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New Custom Firmware for Xiaomi Cameras based on Hi3518e Chipset. It features RTSP, SSH, FTP and more!

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Official Discord Server Trello Board

Why another Yi firmware?

The answer is simple: missing updates, RTSP and not based on the latest stock firmware (which features improvements and new cool stuff). The effort and work that has been put into the other projects is great and without them the making of this new version wouldn't be possible.

Alpha stage

The firmware is currently in alpha stage, it has been tested by the people on the Discord Server on their cameras.

A pre-release will be publicly available in the next days.

Table of Contents

Features

This firmware will add the following features:

  • NEW FEATURES
    • NEW CAMERAS SUPPORTED: Yi Outdoor 1080p and Yi Cloud Dome 1080p
    • viewd - a daemon to check the /tmp/view buffer heads/tails location.
    • RTSP server - which will allow a RTSP stream of the video while keeping the cloud features enabled.
      • Based on @andy2301's rtsp2303 server integrated with the viewd daemon
      • (it works but sometimes it randomly hangs)
  • In development:
    • A static image snapshot from the web interface.
    • The possibility to disable all the cloud features while keeping the RTSP stream.
  • Features from the yi-hack-v3 firmware
    • SSH server - Enabled by default.
    • Telnet server - Disabled by default.
    • FTP server - Enabled by default.
    • Web server - Enabled by default. Not yet, needs further development.
    • Proxychains-ng - Enabled by default. Useful if the camera is region locked.

This firmware might add:

  • Alarm functionality via Telegram (@frekel's PR #177 in yi-hack-v3)
  • Auto upload of the recorded footage to the cloud (eg. Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
  • Rotation control (on Yi Dome versions of the camera) without need for the app.
  • You decide, just open an issue with the request.

Supported cameras

Currently this project supports the following cameras:

  • Yi Home 17CN / 27US / 47US
  • Yi 1080p Home
  • Yi Dome
  • Yi 1080p Dome
  • Yi 1080p Cloud Dome
  • Yi 1080p Outdoor

Do you have one of these? Read the section below.

Contribute to the development

Add support to new camers

To add support for a new camera I need to test the firmware on it, if you want to help the development open an issue with the model you own and we'll start testing it.

Donations

I don't like asking for donations, I prefer PRs to help the development. If you really want to send me a contribution, I will be glad to accept it and it will be used only to buy new cameras to test the firmware on.

How to compile the Firmware

TO DO - Maybe in the wiki

Getting Started

TO DO - (It will be really similar to yi-hack-v3's guide)

Unbrick your camera

TO DO - (It happened a few times and it's often possible to recover from it)

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the following people and projects, without them yi-hack-v4 wouldn't be possible.


DISCLAIMER

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE OR DAMAGE THIS SOFTWARE MAY CAUSE. THIS IS INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.