https://blog.akjohn.dev/tags/ai/Recent content in Ai on John KuruvilaHugoenFri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-the-ddpai-z50-dashcam-api/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0530https://blog.akjohn.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-the-ddpai-z50-dashcam-api/TL;DR The official DDPAI app never once connected to my dashcam, so I mapped the camera’s undocumented local Wi-Fi API and wrote a zero-dependency Python client for it — and found that the camera’s own settings API is far bigger than the app’s UI admits. The phone side turned into an Android app, because Android makes a dead-end Wi-Fi network surprisingly hard to automate. Almost all of the code here was written by AI agents working under my direction.