alt Hacker NewsI came here to post this, too :) What the thingino community managed to do with their firmware for these cameras is nothing short of amazing - if you happen to have a compatible camera, you really, really should give it a whirl!
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rescbr • last Friday at 10:11 PM
Oh, this is great! I do have this exact camera and another one that’s on the list!
I’m more than happy to ditch the scrappy RTSP setup that I have to support these cheap cameras!
inferiorhuman • yesterday at 7:56 AM
I think Thingino is great. But there are definitely still dragons lurking. I reported a bug last year and mostly forgot about it. Got a response a few months ago to check out a fix related to unexpected memory access.
I generally try not to be a huge Rust cheerleader but seriously. Yikes.
I'd love to but... how? One alternative seems to be a programmer chip that must be puchased and then modified to not fry the camera with 5V. Another is maybe stripping a USB cable and soldering it to the wifi pads on the camera chip?
Neither of these seem like good ideas for someone like me, who is relatively hardware naïve and has small children running around making it hard to concetrate for more than 30 minutes at a time.
The question is genuine. I want to do this but don't actually know by which method.