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## Android


### Capture https traffic

Only requires an Android device. Root not required, this captures the stream from the Android application to the Jinvoo/Tuya web servers. It does NOT capture between Android device and remote control device.

1) Remove registration for existing device if present
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4) Hit stop button back in "Packet Capture" app.

5) review captured packets (first or last large one, 9Kb of 16Kb) use macOS step 11 for guide.

### Extract details from android config file

From https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi/issues/5#issuecomment-352932467

If you have a rooted Android phone, you can retrieve the settings from the app (Smart Life) data storage. The keys/configured devices are located at /data/data/com.tuya.smartlife/shared_prefs/dev_data_storage.xml

There's a string in there (the only data) called "tuya_data". You need to html entity decode the string and it contains a JSON string (yes, this is slightly ridiculous). Inside the JSON string are the keys.