Inspired by how Valetudo installs webserver in the original firmware, and changed the local hosts file to ensure my vacuum is not talking to China, but to local software, I have a question:
Is there anybody here working on hacking generic low cost video doorbells to avoid chinese servers ? And possible get live access to the doorbell camera feed ?
It would consist of relative few steps:
- Log all DNS requests
- Let local DNS server answer with IP address of Fiddler - MitM certificat is likely possible.
- Log all traffic
- Make sense of traffic, generate a fake server to answer the requests as expected and put it in a docker container so it can be installed through supervisor.
- Change local DNS server to point the DNS lookups to local server.
2-way talk to phone app would have to come later. Would also need new app - unless HomeAssistant app would accept this as extra feature.