I spent... 6 months trying to write a remote control for the google chrome dongle (not using Google's API). It was pretty clear that the official SDK had access

I spent... 6 months trying to write a remote control for the google chrome dongle (not using Google's API). It was pretty clear that the official SDK had access to an entirely different API, and because it was all encrypted, I would never, ever, see any of it. The bits and pieces of an API I did piece together (from older protocols), were stunningly unreliable. I am sure they were left in only to frustrate people trying to do exactly what I was.