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Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth. (medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Emperor to c/smarthomes

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The Xiaomi Dafang IP camera is a indoor motorized WiFi camera capable of 1080P resolution and decent night-vision, its price is cheap but in exchange you are tied to the Xiaomi’s Mi Home App & Cloud.

The Xiaomi Dafang IP camera is the successor of the $15 Xiaomi Xiaofang Camera and continues the line of Xiaomi’s range of quality inexpensive IP cameras. The new model comes with a set of new features: better image quality, MicroSD Port, a rotating gimbal, on the back a USB port which can ¹be used to charge other devices, and a variety of alarm sensors and more. In this post, we take a closer look at camera CFW alternative open source firmware install.

I've got one but the house move seems to have made it shy (keeps turning to the wall), so it looks like nothing will be lost by trying this.

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[–] Cyber 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used Dafang Hacks on 3 of the small cube cams and it works well.

Not actually looked at the motorised ones...