pipboyrelay

Relay for the pip boy app for Fallout 4

Read the blog post for more details

The entire protocol has been decoded and there are now full node bindings at pipboylib!

Requirements

• Fallout 4 for the PC or PS4. (XBONE has not been diagnosed)
• pip boy app for Android or iOS
• pip boy app enabled in-game on Fallout 4
• nodejs >= 4.x, npm

Installation

npm install -g pipboyrelay

Usage

Run the pipboy relay at the command line:

$ pipboyrelay
Discovered:  { IsBusy: false,
  MachineType: 'PS4',
  info: { address: '192.168.1.71', family: 'IPv4', port: 28000, size: 50 } }

It will autodiscover any games running with an active server on your local network and create its own endpoints that the Android/iOS app will recognize.

Open up the mobile app, navigate to the connection settings screen and connect to the other address listed than you saw discovered above. You should start seeing data fly by.

UDP and TCP Relay created for:  { address: '192.168.1.71', family: 'IPv4', port: 28000, size: 50 }
listening
[TCP Relay] 192.168.1.71:27000 -> ::ffff:192.168.1.67:55232
00000000: 2300 0000 017b 226c 616e 6722 3a22 656e  #....{"lang":"en
00000010: 222c 2276 6572 7369 6f6e 223a 2231 2e31  ","version":"1.1
00000020: 2e32 312e 3022 7d0a                      .21.0"}.

[TCP Relay] 192.168.1.71:27000 -> ::ffff:192.168.1.67:55232
00000000: 754e 0600 0306 5290 0f00 2447 656e 6572  uN....R...$Gener
00000010: 616c 0003 6290 0f00 1e00 0000 0661 900f  al..b........a..
00000020: 004c 6f63 6174 696f 6e73 2044 6973 636f  .Locations.Disco
...
[TCP Relay] 192.168.1.71:27000 -> ::ffff:192.168.1.67:55232
00000000: 7565 002d 910f 0074 6578 7400 2f91 0f00  ue.-...text./...
00000010: 7368 6f77 4966 5a65 726f 0000 0003 3291  showIfZero....2.
00000020: 0f00 0000 0000 0631 910f 0046 6974 7320  .......1...Fits.
...

Interesting bit above - look at byte 0x18 (0x1e), occurring right before "Locations Discovered". That's the current number of locations discovered with my current character. It's a binary format but it's in plaintext. Should be able to decode this and hopefully send instructions to the running server.