USB plug hidden cam on indiegogo

[mjcother]

looks interesting, thoughts?

Indiegogo link

 

[bigredfish]

Looks like a crowdfunding scam from 2 years ago,. Never delivered a product

 

[mjcother]

do you have a link to that one?

 

[bp2008]

These have been all over amazon.com for at least a year or so, in various styles. Most seem to not have wifi, so video only goes to a micro SD card. Those which do have wifi, it is unclear to me if they offer an RTSP stream or if you need to give them internet access to stream to the manufacturer's servers.

 

[mjcother]

it is a current indiegogo, it is wifi with streaming, they have $100,000k raised... I cannot post the link dude to number of posts... would appreciate an actual link to the inferior ones for informational purposes...

 

[bp2008]

This is a link to the current campaign

I would not touch it. As noted earlier, you can find all kinds of these on amazon.com today if you are really interested in getting one.

 

[mjcother]

wow, helpful....

 

[TonyR]

I would not touch it.

+1^^.
Me neither...it's cloud based.

 

[bigredfish]

Sorry this is the one I first found. see comments


in die gogo. com/projects/cam-usb-hidden-surveillance-camera-in-usb-charger#

For some reason the link is getting blocked?

 

[bp2008]

I think the forum is just trying to do a fancy embed of indiegogo links, and failing. As you noticed, it works if you add the link to a different piece of text.

 

[mjcother]

 

[mjcother]

see that blank reply above? that was a simple url, here it is with commas replacing the dots and undescores replacing the slashes: https:__www,indiegogo,com_projects_noir-discreet-security-camera-and-usb-charger_

 

[Frankenscript]

Anyway, it clearly states that it saves the video and alerts to the cloud, with no mention of support for standards like ONVIF, so I assume it's cloud-only. And it's "free forever" which just means until the manufacturer goes belly up and it becomes a $59 charging brick. I'd be curious what their long term business model is. They can manufacture these for dollars apiece, that's a no brainier. Setting up the cloud server system and app infrastructure and support takes a bit more money. But what sort of long-term model do they have? My only guess is that the video streams become their property and they can use them for whatever they want, legally or not. A little bit of AI processing could probably make the job of reviewing footage for $ shots pretty easy.

Similar cameras go for $30-40 on Amazon for immediate shipping.

I might be interested in getting one similar to these if I could hook it up to BI. Anybody know of one that supports us? The few I looked at appeared to be cloud only.