node-siri

node-siri is a light-weight Siri Proxy written in Node.JS that does not require you to jailbreak your device.

Installation

NPM (Easy)

npm install siri

Git (Advanced)

git clone https://github.com/zhangyuanwei/node-siri.git
npm update

Getting Started

The installation script requires TCP/443 and optionally TCP/80 (for the setup, this port can be changed) to be open and should run under a privileged account which can open those ports.

Normal operation requires port TCP/443 to be open and optionally UDP/53 (if using dnsproxy) to be open, and should run under a privileged account which can open those ports.

Configuration

Configuration can come either from the command line or your config.json file.

1. Copy config.json.sample to config.json.
2. Use a text editor to edit your defaults.

While it is recommended to keep your configuration in the file, you may wish you temporarily change some settings while testing. To do so, add the argument(s) on the command line.

sudo node examples/proxy.js --debug 1 --locale zh

DNS

You need a way to hijack DNS requests for guzzoni.apple.com and send them to your server running node-siri. You only need to perform one of the following DNS procedures.

Using dnsproxy (Easy)

node-siri includes a dns proxy server to simplify things.

1. Set dnsproxy to true (or 1) in config.json.
2. Configure your iDevice to use the node-siri server's IP address for the first DNS Server.

Custom DNS Server (Advanced)

If you already have a DNS server on your network, simply create a zone file for guzzoni.apple.com to point to your node-siri server.

See the contrib/ directory for a sample zone file.

Setup

1. Run sudo node install.js
2. Browse to http://guzzoni.apple.com from your iDevice (in Safari!)
3. Install the certificate from the link provided on the webpage.
4. Reload the webpage.
5. If everything is green, end the install.js process.
6. Run sudo node examples/en-US/hello.js
7. Activate Siri and say "Hello".

Siri should respond with "Siri Proxy says 'Hello!'"

Example

var siri = require("siri");
 
siri.createServer(function(cmd, dev) {
    if (/Hello/.test(cmd)) {
        dev.end("Siri Proxy says 'Hello!'");
    } else {
        dev.proxy();
    }
}).start();

API

A Siri conversation consists of one or more requests from the client and n or more responses from the Siri server.

A Siri Proxy conversation may call .say() or .ask() zero or more times during the transaction, however, it must finish with an .end().

SiriDevice.say(text[, speakable]):

Returns information to Siri. This can be called multiple times during the conversation.

SiriDevice.ask(text[, speakable], callback):

Returns information to Siri and waits for an answer. This can be called multiple times during the conversation.

The answer is sent to the callback function of your choosing.

callback(answer)

Answers the callback function.

SiriDevice.end([text[, speakable]]):

This dialog ends, and optionally returns any information. This MUST be called to finalize the transaction.

SiriDevice.proxy():

The conversation is handed over to the Siri server for processing.

Troubleshooting

• Ensure your iDevice resolves guzzoni.apple.com as your node-siri server.
• DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT : Ensure your node-siri server is resolving guzzoni.apple.com to the internet. It should not be pointing to itself!
• EACCES : Start node in privledged mode, e.g. (sudo node)

Debugging

Logging of extraneous output has been moved to the debug module. To have node-siri output non-critical messages, run your app with the DEBUG environment variable set like so:

$ DEBUG=siri:* node app.js

node-siri exposes three log-levels:

siri:debug
siri:warn
siri:error

If you only want to get errors and warnings reported, start your node server like so:

$ sudo DEBUG=siri:warn,siri:error node app.js

Reporting Issues

Submit an issue on github with a pastebin (or equivilant) of the output of the following commands:

You should be running these commands from the main node-siri directory, where siri.js is located.

pwd
ls -la
cat config.json
cat examples/proxy.js
openssl x509 -in keys/server-cert.pem -noout -text
nslookup guzzoni.apple.com
node -v
sudo DEBUG=siri:* node examples/proxy.js --dumpdata true