- Oct 26, 2017
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I picked up some of the Xiaomi cams from China last year...in the middle of the night...after maybe having a little too much wine...and they're garbage. There's hacked firmware out there but it doesn't really support my cams, and it would stay connected via onvif for ~30 mins before dropping out and a reboot kills it all. The other one is grainy and useless when it feels like connecting at all.
I know folks have edited the WYSE cams to some extent, I'm looking less for surveillance (outside is all Dahua 4Mp and better) and more for monitoring. These won't be battery backed up, won't have sd cards in them, just watching the comings and goings of some children and pets.
Edit: I'm a network engineer @ a financial institution, it doesn't need to be "easy", but it does need to be "reliable."
I know folks have edited the WYSE cams to some extent, I'm looking less for surveillance (outside is all Dahua 4Mp and better) and more for monitoring. These won't be battery backed up, won't have sd cards in them, just watching the comings and goings of some children and pets.
Edit: I'm a network engineer @ a financial institution, it doesn't need to be "easy", but it does need to be "reliable."
It's got wi-fi if you want, and works with POE wired connections, as well. Particularly nice when you don't want to have a wall-wart and power lead hanging around.
