How I changed my D-Link camera from cloud camera to a locally managed IP camera

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  • defogger

    D-Link DCS-8000LH usage info and defogging tools

  • Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

  • For those who are anti-cloud or want a 2-tier system for any good reasons, Been using this with several wyzecam V2 cameras for 2 years with no issues other than the cameras not being low light sensitive like the V3, otherwise the setup is pretty solid and fast.

    https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks

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  • wz_mini_hacks

    wz camera mods... make your camera better.

  • I have been using wz_mini_hacks [1] on my Wyze V3 and have been pretty happy with it. Among other things, it has a “self-hosted” mode which patches the binaries running on the camera to no longer phone home to Wyze servers. I’ve been using it on my local network over RTSP with no issues.

    [1] https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks

  • BinaryEye

    Yet another barcode scanner for Android

  • Bluetooth_lightswitch

    Files and documentation related to custom bluetooth control of an individual light switch

  • For the light switch in my room I slapped together a relay and a raspberry pi pico and a Bluetooth board (I think I saw recently that the pico w now has working Bluetooth as well?)

    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

    Take a look at TP-Link HS100 and HS110. You can control them with this script https://github.com/softScheck/tplink-smartplug

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