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It would be really good to see this kind of effort on the Amazon Blink cameras, I know people who are returning them because they are app-trash no differently t
by fuzzfactor 2y ago
It would be really good to see this kind of effort on the Amazon Blink cameras, I know people who are returning them because they are app-trash no differently than the no-name (multiple ghost names actually) hardware like this.
There's lots of garbage cameras now of various quality that behave the same way.
What's needed is a replacement firmware and simple flashing technique for the most popular units to appear, so it's not just one hacker getting proper performance that the hardware is capable of.
- stacktrust 2y agoBlink cameras have amazing battery life due to proprietary silicon, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065319 > These would be tough as they are based on a proprietary ASIC which is poorly documented even for internal developers. Ask me how I know. Teardown thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33683122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33683122
- fuzzfactor 2y agoYikes, that ASIC is so advanced that any product built around it will in some ways be designed for the landfill far more so than an equivalent that was generic.