Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Rick Parrish
Michael Milner wrote: I just took a look at my car's keyfob with the USRP RFX400 board (it seems to transmit around 433.923MHz. It is using FSK modulation, a few tens of kilohertz deviation. It demodulates pretty well, but the centre frequency isn't very stable (Is there any way to automatical

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Jaap Stolk
On 6/6/06, Johnathan Corgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . the sequence seems to change with each key press. See attached JPEG. I sure hope it changes every time. or you just posted your car keys on-line :-) ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Di

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Johnathan Corgan
Johnathan Corgan wrote: > I looked up the FCC ID for mine. It's allocated for use between 314.5 > and 315.5 MHz, which is I'm sure to allow cheap oscillators to be used. Woah...the FCC search has a "detail" option that comes up with a list of PDFs describing the whole key fob (URL will wrap I'm

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Marcus Leech
Matt Ettus wrote: Thanks for looking into this. I think that most keyfobs use SAW oscillators instead of crystals to save money. This results in very bad frequency drift, which the receiver will need to compensate for. Matt Many of these systems use OOK (On/Off Keying) of the SAW-based tra

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Matt Ettus
Michael Milner wrote: After the Wired article today, I've received a couple of email from people who are concerned that the USRP could be used to clone their keyfob transmitters for car alarms and garage doors. I'm not concerned, since there are already many ways to do this (just check the back

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Milner
> After the Wired article today, I've received a couple of email from > people who are concerned that the USRP could be used to clone their > keyfob transmitters for car alarms and garage doors. I'm not concerned, > since there are already many ways to do this (just check the back of > pupular sci

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 05:59, Matt Ettus wrote: > After the Wired article today, I've received a couple of email from > people who are concerned that the USRP could be used to clone their > keyfob transmitters for car alarms and garage doors. I'm not concerned, > since there are already many ways

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-05 Thread Marcus Leech
Matt Ettus wrote: After the Wired article today, I've received a couple of email from people who are concerned that the USRP could be used to clone their keyfob transmitters for car alarms and garage doors. I'm not concerned, since there are already many ways to do this (just check the back

[Discuss-gnuradio] Car alarms and garage door openers

2006-06-05 Thread Matt Ettus
After the Wired article today, I've received a couple of email from people who are concerned that the USRP could be used to clone their keyfob transmitters for car alarms and garage doors. I'm not concerned, since there are already many ways to do this (just check the back of pupular science