Perhaps it has better recovery mechanisms on the RTSP stream? The RTSP feed of the camera is unstable in the VLC player, BUT keeps working properly in the Synology Surveillance Station. IR / Nightvision is OK, but don’t place the camera behind double glazing, since the IR light reflects back to the camera (-> impaired vision)Īccess and usage is a bit cumbersome in the browser on a mobile device. That password needs to be changed by invoking the passwd command on the cli.Īfter experiencing a corrupt sd-card everything seems to work fine.Ī lot of functionality for a less than 20 euro IP camera. The password for the webgui can be altered through the webgui ( System -> Administration), but that doesn’t change the password for SSH. The default username and password is root/ismart12, which can and should be altered for obvious security reasons. The box, writing, voice etc, but since the instruction on the github pages are pretty straightforward it shouldn’t be a problem.Īfter finding the IP address you can connect to the device by using a browser. The problem with the AliExpress versions is that is all Chinese. I got my test object from Aliexpress, mainly because it was dead-cheap and no shipping. Since there are different brands that ship basically the same hardware with a different firmware, there’s more than enough choice. So now I had to get my hands on the most inexpensive version of the camera. There’s a github project where they fabricated a firmware hack and with custom software the camera can be used for much more. So I started a to search to see if these devices could be altered to benefit my needs, and guess what, they can be altered. I don’t like it when I don’t know where my private data resides. I liked everything about it, except the cloud-storage part.

A nifty little FullHD wireless IP camera that has a decent (iOS/Android) app and cloud connectivity to store the data. A colleague of mine demonstrated a Wyze webcam a couple of weeks before.

Camera firmware hack