How to install magspoof module/application

NFC
#1

Noob here. I’m trying to install the magspoof tool onto my flipper from this repo: https://github.com/dunaevai135/flipperzero-firmware/tree/feature/nomodule/applications/magspoof and can’t figure out how. I’ve tried uploading it to my SD card into the apps folder and installing alternate firmware but for some reason I can never run it from the NFC menu shown here: https://cdn.flipperzero.one/bank_card_2_cut.mp4. I know this is probably a very stupid question but thanks for any answer!

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#2

There are a lot of projects in various states of functionality. That one may not work or it may be meant for a different version of the firmware. Sadly we may never know. This project looks abandoned by the author. You could attempt to contact the author.

#3

Hi were you able to get this working? How did you attempt to install the application?

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#4

I don’t know the current working state but there is a project that looks promising.

#5

Hopefully we get to see this working soon.

#6

Unfortunately I can’t solve your topic, but I want to help describe the issue. If I ‘download the files and upload on SD card’, as written in the first post, I get nothing as well.
The reason is: The Flipper can’t handle .c (source code) or .h (header) files. The needs to be translated (compiled).

The Flipper-folks are very friendly. They provided us non-embedded-programmer-folks scripts to make the process as simple as possible.

Prepare the environment and get the source.

$ cd /opt
$ sudo mkdir git && sudo chown $USER:$USER git && cd git
$ git clone https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware
$ cd flipperzero-firmware/applications_user
$ git clone https://github.com/zacharyweiss/magspoof_flipper
$ cd ..

Now we have the official flipperzero source in /opt/git/flipperzero-firmware and the magspoof source in /opt/git/flipperzero-firmware/applications_user.
If we take a look into the Application.fam of the project, we get in line 2 appid="mag",.

We are in the base of the flipperzero-firmware. Here we start the build and tell the appid: $ ./fbt fap_<appid>

$ ./fbt fap_mag
... wait ... wait ... wait ... wait

There will be no ‘wait’ on the screen, just some cryptic environment prepares. toolchain setup, drivers download, … embedded stuff. You need to be online for this process.
If you do not trust the flipper team or the developer of the app, you should do this on a different computer than reading your emails or view pictures of barely clothed woman/man … The scripts will do some voodoo, that needs a little time to understand.

After the preparation, the compiling is starting. And for this specific project it will fail. There is already an issue on github: Build fails · Issue #7 · zacharyweiss/magspoof_flipper · GitHub
I do not wonder, because the flipperzero-firmware is under heavy development and the used functions are pretty deep.

Solutions

  1. Read the error, understand the meaning and fix the code
  2. Wait for the maintainer/programmer to fix it
  3. Do all the steps above, but with an older version of flipperzero-firmware

You can do 3. with git checkout $hash and the hash of the releases can be found here: Releases · flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware · GitHub
It is the cryptic number on the left hand, under the version. f.ex:

4 days ago
skotopes
0.85.0-rc
1ac1f0b

The latest Update on the magspoof project was 4 month ago. I don’t know what date is today, so someone else should answer which release was 4 month ago, but this looks good:
0.78.0-rc
e9984f8

This was more blah blah, than I wanted to spend on this topic. For a good topic it would be enough to write: source, command(s) and used system with version, what is the output and maybe what do I expect instead of this output.

An example without the whole blah blah blah:

Hey folks, I want to use the magspoof app on my flipper.
I cloned the source from GitHub - zacharyweiss/magspoof_flipper: Work-in-progress port of Samy Kamkar's MagSpoof project (http://samy.pl/magspoof/) to the Flipper Zero. Enables wireless emulation of magstripe data, using the inbuilt RFID coil as an electromagnet. to my applications_user folder and started <user>@<host>:/opt/git/flipperzero-firmware$ ./fbt fap_mag

After a while an error came up:

[...]
applications_user/magspoof_flipper/helpers/mag_helpers.c: In function 'tx_init_rfid':
applications_user/magspoof_flipper/helpers/mag_helpers.c:131:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'furi_hal_ibutton_start_drive'; did you mean 'furi_hal_ibutton_pin_write'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  131 |     furi_hal_ibutton_start_drive();
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |     furi_hal_ibutton_pin_write
applications_user/magspoof_flipper/helpers/mag_helpers.c:132:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'furi_hal_ibutton_pin_low'; did you mean 'furi_hal_ibutton_pin_write'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  132 |     furi_hal_ibutton_pin_low();
      |     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |     furi_hal_ibutton_pin_write
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
scons: *** [build/f7-firmware-D/.extapps/mag/helpers/mag_helpers.o] Error 1

I don’t know what this means, could you give me any hints?

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#7

Looks like the app is for different firmware version. They changed iButton/1-Wire APIs some time ago.

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#8

I had one the other day that was compiled for my current firmware but apparently an older version. Very difficult to keep up with the firmware evolving so fast.

#9

I am REALLY confused about this. Can someone explain this to me as if I’m a 3 year old? I can’t seem to figure out how to install this at all.