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Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by freehunter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:05AM (#16753913)
I have a Wyze cam that I installed OpenIPC on. Very simple process if you’ve ever flashed a firmware before. OpenIPC lets you turn off the cloud stuff and I have mine pushing video over my local network to MotionEye on a Raspberry Pi. The Wyze has IR night vision but the IR can’t see through windows at night so be aware of that.

It was like $25 on Amazon, pretty good deal I think.

Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by lozaning on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:15AM (#16753977)
I've got the same thing going at home, tough to beat ~7 of these cameras flashed with OpenIPC for the cost of a single drop cam.

Got the rtsp stream connected up to smartthings and blue iris and have had zero trouble with them.

They're only $20 if you order from wyze.com

Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by StavrosK on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:39AM (#16754117)
Does anyone know of a good Android viewer for RTSP? I'm probably going to proxy it with an HTTP webserver over TLS (if I can do that with RTSP? EDIT: Apparently I can't, I'll have to find a way to add authentication) to add basic auth, so the viewer will need to support that.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by freehunter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:42AM (#16754146)
I use TinyCam on an Amazon Fire tablet to view my RTSP stream but only locally. Over the Internet I view the stream from MotionEye on my RPi using their authentication. In that case I can view it in the browser, no app needed.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by StavrosK on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:50AM (#16754188)
Thank you, I didn't know of those apps, I'll try them now.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by dagrha on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:36AM (#16755709)
VLC is great-- it's what I use for viewing RTSP on my LAN.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by notyourday on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:37AM (#16755729)
VLC does the job but what you really want to do is run ffmpeg against it and generate HLS
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by kawsper on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:05AM (#16754283)
They look the same as the camera being sold from https://openip.cam/ , but the price there is even cheaper: $12.99.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by Y_Y on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:08AM (#16754306)
They're selling SD cards, not cameras
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by kawsper on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:34AM (#16755684)
Ah gotcha, I read too fast.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by ericfrederich on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:45AM (#16754597)
Do you lose the push notifications when you use the custom firmware?
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by freehunter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:05PM (#16756041)
Yes you lose complete access to the Wyze app. There is another recommended app you can use to replace it called Mi Home but the point of this for me was to replace any cloud stuff.

That being said if you have a video server like MotionEye or maybe Smarthome has it (that was mentioned before), you can likely do some alerting based off that. I know MotionEye has email alerts and might have some other alerting that I don't use.

Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by thinkling on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:06PM (#16757853)
FWIW, I think you meant wyzecam.com. (Wyze.com redirects to Wyzestore.com which is down.)

EDIT: currently 2-3 weeks backordered on wyzecam.com and out of stock on Amazon.

Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by Pearljamfan on Sunday April 15, 2018 @04:17PM (#16844717)
What about wyze cam version 2? Will this work?
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by diggan on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:14AM (#16753968)
Looks great and I was started to look into it, but seems it's just within US (and even with that, probably only provide the power adapter for US plugs). I should have been more clear and indicated I live in the magical world of Europe (Spain specifically).
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by elheffe80 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:24AM (#16754026)
Thank you! I had no idea OpenIPC was out there! Going to be upgrading all my Wyze cameras tonight! This is amazing and EXACTLY what I wanted from Wyze!!!!
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by ausjke on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:23AM (#16754934)
First time heard about openipc, checked its github, it is still just binary format though, thought 'open' means some source code...
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by diggan on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:12AM (#16755480)
Yeah, did the same. First reaction was regarding not finding any list anywhere of supported models, which is strange in itself. But the second point that they are still using a binary blob which no one knows what it does, doesn't feel very safe if you're worried about companies spying on you.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by StavrosK on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:10PM (#16798734)
Is it? I see the whole file system layout on Github, or do you mean the firmware blob?
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by StavrosK on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:33AM (#16754074)
Can OpenIPC run on this Xiaomi camera? I just ordered it. Also, I'm assuming it's better than the software in this post, correct?
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by freehunter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:40AM (#16754127)
I’m pretty certain the Xiaomi and Wyze are the same camera, just in different packaging. Wyze is pretty honest that they don’t manufacture their own cameras. That being said, I think the software in the article is the same or very similar to OpenIPC. The web interface is identical. You’d probably get the same results with either camera.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth by StavrosK on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:47AM (#16754173)
Ah, fantastic, thank you.