Home Express Setup

I wanted to share my home espresso setup, which lives in what we affectionately call “The Back Room” at the rear of our house. Though the bar area could certainly use a bit more space, it has become our absolute favorite room in the home.

The area features a dedicated television channel that continuously cycles through important morning news, appointments, family photos and memories from past events. A selection of Scotch (mostly), along with a few other whiskeys, lines the rear shelf, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere perfect for both morning espresso rituals and the occasional espresso martini in the evening.

Here’s what I’m currently running:
• Rocket Bicocca espresso machine
• Mählkonig E65W GBS Espresso Grinder with the smaller 0.25 kg hopper
• Puq Gen 5 M3 auto tamper
• Mählkonig Sync Scale

The combination has been delivering consistently excellent shots, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the workflow in this personal little sanctuary.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, recommendations for future upgrades, or tips for making the most of our beloved space.

u/fildline — 5 months ago

My home bar.

Because it is located at the rear of the house, we refer to it as the Back Room. The space features its own dedicated television channel, which continuously displays a variety of information, including photographs from past events. A selection of Scotch (mostly) among a few other whiskeys are displayed on the rear shelf, and the room also serves as the morning coffee station.

u/fildline — 5 months ago