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Re: Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?

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I don't know if it's supported anymore but some Wyze cameras have an official but unsupported alternative firmware you can flash that exposes them as a local network video stream. They work great and anything on your network can ingest the video. I don't think they made this firmware for their fancier cameras that have motorized pan/tilt etc though.

How do we trust the firmware from a company that had backdoors in their product open to the world? The first time there was a lot of 'well any multi-team product devs could screw up..'

but the second time it was exposed they knew of the open exploit for quite some time and chose not to patch it right?

Re: Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?

#202
I own two Reolink cameras. These are very cheap, like 50 EUR or so, and come with wireless and ethernet connectivity. They speak RTSP and have a web UI. You can set them up entirely locally through that web UI.

I cannot attest whether they phone home or not as I run them on an isolated network, but they work fairly well and the web UI exposes all the features the camera has.

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