How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera
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The significant other has 4 different apps for cams. They each have silly issues, sd cards are to small and they all charge wild fees for cloud storage that they didn't disclose before purchase.
I can buy new ones but with the cheaper ones it is more likely a repetition of the mistake made 4 times already.
The software can be 6 times as expensive as the cams and still be entirely worth it.
What I also want is someone in a low wage country watching a wall full of cams cycling from one cam to the next. That service western security companies charge thousands per month for. Robbery right there!
Edit: At least on amazon.in I could not find any.
Don't ZigBee and zwave smart plugs work locally only?
But with both zigbee/thread the problem is shifted towards the gateway instead so you'll have to do it yourself / pick one tu trust there. But here I think/hope Thread is going to have better interoperability.
And if you don’t want to deal with the hub potentially being your next issue, you can always throw home assistant on a computer / raspberry pi / whatever and control them locally. If you want remote access when you’re off your network, it’s up to you to figure out how to securely get the bits from your phone to your home assistant server.
And that's not really terribly hard. I run a VPN server at home, and connect from my phone through that.
Dunno if they ship to India, but I'm sure you can find similar products on AliExpress if you search for the same keywords
I wish more manufacturers provided this sort of thing!
they also have bulbs too. Got both setup with Home assistant, seems to work fine.
The fact is that the Hue bridge supports connecting to a cloud for control from anywhere, so they'll advertise that since it's what many people are after. But it works perfectly fine offline, and you can manage it via Home Assistant, for example.
These come pre-flashed with Tasmota, which can rudimentarily be controlled via an HTTP API, and fully via MQTT.
Here's a list of all Plugs and Sockets which can be flashed with this firmware: https://templates.blakadder.com/plug.html
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/344691
Now I can control the lights from my bed even when the LAN is down.
Here are my rough notes on the project https://github.com/Yossi/Bluetooth_lightswitch
Look at Shelly devices, they are exactly what you are looking for (in no way affiliated)
Whatever you do, don't buy TP-Link. Those had local control but they removed it due to "security concerns" in an automatic update. And of course promoting their data mining cloud had nothing to do with it.
I was gifted a new rando chinese IP cam that uses the mobile app. It's not googlable. I've been using as a outside security camera. The camera saves to an SD card continuously, and has a paid option to use the cloud which I did not take. It has a mobile app, KP WIFICAM, which lets me view the feed in real-time even over the Internet.
I can even view or download the past few days of recordings on the SD card from a menu. However, they are separated into chunks of 10 minutes, so I would have to manually download nearly 100 files files (tap, Download, wait to finish, move to next clip) to get a single day of recordings.
How could I automate/simplify the downloading of these clips from the SD cards to my laptop? How is the mobile app listing the recordings and fetching them?
I ran a tool called Agent-DVR and it found the camera feed using a format called ONVIF. So I think the mobile app uses this protocol https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29159422/get-data-from-l... , is there a tool like this available for Linux I could use without spending a couple of days installing a developer environment and writing my own code?
Any thoughts?
I know we could use a setup with a raspberry, but I would like the usual nice functions of such a problem like: motor and a performant movement détection alerts. All of that without having to develop all of that myself. I would easy buy the product 2 or 3 times the price we pay for current consumer products.
I use a ReoLink camera controlled with Synology Surveillance Station ran on a local NAS setup. It allows me to pan the camera and it also has movement detection.
There’s many more advanced use cases you can use with local IP cameras. Just yesterday I purchased one of Synology’s “deep learning” NVRs which allows person detection, face recognition, license plate recognition and more on top of all the standard features (zooming, panning, tilting) with my local Domar cameras.
Pretty sure all the Apple Homekit stuff lets you do this
All of my cameras are cheap Aliexpress ones that I have never let connect to the internet (nor installed any janky manufacturer apps). They’re on a VLAN where the only other device is a machine running Blue Iris to do all the camera stuff. It supports PTZ, very configurable motion detection, alerting (including just triggering external apps so you can wire up whatever you want to it), etc.
Total investment here is like $30/camera for the cheap PoE IP cameras and $80 for Blue Iris.
I've thought of replacing cloud cameras, but I'd still want:
- recording (not just live view)
- alerts
- offsite storage
What's the best way to set this up these days? Zoneminder running at home? With syncthing handling off-site storage to a VPS?
The kids are using Frigate these days.
Or if you aren't against proprietary software, Blue Iris on Windows is a popular option.
I did a clearout recently and gave away 5 Xiaomi Xiaofang cameras that I'd flashed with samhacks firmware years ago, but never gotten around to using.
If I'd known about Frigate, I might have kept them. But I guess there are better cameras available now?
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...
Of the lower cost and reasonably well-known names, the only brand that doesn't seem to be doing that is Reolink.
Do you really want to rely on some firmware hack of a shitty D-Link camera to be the only thing standing between a robber and your stuff? You can buy a proper IP cam from Amcrest, Dahua or TP-Link for a few hundred bucks, wire it into PoE and have at least a fighting chance of identifying who stole your stuff. Anything less than a high quality camera placed in exactly the right place, and all you will accomplish is snapping a really blurry picture of your things being stolen, speaking from experience.
I think he's right - low quality CCTV will just tell you what you already knew - your stuff was stolen by a man of average build wearing clothes.
The main difference I've noticed with the Nests vs older shittier cameras is their lenses have wider fields of view. So while the sensors have more pixels they're just picking up more background details vs more subject details. It lets them to have less precise positioning/aiming to cover a target area but they do t give you necessarily more detail on any individual part of the frame.
I have a DCS-5030L that I am trying to hack. I already dumped the spi EPROM firmware and disassembled uboot using Ghidra to patch the secure boot.
After that I block the camera's IP address outbound network access, which should stop them dialing home.
I don't know what Netcam Studio is nor what it does and I'm not interested in finding out since I'm not going to use it, but what kind of licensing it has would be the least of my immediate security concerns.
You're right when calling for evidence, and I have none, but what if the software one day turns malicious and it's being caught only when the damage is done? Sorry, but the risks are too high.
I don't explicitly block netcam studio as, it runs on a windows host that I want to connect to the Internet for patches, it's a commercial product I paid a license for, so there's some incentives for the developer to maintain it, it has no innate cloud functionality, so less risk of hijack.
My risk profile is such that I'm not expecting directed attacks at me, I'm more likely to be caught up in a wider attack on a service.
Is there a list of cameras that can be converted like this?
Create a network just for the camera(s) - I.e. different wifi router.
Find out the server IP that the camera sends it’s video to.
Connect a pc/rpi to this camera’s wifi router on WAN port.
Assign all camera’s server IP you found above to this pc/rpi.
You should get all the traffic from cameras to their server. Up to you now what you are going to do.
What are you using for this transfer?
I've been struggling to find a way to do this. Seems like everything I find has removed any FTP/SFTP support and wants to send pics over LTE to an email address.
My goal is a simple weather cam that will upload an image every 1 minute. Simple as that. Old 2000s webcam style. I ran into an unsolved problem with my rPi3 and a Logitech cam and mostly gave up out of frustration.
How?