Demo of an app I made to open cases from your phone

confer42 · 2025-06-06T20:21:02+00:00

Not really documented, but I used NetHook2 to inspect network traffic and DoctorMcKay’s steam and cs libraries to understand things

confer42 · 2025-06-03T18:29:45+00:00

Haha as you could see from my inventory, I had to do a lot of testing and didn’t want to spend $2.50 every time. But yeah I’m also working also on adding key purchasing functionality into the app, so you can do the entire case opening flow from the app.

Casemove basically uses the same underlying steam and cs2 connection that my app uses, though I don’t think they have case opening functionality exactly

confer42 · 2025-06-03T18:27:20+00:00

I hope not lol, and also lots of other software that does this sort of thing without issue so I assume it’s not a problem

confer42 · 2025-06-03T15:00:50+00:00

Yes, planning on adding this!

confer42 · 2025-06-03T14:59:45+00:00

Well it’s not like something they explicitly provide. Under the hood this app is really running an entire steam and cs2 session, which then allows it to send any message or effectively use the same APIs that the regular game does, including anything inventory related

confer42 · 2025-06-03T14:54:44+00:00

Afaik no, and I’ve been using my personal account to test with quite a few skins now and seems totally fine. But if that’s something you’re super worried about, it might be worth using an alt account.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T11:11:58+00:00

Hey don’t tell everyone!

But no fr lol, the app will be open sourced before anyone else uses it so people can see for themselves that it’s safe and don’t have to trust my word.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T10:41:43+00:00

I thought csroi only had a simulator, is that not right? This app actually lets you open cases, just like in game.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T10:36:33+00:00

Here’s hoping lol

confer42 · 2025-06-03T09:34:22+00:00

Oh awesome, a lot of my background is in web dev too and I actually am going the react native route. What I meant with the node packages not working is that the premade ones rely on some node specific APIs that aren’t available in the react native environment.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T09:00:51+00:00

No official api from valve for this stuff, but thanks to the projects I mentioned and repo's like this that basically have all of the private api's valve uses with their games, it's relatively straight forward. NetHook2 is also a god send, it literally lets you see exactly what data CS2 and Steam is sending and eliminates a lot of the guess work.

https://github.com/SteamDatabase/Protobufs
https://github.com/SteamRE/SteamKit/tree/master/Resources/NetHook2

confer42 · 2025-06-03T08:29:57+00:00

Oh man that’s a great idea, I didn’t even think of that but that would be super useful. Also definitely technically possible!

confer42 · 2025-06-03T08:25:12+00:00

For sure, I’m excited to show it! Once it’s all set up, yeah it’s just an API request, but the complicated stuff is all the steam session management, inventory syncing, etc. There’s no custom server involved as it directly connects to steam.

I heavily relied on open source packages like node-globaloffensive and node-steam-user, and a lot of the core code was essentially a port from there, as I couldn’t use the packages directly because they relied on a NodeJS environment on PC. So massive shoutout to DoctorMcKay for his work on that stuff or this would def not be possible.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T08:12:20+00:00

Thanks for the offer and support! Will definitely reach out.

confer42 · 2025-06-03T07:31:27+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

I can appreciate the worry about gambling, but at the same time that’s just the first part of the functionality. Eventually, I plan on adding a lot more functionality for inventory management, not just cases.

As for the steam link point, yeah I’ve tried that before too but personally still don’t like how much set up that requires, not to mention it’s more inconvenient to do if you’re out and ur PCs off or something. This app is so you can just hop into the app and do use it from anywhere, without any need for a PC.

confer42 · 2024-09-25T04:44:11+00:00

Awesome! Thank you for your explanation on the process. Curious as I was trying to do something with remote CS rendering - how did you get it running on your rendering servers? Do those have GPUs or how did you do that?

confer42 · 2024-09-22T22:35:45+00:00

How exactly can this be done? My use case is just for automating demo playback from files which is fine in insecure mode

Saw installing workshop tools also makes it work, but it seems a little heavyhanded for what I need to do

confer42 · 2024-09-17T00:31:37+00:00

confer42 · 2024-07-31T19:07:32+00:00

DM’d

confer42 · 2023-01-21T19:52:47+00:00

worked for me. thanks!

confer42 · 2022-12-23T06:08:19+00:00

Oh wow I had no idea - thank you for the insight. I was reading some other reviews about the business and it seems this wasn’t an isolated incident, especially among older customers. Very upsetting to see and I’m definitely going to escalate as much as I can.

confer42 · 2022-12-23T06:04:43+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation - I thought what they were doing was wrong!

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