Comment on Cams, anyone?

Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!

  A link for anyone interested: thingino.com

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  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see it supports many cameras, but you need to pull them apart and use a serial hookup to flash the firmware… but for the wyze cams and a few others you can flash them directly with an SD card.

    I liked how cheap the wyze cams were but desperately wanted to get them offline. This was my silver bullet.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy sht. I know what im doing this weekend.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh thank god. This solves my problem of no good integrated can hardware on the market that isn’t cloudified or a huge security hole.

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  • Auli@twit.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @empireOfLove2 @Windex007 Just keep them off the network. There is no reason for a security camera to have LAN access.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How you gonna get the video feed off an IP cam without connecting it to your network?

      You’re not seriously suggesting using old analog cameras in 2025, are you?

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      • 123@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe they mean main network? Lots of people seem to have a separate vlan with strict rules on what they can cobtact for IoT devices nowadays due to how poorly secured they are.

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• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can confirm. Been using Wyze cameras for several years.

  I’m not using this particular firmware but I bought them specifically because I could flash them.

  Despite the firmware giving control of outbound traffic, I suggest blocking them at the network level.

  Mine run on an sd card and if someone removes the sd card and reboots it or the card gets corrupted, it would fall back to factory settings.

  I have quite a few of these and they are using very, very cheap sd cards and while none have failed, they most certainly will eventually.

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• swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  New to me & bookmarked. I am sure I have some crap lying around that this would work with.

  Thank you!

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• jabeez@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks, never heard of it, do have an old Wyze cam or two lying around too.

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• abominable_panda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Came here to suggest this. Glad its getting the exposure it deserves

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