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What type of data is this?

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone would be able to recognize what type of data this is? I have a physical device (SkyTrak) which analyzes a golf ball (launch angle, spin, speed etc.) and passes the data to an app on the iPad. I can see the data being passed from port 5024 on the device to a port on the iPad (in this case 57471). When I do a port scan using Mac Network Utilities it seems to show a SCTP Telnet port but I am unable to Telnet to the port directly.

I am hoping to capture the data into a human readable format and save it to a local excel file but I am obviously unable to decode the dataset.

Please note that I have transposed some of the serial number details.

Thanks in advance

While I am not sure if it is helpful or not, the wifi device being used in the unit is a Inventek es-Wifi (Maybe ISM43362-M3G-L44).

Data set 1: (initial device connection to the ipad)

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Dataset 2: (I believe this is the data which is shown when I actually take a swing with the device)

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asked 25 Feb '15, 13:29

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shifter
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edited 25 Feb '15, 13:33

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I doubt you'll have any luck anyone reverse engineering this for you, especially when you do not provide a capture file instead of that unreadable ASCII dump.

By the way, all those "." are non-printable numbers, but they're probably all different, so you lost a lot of information by exporting your data like that ;-)

(25 Feb '15, 15:37) Jasper ♦♦

Thanks for the comment Jasper - As suggested, below is a link to the capture file.

Re: ASCII dump - thanks for the heads up - since it was the only piece of human readable text (with the serial number of the device showing) I assumed it was the most decoded content.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pryn5k2exd2alzv/Skytrak1.pcapng.gz?dl=0

(25 Feb '15, 17:27) shifter

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well, by looking at the text export of the data, I can literally see a bad slice. The reason could be a grip that's too soft. Furthermore the launch angle is a bit low with 17 degree. I guess you are hitting the ball to early. A better stand and a better alignment to the ball could help to optimize the launch angle.

Seriously, there is no easy way to decipher the communication as that's a proprietary binary protocol. With a lot of reverse engineering (especially by looking at the iOS app internals), one could probably figure out how their protocol works, but that's gonna cost a lot of time and/or money. I guess it's much easier to contact the vendor and simply ask for that information and/or ask them to add data export features into their tool.

Regards
Kurt

answered 26 Feb '15, 01:45

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edited 27 Feb '15, 15:24