Siri, please open the door

This is a small personal project from 2013.

"Siri, please open the door" is a plugin to Siriproxy to enable iPhone Siri to open apartment doors with commands like "Please, open the door" (see demo). It was part of a bigger Raspberry Pi-project to hack my friend's apartment door system to enable remote unlocking.

Hacking Siri to follow custom commands is not the easiest thing in the world. First, you need to set up Siriproxy as a gateway between your iPhone and Apple's servers. To be able to hijack the connection, you need to install a DNS server, set up your router or phone to use the custom DNS server and forward Siri's server domain guzzoni.apple.com to Siriproxy instead. Siri will only accept the new server if it is trusted, so you also need to create a self-signed certificate which says that the Siriproxy-server is Apples servers. Finally, you need to install the public key of the root certificate you signed the certificate with, onto your iPhone. After all that you should be able to use Siri just as normally with your custom commands.

Demo

Demo on Youtube

Yes, it does in fact open the door

Installation

Build and install the bundle

gem build siriproxy-dooropener.gemspec

gem install siriproxy-dooropener-0.0.1.gem

Add sirirproxy-dooropener to Siriproxys config file (Eg. ~/.siriproxy/config.yml) The name of the directory must be siriproxy-dooropener. The path should be the path to the parent directory of siriproxy-dooropener. siriproxy-dooropener should not be included in the path!

plugins:
- name: 'dooropener'
  path: '/path/to/plugins/'

Reload SiriProxy

siriproxy bundle

Run SiriProxy

siriproxy server

Questions?

Feel free to send me an email if you have questions about the project.

License

MIT