thingino works pretty well (why? it's linux!)
I should know, I help make it!
Combine thingino, friagte and go2rtc, with home assistant, and you can have a sweet setup with recording, and low latency playback. The family loves it.
Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
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Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#42What does the firmware do, practically? Can I use the firmware on my Wyze cameras as a drop-in replacement? Will the cameras still talk to the Wyze app? I guess my question is: from a practical viewpoint, what do I get with this firmware (other than that it is open and all that, which I totally appreciate).
Thingino is a replacement of the stock firmware. But you obviously lose the ability to use vendor's cloud. Because if you still want to use the subscription service, why would you need to replace the stock firmware?
A typical camera has a certain functionality: remote monitoring, alerting on events, etc.
How would I, a random user, go about getting this functionality with Thingino?
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#43This isn't related to Thingino specifically, but I just started trying to find an outdoor camera to watch nightlife, and I have to say, it's been a painful experience. Literally all I want is to get a notification on my phone when an animal moves around in my large yard, and watch a recording of it on my phone soon after. And that, apparently, is very difficult. The first problem I ran into what "what camera do I buy…
> The funny thing is, I've been using ChatGPT throughout this entire process and it failed to inform me of al this at the beginning, so clearly there's more tailored guides needed for people to pick the right thing. So, you want someone to write a guide, but you admit you're not gonna read it or click on any affiliate links, because you'll just get that info from ChatGPT? I think this is a problem we're gonna have wi…
The domination of ads on the internet, as I remember it, came about around the time Google exploded in popularity. At the time there were still free services paid for by ad-banners, but it was to pay for services, not content.
Whether it's mindless "recipe blogs", the YouTube spam of reviewers being paid to lie about products, or the instagram Influencers (the fact that people call them that un-ironically is insane), I welcome the death of content. The "normal" web will still be here when it all goes away.
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thingino is a replacement of the stock firmware. But you obviously lose the ability to use vendor's cloud. Because if you still want to use the subscription service, why would you need to replace the stock firmware?
A typical camera has a certain functionality: remote monitoring, alerting on events, etc. How would I, a random user, go about getting this functionality with Thingino?
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#45Cool! I hope this supports my Yi cameras someday. They added advertising to their app so now every time I gotta check my cams I first need to dismiss ads. That's a fabulous way to piss off customers.
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#46These projects are very cool, especially if you're stuck with a crappy "app only" camera. But lack of even rudimentary AI motion detection and alerting is a bit of a deal breaker.
My guess is that these processors are so underpowered that they're incapable of doing anywhere close to the true AI. So, what'd you'd do, is a regular motion detection (this thing does support that, right?), and then apply the AI at the processing layer on the NAS.
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!
Motion detection works fine of course.
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#47These projects are very cool, especially if you're stuck with a crappy "app only" camera. But lack of even rudimentary AI motion detection and alerting is a bit of a deal breaker.
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.
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#48This isn't related to Thingino specifically, but I just started trying to find an outdoor camera to watch nightlife, and I have to say, it's been a painful experience. Literally all I want is to get a notification on my phone when an animal moves around in my large yard, and watch a recording of it on my phone soon after. And that, apparently, is very difficult. The first problem I ran into what "what camera do I buy…
did you try frigate for the motion detection ?
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#49Anyone has recommendations for open source self host video recorder and processor?
I used Marius’ Portainer guides for both Frigate[1] and iSpy Agent DVR (not OSS)[2].
I haven’t been able to get Frigate to see the garden eufy cam yet but iSpy worked right away with the same credentials.
I’ll choose my next cameras based on the Thingino supported list. Thank you to everyone working on this project!
[1] https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-frigate-on-your-syn...
[2] https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-ispy-on-your-synolo...
Re: Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras
#50This looks really nice, but I can’t see HomeKit support listed. I had a few ESP32 cameras that mostly worked, so it can be done…
Come to our Discord for support, we have people using Thingino with HomeKit.
Thanks for the invite, but I find Discord appalling to use. Do you have a normal web forum I can search?