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Re: OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

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Post by ZigFisher » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

rasz wrote: post #40

the_biot wrote: post #15

OpenIPC is one of those projects where the core team is Russian, and their communication is Russian, and they use Telegram (or a bridge) for everything. As a non-Russian speaker you're pretty lost trying to contribute, and as a result they attract hardly anyone outside the russosphere. I've tried telling them they're artifically limiting their project, but was predictably ignored. This project has so much potential,…

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.

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Re: OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

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Post by scottlamb » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

askiiart wrote: post #48

scottlamb wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not just supporting products of companies that contribute to China's surveillance state, but I worry that writing open source software contributes to surveillance everywhere as well. This part doesn't bother me. Making open source software available for general purpose needs equalizes things, which I consider an improvement. See e.g. what happens when folks have cameras pointed at the cops slowly murdering George F…

Sorry, but I think you meant George Floyd? I can't find anything about a "George Flynn" being murdered by cops.

Indeed I did.

Re: OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

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Post by heatmiser » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

cfn wrote: post #54

skywal_l wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stupid question from a noob: why not just use some raspberry pi zero, a camera sensor and some ONVIF server? That's what most of those cheap chinese IP camera are: a linux board, a camera sensor and some compression chip.

Because the camera comes in a neat box with resonable weather tightness and it is easier to setup and connect. IP cameras also have the advantage of not needing a power brick.

Your other points withstanding but there are some slick PoE boards available for the RP0s.

Re: OpenIPC: Alternative open firmware for your IP camera

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Post by stevenhuang » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

spease wrote: post #47

bastard_op wrote: post #23

Having looked into this myself prior was mostly asking for disappointment. Getting a random Chinese IP camera to convert to open firmware is great in theory, but the problem is actually buying a camera or 10, or buying more over time. You never really know what hardware ships internally at any given time, ie what SoC a camera really is. They change frequently in random Chinese manufacturers with internal SoC hardware…

I’ve been thinking about something like this. Anyone else interesting in working on this?

Me me I'm interested.