[Cerowrt-devel] openwrt or "open" security cams?

Joel Wirāmu Pauling joel at aenertia.net
Fri Apr 3 19:08:48 EDT 2020


The Xiaomi Dafang Cameras are good value and there is a completely open
tool chain including uboot for them:
Get one with 128G of Ram if you want to do 1080P RTSP streams.

https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks


On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 11:53, David P. Reed <dpreed at deepplum.com> wrote:

> The ESP32-CAM device (which is under $10 quantity 1 from lots of sources,
> just google) is a WiFi enabled camera board with lots of functionaliy built
> in, including a full WiFi (2.4 GHz) and TCP/IP with TLS stack.
> I have been playing with a couple, as have my friends. Various folks have
> 3D printed cases for particular uses, or you can just use any little box
> with a hole drilled for the camera.
>
> It's programmable with the Arduino tools, or with Micropython, or with an
> embedded Javascript framework. You need an FTDI usb device to boot it,
> program it, ...
>
> Folks have used it effectively for security camera applications. The
> camera that is usually sold with it (a very teeny camera indeed, smaller
> than a black bean, which I almost lost when I opened the package with the
> board and camera, the first time).
>
> Easily battery powered. You can find a lot of support from the hacker
> community.
>
> It does a simple (imperfect) face recognition onboard as an option, and
> can do single frames or streams, and has a number of GPIO pins you can use
> to trigger it, if triggering by motion isn't what you want.
>
> On Thursday, April 2, 2020 2:05pm, "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com> said:
>
> > I am considering doing a security camera deployment, but am concerned
> > about the overall security of
> > security cams. Are there any with a reasonably rebuildable set of
> sources? ipv6?
> >
> > Anyone have recent experience with zoneminder, jitsi or big blue button?
> >
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