Hacking the Xiaomi Dafang IP Camera

Dacs on 05/04/2018 - 15:35

For Ozbargainers who have bought or are thinking of buying the Xiaomi Dafang camera, there's a good guide for how to make it more useful and independent of Xiaomi's cloud:
https://hackernoon.com/hacking-a-25-iot-camera-to-do-more-th…

Comments

GC67 on 05/04/2018 - 15:58

awesome - thanks

Does this work with the 1080 360 ptz ?
No Username on 05/04/2018 - 17:03

Make sure to disable SSH and FTP otherwise anyone can remote into the camera and see you.
RockyRaccoon on 05/04/2018 - 19:31

Keep in mind, the link you use, also recommends DX or Gearbest as the cheapest

DX is around $US33
Gearbest is $A44

https://www.lightinthebox.com/p/xiaomi-dafang-1080p-smart-ip…

Is $US26 ($A34)
- dcep on 06/04/2018 - 14:09
  
  Gone are the days dafang @ aud $20+
PAOK11 on 05/04/2018 - 20:26

+1

can you recommend an easy hack please? & when I say "easy" I mean easy peasy lemon squeezy
ohagas on 06/04/2018 - 07:57

Will this work on the xiaofang camera also?
Ryanek on 06/04/2018 - 08:49

I'm just happy they finally updated the native app to display English!
ohagas on 20/07/2018 - 08:14

My Dafang had a firmware update yesterday to 5.5.1.344 and now it won't connect. Really wish I didn't update (but that red dot got me!). Everything was beautifully beforehand including backing up the footage to my Xiaomi router, motion detection etc. Does anyone know how to downgrade the firmware? Or is the above hack the only option? (Will the hack even work, given I've updated the firmware?).
Thanks