wyrecam

HomeKit camera firmware for ingenic T31X based wyze cameras

Status

This project is a work in progress.

Progress

Homekit pairing (fixed pairing code 010-72-024)
Jpeg snapshots
Video streaming (SRTP, not HKSV yet)
Secure end-to-end (camera to iOS device or home hub) AES256 (AES_256_CM_HMAC_SHA1_80) encryption provided by MBEDTLS
Hardware accelerated video pipeline with setup for srtp (H264), hksv (H264), motion and jpeg snapshots
Audio microphone and speaker pipeline
fdk-aac AAC-ELD soft codec for camera microphone data streaming to controller
Hardware accelerated motion detection and with homekit motion notifications
Day/Night IR filter automatically enabled based on the brightness of the scene
IR LED Floodlights have been tested (but disabled for now)

The ability to stream RTSP using t31_rtspd(live555) was removed from the camera to make room for positron development.

This project aims for the following:

100% open source (readable and inspectable) software
- U-Boot: Control from the very first command executed
- Kernel: Fully open source kernel software
- Drivers and SOC libraries are a work in progress (see TODO.md for remaining BLOBs)
- Video and audio streaming software
- No closed source or precompiled toolchains
First class support for HomeKit
- Goal to support HKSV natively from the camera with high performance
- Can be disabled through configuration
First class support for RTSP
- Many custom camera configurations use RTSP to self host video backend processing and vendors are removing this functionality to drive people to their cloud services
- Can be disabled through configuration
As secure as possible
- Only SSHD (dropbear) and HomeKit (Apple APK) / RTSPD (live555) listening ports running. SSHD can be disabled.
- Secure root password setup at install
No anti-features
- No web configuration - you'll have to ssh into the camera or use and SD card to configure it
- No method of auto-update (why should you trust this repo not to be hacked?) - you'll have to update manually
- No tftp boot image requests
- Designed to work without an internet connection (on a dedicated VLAN for example)
Built on cheap (WYZEC3, etc) cameras for low cost

Building

The first two optional steps build the factory boot kernel for initial boot from the sd card

TODO This first step will probably error out trying to build an sd card image - that's ok for now

(optional) ./building.sh t31_install_wyzec3
(optional) cp output/images/uImage factory_t31_ZMC6tiIDQN
./building.sh t31_wyzec3

Copy the image to an SD card (know what you're doing)

dd if=/output/image/wyrecam_install.img of=/dev/<sdb> bs=512

Configure and install

Insert the new sd card into a computer and edit update.sh to add the wifi credentials and a root passwd (search for passwd and replace with your new passed)

Optionally disable ssh and enable blinking lights to see when the flash process is done

Unmount the sd card and eject from the computer

Insert the sd card into the camera and power on. Red LED light will turn on

DO NOT REMOVE POWER for 10 minutes - this build has no recovery mechanisms from interupted upgrades.

Upgrade finish times

Flash Backup: 2:03 m
Flash Erase: 2:49 m
Flash Write: 3:09 m
Flash Verify: 3:14 m
Flash Finish configure: 3:21 m
Boot Compete: 4:00 m

Red LED light blinks. Unplug power.

Remove sd card from the camera and backup spi_backup/backup.bin I recommend saving this with the filename of the MAC of the camera. This file can be used to recover the the camera to the original firmware - just rename the file to nor_full.bin, load it to the sd card and reflash.

Documentation

See the docs directory for more documentation

Similar projects, references and credits

v3-unlocker

https://git.i386.io/wyze/v3-unlocker

U-boot used and the method of creating an SD card were borrowed from wyrecam

OpenIPC

The point-of-departure for wyrecam. This project aims to be mergable with OpenIPC down the road but will remain separate until all components of OpenIPC (especially Majestic) are fully open source.

t20_rtspd

https://github.com/geekman/t20-rtspd, basis of the basic rtsp streamer used in rel 1.

Dafang-Hacks

Several places refer to this repository although it was not used in the developemnt of WyreCam https://github.com/Dafang-Hacks

Apple HAP ADK

https://github.com/apple/HomeKitADK, likely the basis of homekit functionality in future releases see joebelford's useful fork: https://github.com/joebelford/HomeKitADK and https://github.com/joebelford/homekit_camera

hkcam

https://github.com/brutella/hkcam, a camera project that I used previously

hap-nodejs

https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS, and homebridge, camera projects I used previously

homebridge-ffmpeg

https://github.com/Sunoo/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg, a camera project I used previously

homebridge-unity

https://github.com/hjdhjd/homebridge-unifi-protect/blob/main/docs/HomeKitSecureVideo.md and all the folks that got hksv to work on homebridge showing that this project was feasable

radredgreen / wyrecam

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