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    Comment #44805995

    We have a bunch of ptz outdoor units supported by Thingino. Check out thingino.com for the full list of supported devices!

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    Comment #44804988

    We have basic motion detection and alerting in Thingino. You can send alerts (with stills or video clips) to email, telegram, and several other targets.

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    Comment #44804964

    The Ingenic processors actually have some AI capability, but our firmware is just at the early stages of trying to incorporate it. You're still better off using Frigate or similar!…

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    Comment #44800091

    Thingino has ssh. There are product docs available with the differences between chips, but in a nutshell X series have 128MB and others have 64, except for a newcomer (T23DL) that …

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    Comment #44797794

    The price fluctuates for sure. I bought 9 of these cams and my average price was right at $4... but now I'm seeing them closer to $10 and i can't recommend them over the Cinnado wh…

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    Comment #44796930

    That's my video. I'm indeed one of the developers but my contributions are mostly around adding new devices, creating installers when possible, and doing most of the Youtube conten…

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    Comment #44796908

    in most cases you can tell at a glance. We have run into vendors changing their internals without any way of telling other than opening the cam up. Last year mos vendors started mo…

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    Comment #44796865

    Since Thingino targets retail devices at the top level rather than components, when you install our firmware you get an image made specifically for your device. We can give you eas…

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    Comment #44793008

    These processors range between 32 and 128 megabytes of ram, and a chunk of that is reserved at bootup for the hardware feature blocks. We have a couple devices that support 5ghz, b…

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    Comment #44792978

    2-way audio works via ONVIF with clients as long as they support rtsp backchannel! PTZ works great although none of these devices actually HAVE a zoom apability.

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    Comment #44791017

    Indeed we don't have that 4k yet but we've got a lot of 3k options and 4k coming soon. We're 100 transparent about which devices we support, the full list including photos and spec…

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    Comment #44790808

    wyze doorbell v1 is very cheap refurb on ebay and has an actual 4 megapixel selsor they run at 1080p for no particular reason in their firmware. It's 4 megapixel when you run Thing…

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    Comment #44790234

    You might have better luck with the Thingino project, we target specific devices.

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    Comment #44789259

    POE hasn't really made it to the commodity level you'll find on Amazon. There are some Vanhua models available on Aliexpress.. we also have some users successfully using various PO…

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    Comment #44789214

    Thingino doesn't support cams with ARM processors, we only support the chips made by Ingenic (which are a MIPS superset they call Xburst). We have a number of 4 megapixel (not 4k) …

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    Comment #44788592

    Our firmware is open source, if you think you can provide an upsell on pre-installed cams, go for it!

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    Comment #44788573

    Thingino is a full replacement firmware for Ingenic-based ip cameras. While we have some overlap with OpenIPC it's fair to say that our missions are quite different. I don't consid…

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    Comment #44788528

    The 5MP version is not yet supported! it's identical to the Cinnado D1 5MP, and in addition to the better sensor (and dual band wifi!) they use the next generation Ingenic processo…

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    Comment #44788223

    yep I've got a video on the installation on my channel too!

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    Comment #44788199

    There are people using Thingino to provide security camera services. Just selling the cam pre-flashed probably isn't a great plan as I go out of my way to make it as easy as possib…

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    Comment #44788078

    Generally the cheapest fro Amazom is by Cinnado. I have a video on installing it my channel as well. I've bought this model for as low as $9.50 shipped. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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    Comment #44787933

    The Q5 is on our supported list. I have a user who YOLOd and tried the Cinnado D1 (t23) installer and claimed success. Cinnado and Wasnview (and galayou and a few others!) are owne…

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    Comment #44787878

    Most of the image/video related stuff is done in the hardware, as well as a bunch of other functionality that would be hard to do on a 1 watt cpu. Check out the block diagram of th…

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    Comment #44787759

    The ING in Thingino stands for Ingenic. The Ingenic chips are MIPS, all the other cams are ARM. Focusing on these chips allows us to produce a firmware that actually works (not my …

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    Comment #44787716

    I'm generally the guy making "easy installers" for Thingino cams. The default way to install on a cam is to use a flash programmer, some devices you can use a uart adapter.. I try …