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Are you saying they all come with the same firmware/software or they can be flashed to something else? It seems just as risky picking from a bunch of white lab
by mlrtime 8mo ago
Are you saying they all come with the same firmware/software or they can be flashed to something else?
It seems just as risky picking from a bunch of white labeled chinese knock-off type cameras, who knows whats running on them.
- nixpulvis 8mo agoAn external firewall with strict no WAN access would be smart regardless.
- kristopolous 8mo agoThey seem to come with the same capabilities. I assume they farm out the firmware to someone else that they license from, then they get the firmware at basically free in the hope that the firmware maker will push their cloud product but this is all speculation. These are all working "on the reservation" - I'm not flashing anything. There's always a risk but I think these are just cameras. They might be running a spy rig side hustle but they open up their ports. I haven't gotten two way audio or the camera motor to move around on the ONVIF protocol yet but there's "profiles" that can do this ... I'll just have to see if the cameras respond to those profiles. If not I'll contact Wansview. In my experience with Chinese companies when I contact them about things like this they treat me as if I'm about to pull the trigger on 100,000 of them so who knows, maybe wansview is the win here. I'm totally open to nice things being cheap.