Mini spy Camera IP

Hardware
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Hi,
I bought IP Camera : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B085G9MXH2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

How to know if i can use it in HA ?

Thank you

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Start by reading the specs? Us there anything about rtsp or other api known?

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If it outputs a jpg image as video stream then you can use the camera like this:


camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: "Davids rum"
    username: "foo"
    password: "bar"
    framerate: 6
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.203/tmpfs/auto.jpg
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Looks like one of these ultra low quality Chinese crapcams that are polluting all of Ali/Ebay/Amazon these days. These things can usually only be used in combination with their malware ridden phone apps, often routing the data stream over whatever suspicious cloud service that will stop working as soon as the not much less suspicious manufacturer closes shop.

That thing probably spies more on you than you on whomever you intend to use it against. My advise is to send it back and buy something like a Wyze with RTSP firmware or something hackable from Xiaomi instead.

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Agree with @HeyImAlex. Also to add a similar camera was asked about on this forum. It was an A6 or an A9 or something. Crap.

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thank you for your advise.
Do you know a spy format wireless cam ?

Thank you

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What is “spy format”?

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:rofl: ahah ah aha

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I’m afraid not, I don’t really have any use for these type of cameras. For my indoor monitoring needs, I use Hikvision DS-2CD2443G0-IW cameras. They’re small’ish, but hardly covert.

Assuming that with ‘spy camera’ you mean a covert pinhole type camera, all the big manufacturers (Hik, Dahua, Axis, etc) have them. Because they’re considered professional niche devices, they’re usually very expensive. You can probably find cheaper (and lower quality) stuff on the usual sites. The important things to look for is RTSP and/or ONVIF compliance. These are universally recognized standards and will allow you to use the camera locally, without some weird cloud service, connect them to HA or any other camera management system or NVR.

In addition to the above I would still keep the cameras isolated on their own LAN or VLAN. Even if they are processed locally, a lot of them tend to phone home and can have some serious security bugs / backdoors in their firmware. Keeping them completely shielded from the internet will mitigate any risks associated with those. You can still access them remotely over HA.

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Thank you for your complete answer.
I’m looking for 2 complete wireless cameras. Indoor one et outdoor one.
I saw Ezviz C3A (Ezviz is Hikvision sub) but RTSP seems not supported.
I also saw Arlo cams that supports RTSP but a crypted

Do you know a complete wireless model supports RTSP