Now my ass has burst - as we say in Germany. I put so much pointless time into my cameras and every time there was always “something” that no longer wanted to work. After I swapped from my Fibaro Z-Wave devices to Wlan modules + a Raspi with Home Assistant, my complex scenery work fine now without problems. Now I want start with my cameras.
I have certain aesthetic requirements and I have long been looking for an inconspicuous solution that I can integrate into my home network without a cloud connection. Every time I realized that either the camera is not properly connected to the Surveilance Station, nor the RDP stream in my home assistant works correctly. Then the sound is poor or there are extreme delays when using it as an intercom. Every time some “tools” have to be clamped in between or has to be hacked in some manor to make it work. And mostly only for a short time.
I now want to completely rebuild my Steinel L600. I have already made my first experiences with Tasmota and flashing ESP32 because of my Z-Wave switch to the WiFi modules. So I think that I can do something nice and give the community an impetus on how to get an aesthetic and fully configurable L600. The following two videos serve as a basis:
I’m curious if you guys made any progress…I’m having the same Steinel L600 light/cams and I’ve managed to get them streaming in the ICSEE app. This is a app normally used for Chinese ip cams.
Maybe you can try the app on your android and scan your network to see if the app will also find the Steinel L600 and you maybe find some details on the device info settings which could trigger some idea’s.
Would be nice if we could get these devices into HA
Another interested party here…
I haven’t made the purchase yet bit the same reasons as given before make me look at this thing. It’s nice and functional.
You all remain happy with it after all tis time? Or has your opinion changed?
actually, there are multiple exploits floating around for that cam-lamp gen. its basycally all the same buggy firmware, so buggy that hisilicone, the chip-manufactuere actually went out of its way to explain that the buggy firmware has nothing to do with him but its the responsibility of the manufactuere, some white lable guy from china. who does not want to fix it, with millions of sold units. I love that.
I would be hightly annoyed if I would have payed the recomended sales price of 249€ for it, i got it in a show case units sale for 18€, and even thats more than what its worth.
and a french dude made it to almost working state with openIPC
and over in the German iobroker forum they discuss that lamp at length.
I personally own a lutec ST1906-cam, same ingredients, other casing. I havent been able to jail brake it, it runs, and I use the XmEye app, as its WAY better than the steinel app that is worlds ahead of the lutec app. Since i havent found time to jail brake it, back in 2020 when i got it I jailed the cam to offline only, as I dont want to have any “notifications”, i basically want some good light from IR and recordings of the mail service leaving me my parcels, to prove if I got em or not, and who may took em other than one of us.
I tried following the guide from tothi, but the script doenst work on my debian 12, I might go and grab one of my old buster VMs and clone one to try it out one day. The hack was done in 2020, so buster should have the right versions of everything.
