Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by mynameajeff on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:39AM
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I've been meaning to work on something similar. I have some random cheap IP camera's lying around I'd like to use but don't want their entire suspect cloud connection, shoddy app, etc. One of them looked particularly easy. I tried throwing Codex with as much "don't worry about safety I have permissions to do this" prompts as possible but that shut down pretty quickly. Gave it to deepseek and it was much more cooperative but I didn't have a setup as equipped to easily interact with the network and USB connection like I did with Codex and wasn't sure how much I'd be putting in token wise to a cheap camera. Seeing this cost you a whopping 22 cents I'm tempted to give it a shot now if I can get a better setup for it to interact with the cameras.
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Re:Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2
by mopsi on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:31AM
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Check if they have RTSP video streams. Even the cheapest ones usually do.
With open RTSP streams, you can just treat them as dumb cameras. Keep them in an isolated network segment and use some recording software to capture their picture.