I wrote Wyrecam (https://github.com/radredgreen/wyrecam) to solve this problem. It works as well as Apple HomeKit works, which isn't all that well. Firmware supports wyze v3 (ingenic t31).
replyNot exactly open firmware, but something like ONVIF on an isolated network is pretty close. An ONVIF camera should talk to basically any NVR (network video recorder), there are several open-source ones available.
replyThere are tons of ONVIF-compliant and cheap PoE cameras, and with this setup you really don't care about the security of the manufacturer firmware since you aren't exposing them to the network publicly. However, you do need to be extra diligent when configuring your VLAN/network segmentation.
There is also https://thingino.com/ which has a clear set of supported cameras. The installation is straight forward if you choose a cam with SD-Card flashing support. I upgraded two of the Sonoff Slim Gen2 without any issues.
replyI also use thingino and it was very easy to use. It has wireguard support, but I just set up my firewall so cams are only accessible over tailscale.
replyYou can get close.... I guess...
replySome cameras do support thingino, so you can override their firmware. Then there's this: https://openipc.org/supported-hardware/featured
Seems like the shop is broken?
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Huh, it was working an hour ago. The outdoor 8MP variant was around the 85 euro mark.
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replyNot exactly what you have asked for, but ESP32 based M5Stack and Seeed Xiao modules might fit the bill. They are not so expensive, are Linux-free, and there's no report so far of secret ping home features in the SDK.
replyESP32-CAM
replyI so want these to be a viable solution but man my experience so far is that it can barely be made to work and only in the most favorable environments. Compare that to the blink cameras I used to run outside where it occasionally went below -20F and they still went over a year on a couple batteries.
replyThank you. Ordered one to play around and see if this is a viable alternative.
replyI wish...
The best I've found is https://openipc.org/ which is a very manufacturer unsupported way of reflashing certain chips with open-source firmware. It seems very fiddly as only certain SoCs are supported and good luck finding out if a specific Chinese camera has one.
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