Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by diggan on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:16AM
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Thanks, I saw said article as I'm commenting in it's thread :) But I wanted to avoid the hacking and just buy something that I don't have to force into doing what I want but rather come in a clean slate.
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Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by epicide on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:37AM
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Not trying to sound (too) snarky, but the fact that there is an article on hacking a camera to do that kinda tells you that a boxed solution to do mostly the same things doesn't exist :)
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by diggan on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:11AM
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No worries, my initial comment might have been on the wrong post ("hey, I see you hack cameras but if I don't have time for that, where can I buy one with acceptable out-of-the-box behaviour?") but I felt the subject was a bit related at least, and I don't know any of them so I asked :)
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by TheForumTroll on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:30AM
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Lots exist, just not cheap :)
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by epicide on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @03:23PM
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Yep, I should've been more explicit, but I was counting "be cheap" as part of "mostly the same things".
Recently bought a Nest camera since it seemed like a DIY approach was going to be harder than I thought. Might end up returning it if I can get this to work how I want.
Re:Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:28PM
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I have a couple of Xiaomi Yi cams, which out-of-the box stream to a mobile app, don't require a subscription, and will save video locally to an SD card. They are cheap and cheerful (but you would want to keep them behind a firewall). That said, this hack clearly offers a lot more functionality (I think I will replace my Yi cams with these and relegate them to recording raccoons in my backyard).