My sonoff camera arrived.. and I'm impressed

These Wyze camera's get decent reviews

Tempted to order from Amazon and get 2x for R1200 including delivery and customs, does amazon use couriers?

Takealot.com: Online Shopping | SA's leading online store

South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.
www.takealot.com www.takealot.com
Local R895 each

 
Problems with wyze cam v2, scans QR code on ipad and or iphone 8plus but just doesn't connect to my home wifi?

Tried the other unit and same thing cant connect to your network.
 
Last edited:
Reset everything including router, will not connect, now I see I might need to downgrade firmware, not impressed.
 
Heard it might be glare on the screen and I must now print the QR code onto white paper.
Seriously
 
Unchecked box WP 2 now it connects. Still using wpa2 security
 
abudabi said:
View attachment 765682

Have had it at various places over the last few nights and I can't complain. Unbox was easy / Setup was easy / RTSP was easy (just testing to VLC)

Dr Z also likes it :

Will point it out into the garden tonight to test the IR
Click to expand...

Good stuff, we're bringing in some more. They sold out like hot cakes!
 
I like this little Sonoff Camera (more videos in the post) - I am going to find my Ubiquiti 2MP camera which costs 10 times more than this and show you the night vision on the Sonoff is pretty much the same quality.

erikthiart.com

Erik Thiart's Blog: Technology Guides, Business, Life Hacks & Tips

Warning: Site may include traces of politics, maths, computer science, handicrafts and possibly even pictures of cute kittens. YMMV. And make sure your sarcasm detector is turned on and fitted with a fresh set of batteries. This blog serves as a personal journal and testing ground for ideas...
erikthiart.com erikthiart.com


 
Thor said:
I like this little Sonoff Camera (more videos in the post) - I am going to find my Ubiquiti 2MP camera which costs 10 times more than this and show you the night vision on the Sonoff is pretty much the same quality.

erikthiart.com

Erik Thiart's Blog: Technology Guides, Business, Life Hacks & Tips

Warning: Site may include traces of politics, maths, computer science, handicrafts and possibly even pictures of cute kittens. YMMV. And make sure your sarcasm detector is turned on and fitted with a fresh set of batteries. This blog serves as a personal journal and testing ground for ideas...
erikthiart.com erikthiart.com


Click to expand...

Internal only or can it be mounted outside? Have you tried exposing as an RTSP stream and then plugging in to something like Zoneminder?
 
jsheed_sa said:
Internal only or can it be mounted outside? Have you tried exposing as an RTSP stream and then plugging in to something like Zoneminder?
Click to expand...
Yea, it comes with external mounting plate - but the plastic is cheap ABS I don't think it will withstand elements and it is not waterproof, the rain will the circuit board which is exposed.

I run it via node-red, it worked on Blue iris and Luxriot and plain old VLC so the RTSP feed is nice.
 
Thor said:
Yea, it comes with external mounting plate - but the plastic is cheap ABS I don't think it will withstand elements and it is not waterproof, the rain will the circuit board which is exposed.

I run it via node-red, it worked on Blue iris and Luxriot and plain old VLC so the RTSP feed is nice.
Click to expand...

Bought 2 for home, tested RTSP at work on the Zoneminder server (Would recommend), view is better than em Foscams at double the price. <-- It might be bias, but for me it looked a lot sharper esp the night cam.

Also works great with Home Assistant.
 
Thor said:
Do we know what protocol the sonoff uses for PTZ?
Click to expand...

Do not know myself but I am sure if you scratch in AlexxIT's code on githib you might find a hint?

I'm sitting with another dalema, I want to give my cameras static IP address for Home assistant without flasing them as my HUAWEI B315s don't have an option to bind IP's. Only solution I found so far is to install another Pi, might be an option to make it a Pi-hole as well, but thats for later.

For those concerned about security: My IoT is sitting on its own Huawei with Rain R250 sim. My home network is on Telkom capped and behind a T-Link TL-R470T that balance to the rain sim during off peak hours.
 
Thor said:
If you want that kind of camera then rather just het the 2MP UNV cameras locally from eurobyte.

They've about R250 each and the pictures quality is very good better than any other 2MP you'll find.
Click to expand...

I've got a Pro Vision DVR. Do you know this this will work with that?
 
F1 Fan said:
I've got a Pro Vision DVR. Do you know this this will work with that?
Click to expand...
Should work -- Uniview has their own NVR so some features like smart tracking, facial recognition, etc won't work, but basic video feed will work.
 
Dam, so I bought a Hikvision cam 2mp, and it turns out that Hik only works on Hik DVR. Unlucky.
 
F1 Fan said:
Dam, so I bought a Hikvision cam 2mp, and it turns out that Hik only works on Hik DVR. Unlucky.
Click to expand...
I have several Hikvision cams and they work fine with my no name DVR .
What are you trying to record on and what model cams ?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X