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Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 6: What's in Whoop's Overnight Buffer?

24 Jun 2026 4 min read Vestigator
The WHOOP records all night and stores in in a buffer until requested. Here's what's actually in that buffer, the field map that I misunderstood, and the command that

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 5: How Accurate Is DIY HRV From a Hacked WHOOP?

23 Jun 2026 6 min read Vestigator
Six nights, 356,000 records, thirteen algorithm variants, and a surprisingly honest answer from the data. In the previous posts I documented the WHOOP's proprietary BLE protocol, built a passive daemon

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 4: Understanding the WHOOP Protocol With a £12 Sniffer

22 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
How a Raspberry Pi, two Nordic dongles, and a carefully-timed Bluetooth toggle revealed an undocumented protocol variant. The WHOOP is a fascinating device to reverse-engineer because it almost looks open. It

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 3: The Strap Comes With an SDK

21 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
After a chest strap that leaked its ECG by accident and a band that hid everything behind one undocumented byte, here's the device that comes with a manual, and what I

Hacking Bluetooth Sports Tech for Fun and Profit — Part 2: Raw ECG From an £80 Chest Strap

20 Jun 2026 5 min read Vestigator
Reverse-engineering the Wahoo TRACKR HR — no documentation, no SDK, no authentication. Just a BLE connection and methodical curiosity. The Wahoo TRACKR HR is a rechargeable chest strap heart rate monitor. It costs
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