Has anybody been able to crack Garmin Dash Cam red light and speed cameras? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by dashydash@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I own a Garmin Dash Cam, and one of the features is red light and speed cameras alerts, however this feature is hidden behind a subscription, the camera doesn't require internet connection all the time, so theoretically the files could be reverse engineered. I tried to do a quick google search but got nothing, does anybody know if this feature has been cracked?

Link to Garmin website for more info: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=NjIqrNTpHR2wvQecTjtoZ6

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[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Reading the description, it does appear to regularly require internet connectivity. It says the purchase comes with a dataset of known locations and regularly gets updated.

If anything, the crack would have to be somehow getting it to use a different dataset, one that I don't know if it even exists offhand (ie some open sourced red light/speed trap dataset). And that dataset would need to be in the same format as Cyclops.