Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

• wiki

  5 220 9.7

  The new OpenIPC wiki (by OpenIPC)

  

For those curious if their devices are supported. The list is here:

https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/guide-support...

• majestic

  1 30 2.6 C

  Majestic Community edition integration kit

  

Yup, also the userspace application that does the actual streaming is closed-source as well: https://github.com/OpenIPC/majestic

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• firmware

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  Alternative IP Camera firmware from an open community (by OpenIPC)

  

> Majestic code while is not open, provides unprecedented performance and capabilities for a wide range of hardware. The author of Majestic streamer is looking into possibilities to open-source the codebase after he secures enough funds to support further open development. You can help to make it happen sooner.

Source: https://openipc.org/

• moonfire-nvr

  31 1,114 8.6 Rust

  Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder

> I wonder how hard it would be to run your own streamer pipeline or whatnot on these things?

Agree with the_biot: The actual streaming component is not too hard. If this were the biggest problem, I'd be thrilled to contribute to an open source streaming server to complement my open source NVR. [1] The driver situation is indeed a bit harder—these things don't just have mainline Linux support with v4l2 for the video input and encoder. Or open source drivers of any kind to crib from AFAIK.

The biggest problem IMHO is that there just aren't any good cameras to buy, even completely ignoring the software aspect. I want a camera that:

1. doesn't support genocide. Nothing that involves Dahua, Hikvision, or Huawei. See IPVM articles on the subject. And a lot of available cameras are relabeled Dahua/Hikvision stuff and/or use Huawei components.

2. is legal for sale / authorized for use in the US. (See the Secure Equipment Act of 2021.)

3. has good night mode performance: IR/day switch, a sensor that is at least 1/1.8", reasonable resolution (somewhere from HD to 4k).

4. has an "eyeball" or "turret" form factor rather than "bullet". The latter seems to really attract spiders, so you end up with a really nice video of a web...

5. supports PoE.

6. is weatherized (IP66 or so).

7. is reasonably priced.

If you ignore #1 and #2, there's some nice hardware out there, but I'm not willing to do that. If you ignore #3, there are a few options (GeoVision, maybe Reolink, maybe Hanwha.) If you ignore #4 and #7, there might be a couple (Axis, maybe Hanwha.) Nothing that ticks all the boxes.

Hard to get excited about investing a lot in the software when the hardware isn't there.

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

• sandbox-fpv

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  Sandbox for FPV experiments

  

Something tells me being closed source while naming it OpenIPC and pretending to be under MIT license mighty be a bigger factor.

Being russian and clearly trying to steer project towards drone use https://github.com/OpenIPC/sandbox-fpv doesnt help either, we all know what russian drones are used for right now.

• liemoth

  2 23 2.8 C

  Discontinued Development Kit For Ambarella Devices

Related: I was hacking Ambarella action cameras a while back: https://github.com/petabyt/liemoth

Eventually I stopped not because of how low quality action cameras were, there were hundreds of different vendors publishing rebranded Chinese cheap cams. And not to mention how crap the firmware is. The whole thing gets hot and the battery only lasts a few minutes.

• tokay-lite-pcb

  4 47 5.2 Shell

  Tokay AI Camera - ESP32 camera development board

  

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• tokay-lite-sdk

  2 38 6.7 C++

  Tokay Lite: Low Power Edge AI Camera SDK

  

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