Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks is a particularly good example, the top of the README is a list of camera models and pictures of the camera. (It also mentions "Any other Device with Ingenic T10/T20" at the end of the list, so it might overlap with OpenIPC somewhat?)

this is the only open source solution that I know of, if you know of any others let me know, https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

Not OP, but I configured a mosquitto server. Then a simple shell script service with 'mosquitto_sub' and ffmpeg to fetch the rtsp stream on motion events [0]. Somewhat crude, but it was only for a temporary setup. Another option seems to be Home Assistant [1] [0] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks/blob/mas... [1] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks/blob/mas...

For those who are anti-cloud or want a 2-tier system for any good reasons, Been using this with several wyzecam V2 cameras for 2 years with no issues other than the cameras not being low light sensitive like the V3, otherwise the setup is pretty solid and fast. https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

This might interest you. https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

I think the only option for that is flashing custom firmware, which i am not sure can be done on the most recent hardware revisions. https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

Is there any way to hack the firmware on a Wyze cam so it can be used as a camera accessible through local intranet? Hmm, this looks promising https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

This may have changed, but in the past, I believe they were essentially just rebranded Xiaomi cameras (possibly from other suppliers) with different firmware. I originally thought the Chinese products were clones of Wyze, but it appears Wyze is actually just using existing low-cost hardware from overseas. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong though. FYI - for some camera models (Xiaomi or Wyze), you can flash them with this custom firmware[1], allowing for a lot more customization. [1] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

This repo seems unmaintained. This project is more active: https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

...or, flash them with an alternative firmware. https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

There is a good reason many of us have been flashing it with dafang hacks from https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

Yup. There’s even a community helping. Xiaomi DaFang Hacks / XiaoFang 1S / Wyzecam V2 / Wyzecam Pan / Other T20 Devices https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

I guess one purpose of a mobile camera you can implement like that could be perimeter pen testing / red teaming. What did the author use their camera for? Does the Raspberry Pi Camera have an IR? How is the quality? Why didn't the author bother to hide the Pi and the camera better in the case? The pricing is dishonest. It first says "$8 Raspberry Pi that supports the camera module." and then later on it mentions Raspberry Pi 3. AFAIK that does not cost $8, and furthermore its missing on the other necessary components such as a microSD card. I'm using Xiaomi Dafang Hacks [1] right now, as I found that a cheap solution. Approx 25 EUR for the Dafang camera. Its a MIPS machine. [1] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

I have two Pi's on remote locations. One is abused with power cuts, the other one not. The one with the power cuts is still alive, the other one had a corrupted microSD card which I just could not repair, and the system would hang (if I reinstalled it was OK again). Both Pi's have /var/log and a bunch of other locations mounted with tmpfs (so, in memory instead of on microSD) with swap off. After the advice from a fellow HN reader [1] I bought a bunch of aMLC microSD cards from DigiKey. No S&H costs and it literally arrived 1,5 days later (from Springfield to The Netherlands) though I had to pay import tax. Needless to say, they've been rock stable. I'm using one in a Pi and one in a Dafang camera [2]. I still gotta replace the microSD cards in the remote Pi's though but I'll do it once they break (again). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com