Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera
I was hoping this was going to end with "look, it runs embedded linux and here's how to get root, on a $20 camera". That would solve this problem:<p>Does anyone know of a good way to have a camera stream video over WiFi to my server, which can then forward it to the Internet, without passing through a third party? And, ideally, without opening ports. Burned too many times by buying cameras with streaming systems that are shut down two years later.<p>I think if I could get root on embedded linux on a WiFi camera, I could set up an SSH tunnel and go from there. But with the current IP camera I wasn't smart enough to get root (or a shell at all, IIRC) and it wouldn't take firmware updates.<p>So right now I have a terrible hacky solution where it FTPs an image to me every ten seconds, and then I put serve that... but a real stream would be way better.