Any plans to add live view and controls to the web server?

[lazibayer]

I love the camera but I wish I can use it at places without ANY internet connection. I have an old Fujikam that allows me to do that by simply navigating a browser to its IP address.

[shadow-1]

@lazibayer I do not plan on developing this feature any time soon.

However I am planning on developing RTSP support which will allow use at places without an Internet connection. However not through the web server but through a program running on a PC or through a smartphone app which will not require Internet access.

[lazibayer]

That's good news! Thanks for your continuous effort!

[alexgorbatchev]

May I suggest a similar feature that could be "easier" to implement. A static JPEG url that could be accessed and which is updated every N seconds. This would integrate very well with home automation systems like openHAB which allow to display URL images on the monitors and refetch them every N seconds.

Thoughts?

[alexgorbatchev]

Also, this project allows RTSP streaming https://github.com/xmflsct/yi-hack-1080p

[Ben47]

Hi, I have a camera yi dome 720p international. I put the firmware yi-hack-v3. How can I access the video stream of my camera on a browser? (ex -> http: // ip_camera :?) What are the internal and external TCP port numbers to use? thank you in advance Benoit

[lazibayer]

Also, this project allows RTSP streaming https://github.com/xmflsct/yi-hack-1080p

I check that project and it seems that RTSP and Yi Home access are mutually exclusive. Will it be the same case for this project as well?

[kruschman]

It looks like that project is only for the 1080p version. Does anyone know if it will work with the 720p 27US version since they apparently have the same image sensor?

[shadow-1]

@alexgorbatchev I will have to investigate whether an updating webpage will be easier to implement than RTSP. I know of this project as I have had some input into it.

@Ben47 Unfortunately only the official Xiaomi apps are supported at this time (Android, iOS and Windows).

@lazibayer I do not plan to make RTSP and Yi Home access mutually exclusive. However I will have to see how I go.

@kruschman Yes this other project is specifically for the Yi 1080p Home camera. As far as I am aware, the 720p 27US version of the camera uses a different image sensor. Therefore to make this preliminary RTSP implementation work on the 720p cameras, it needs to be recompiled against the correct image sensor library.

[dvv]

+1 for managing to obtain the static JPEG image. This is beacuse if it is available somehow, it can be sent with periodic scripts, accessed via ftp polling, busybox's (more fat) httpd applet, hand-made poorman shell-based http server, used as the source for mjpeg-streamer's input_file.so etc etc etc you name it.

Just FYI, in motion detection mode /tmp/motion.jpg becomes available at motion start.

[shadow-1]

@dvv Thank you for the information. I wonder if the JPEG image gets updated regularly or whether it gets created once per motion event.

[dvv]

Once. It gets rid after several seconds and I had no chances to play with it more thoroughly. I believe it's sent to cloud then quickly removed.

I managed to (seemingly) robustly catch motion alarm start by the next script (by heart, no camera at hands):

tail -F /tmp/log.txt | awk '
/: got a new motion start/ {
  print "ALARM+"
  system("<START HERE A SHELL COMMAND TO NOTIFY OF ALARM HAS BEGUN>")
}
/: got a new motion stop/ {
  print "ALARM-"
  system("<START HERE A SHELL COMMAND TO NOTIFY OF ALARM HAS ENDED>")
}
'

Moreover, there are some debug info in /tmp/log.txt containing URLs the camera sends to the cloud -- may be it's worth to catch-proxy them for some kind of data or further kludges.

[nicolasplanchon]

@dvv could you tell us a little bit more regarding the way you implement your script please ? :)

[dvv]

I added a script /home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh:

#!/bin/sh

exec tail -F /tmp/log.txt | awk '
/: got a new motion start/ {
  print "ALARM+"
  system("wget -q --spider \"http://192.168.43.1:8765/sms?phone=XXXXXXXXXX&text=cam4\"")
}
/: got a new motion stop/ {
  print "ALARM-"
}
'

and made it called from /home/yi-hack-v3/script/system.sh:

if [ -f "/home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh" ]; then
        sh /home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh &
fi

The camera is WiFi-ed via an android phone in WiFi hotspot mode, so the phone's IP is known to be 192.168.43.1.

I installed tasker on that phone with TNES plugin which listens to port 8765. I added the task to listen to incoming HTTP GET requests to /sms endpoint, extract phone and text variables from the querystring and send SMS.

It just does work )

[shadow-1]

@dvv The work you have done is impressive. Being able to send a sms message upon motion detection is quite an achievement.

[dvv]

Right, with https-powered wget in hands and robust detection of start of motion we can do very much. I would post to telegram:

wget -q --spider 'https://api.telegram.org/bot<APIKEY>/sendMessage?chat_id=<CHAT>&text=ALARM!'

[dvv]

The log.txt parser evolved:

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright 2017 Vladimir Dronnikov
# GPL

exec tail -F /tmp/log.txt | awk '
/: got a new motion start/ {
  # motion just started
  print "ALARM+"
  #system("wget -q --spider \"http://192.168.43.1:8765/sms?phone=9190504182&text=cam4\"")
}
/: cmd=\/home\/app\/cloudAPI -c 411 .* -filename \/tmp\/motion\.jpg\.crypt/ {
  # photo ready
  print "PHOTO"
  system("cp /tmp/motion.jpg /tmp/temp.jpg ; nc 192.168.34.10 1884 < /tmp/temp.jpg &")
}
/: cmd=\/home\/app\/cloudAPI -c 411 .* -filename \/tmp\/motion\.mp4\.crypt/ {
  # video ready
  print "VIDEO"
  system("cp /tmp/motion.mp4 /tmp/temp.mp4 ; nc 192.168.34.10 1885 < /tmp/temp.mp4 &")
}
/: got a new motion stop/ {
  # motion stopped, cleanup
  print "ALARM-"
  system("rm -f /tmp/temp.*")
}
/_____Gamma test for table 4__________/ {
  # daylight mode
}
/_____Gamma test for table 2__________/ {
  # night mode
}
'

I do miss https-enabled curl for uploading photo and video and replaced it with nc + some helper at another host in local net so far.

@shadow-1 couldn't you provide us with curl?

[dvv]

I finally found that curl and now the script looks like:

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright 2017 Vladimir Dronnikov
# GPL

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=XXX
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=YYY

# NB: curl from https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/tree/master/sd/test/curl

exec tail -F /tmp/log.txt | awk -v TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}" -v TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}" '
# TODO: urlencode text
function sendText(text) {
  system("curl -k -q --data \"chat_id=" TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID "&text=" text "\" \"https://api.telegram.org/bot" TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN "/sendMessage\"")
}
function sendPhoto(file, text) {
  system("curl -k -q -F photo=@" file " \"https://api.telegram.org/bot" TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN "/sendPhoto?chat_id=" TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID "&caption=" text "\"")
}
function sendVideo(file, text) {
  system("curl -k -q -F video=@" file " \"https://api.telegram.org/bot" TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN "/sendVideo?chat_id=" TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID "&caption=" text "\"")
}
/: got a new motion start/ {
  # motion just started
  print "ALARM+"
  sendText("ALARM+")
}
/: cmd=\/home\/app\/cloudAPI -c 411 .* -filename \/tmp\/motion\.jpg\.crypt/ {
  # photo ready
  print "PHOTO"
  system("cp /tmp/motion.jpg /tmp/temp.jpg")
  sendPhoto("/tmp/temp.jpg", "PHOTO")
}
/: cmd=\/home\/app\/cloudAPI -c 411 .* -filename \/tmp\/motion\.mp4\.crypt/ {
  # video ready
  print "VIDEO"
  system("cp /tmp/motion.mp4 /tmp/temp.mp4")
  sendVideo("/tmp/temp.mp4", "VIDEO")
}
/: got a new motion stop/ {
  # motion stopped, cleanup
  print "ALARM-"
  sendText("ALARM-")
  system("rm -f /tmp/temp.*")
}
/_____Gamma test for table 4__________/ {
  # daylight mode
}
/_____Gamma test for table 2__________/ {
  # night mode
}
'

That's all for now.

[frekel]

@dvv: I am trying to get your script working, but I can not use curl:

/home/yi-hack-v3/sbin# curl curl: can't load library libz.so.1

Can you provide a small howto?

Thanks, Frank

[dvv]

@frekel try putting https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/blob/master/sd/test/curl/libusr/libz.so.1.2.8 as /home/yi-hack-v3/lib/libz.so.1 and use

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/yi-hack-v3/lib curl ...

Does it work?

[frekel]

~ # wget https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/raw/master/sd/test/curl/libusr/libz
.so.1.2.8
Connecting to github.com (192.30.253.113:443)
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.36.133:443)
libz.so.1.2.8        100% |*******************************| 87531   0:00:00 ETA
~ # cp libz.so.1.2.8 /home/yi-hack-v3/lib/libz.so.1 
~ # cd /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin/
/home/yi-hack-v3/sbin # curl
curl: try 'curl --help' for more information

Works like a charm!

[dvv]

\o/

[shadow-1]

curl can also be cross-compiled without compression support. This will eliminate the dependency with libz.

[josemonino]

@frekel

~ # wget https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/raw/master/sd/test/curl/libusr/libz.so.1.2.8 Connecting to github.com (192.30.253.113:443) Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.36.133:443) libz.so.1.2.8 100% |***| 87531 0:00:00 ETA ~ # cp libz.so.1.2.8 /home/yi-hack-v3/lib/libz.so.1 ~ # cd /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin/ /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin # curl -sh: curl: not found

could you help me? I don't know how to compile curl for the camera...

Thanks

[dvv]

@josemonino it's referenced in the script above: # NB: curl from https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/tree/master/sd/test/curl

[josemonino]

@dvv Thanks a lot.

Your script is incredible. I'm looking forward to run it on my cam. The problem is that I'm not able to get curl in my cam. What should I do?

I put https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/blob/master/sd/test/curl/curl into /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin/ And I put https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/blob/master/sd/test/curl/libusr/libz.so.1.2.8 as /home/yi-hack-v3/lib/libz.so.1 But still not working. With that files, I get Illegal instruction every time I try to execute curl.

Could you help me please?

[frekel]

@josemonino:

Can you do a ls -l from /home/yi-hack-v3/lib and /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin?

Just to be sure we have the same enviroment....

[frekel]

@dvv: The script only look to work for a couple of hours... any suggestions on how to debug this?

[josemonino]

@frekel Hello Frank

/home/yi-hack-v3/lib # ls -l
total 406
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         11052 Dec 22 19:15 libcrypt-0.9.33.2.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          1736 Dec 22 19:16 libnsl-0.9.33.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            18 Jan  1  1970 libnsl.so.0 -> libnsl-0.9.33.2.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         38932 Dec 22 17:56 libproxychains4.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4348 Dec 22 19:16 libutil-0.9.33.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            14 Jan  1  1970 libuv.so -> libuv.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            14 Jan  1  1970 libuv.so.1 -> libuv.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        125752 Dec 22 17:56 libuv.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        142980 Dec 22 17:57 libwebsockets.so
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         87531 Jan  7 00:48 libz.so.1

/home/yi-hack-v3/sbin # ls -l
total 882
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        777293 Jan  7 01:07 curl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        125416 Dec 22 22:46 pure-ftpd

As I said, I put https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/blob/master/sd/test/curl/curl into /home/yi-hack-v3/sbin/ and https://github.com/utya1988/yi-hack/blob/master/sd/test/curl/libusr/libz.so.1.2.8 as /home/yi-hack-v3/lib/libz.so.1

Thanks Jose

[dvv]

@frekel if you have SD card inserted, this is the version I've come so far to use:

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright 2018 Vladimir Dronnikov
# GPL

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=XXX
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=YYY
TELEGRAM_SILENT=0

curl() {
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/sd /tmp/sd/curl -k -s $@
}

message() {
        #curl --data "chat_id=${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}&text=$1" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/sendMessage"
        curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/sendMessage?chat_id=${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}&text=$1&disable_notification=${TELEGRAM_SILENT}"
}

photo() {
        curl -F photo="@$1" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/sendPhoto?chat_id=${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}&caption=$2&disable_notification=${TELEGRAM_SILENT}"
}

video() {
        curl -F video="@$1" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/sendVideo?chat_id=${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}&caption=$2&disable_notification=${TELEGRAM_SILENT}"
}

ALARM=
while true; do
        test -r /tmp/sd/record/tmp.mp4.tmp && REC=1 || REC=0
        if [ "$REC" != "$ALARM" ]; then
                ALARM="$REC"
                echo $ALARM
                message "ALARM+$ALARM"
                [ "n$ALARM" == "n0" ] && rm /tmp/temp.jpg /tmp/temp.mp4
        fi
        [ -r /tmp/motion.jpg -a ! -r /tmp/temp.jpg ] && cp /tmp/motion.jpg /tmp/temp.jpg && echo JPG ready && photo /tmp/temp.jpg JPG
        [ -r /tmp/motion.mp4 -a ! -r /tmp/temp.mp4 ] && cp /tmp/motion.mp4 /tmp/temp.mp4 && echo MP4 ready && video /tmp/temp.mp4 MP4
        sleep 1
done

[dvv]

@josemonino Illegal instruction -- please check if the contents of curl binary and libz.so.1 indeed the binary ones. What their sizes are? And let us upvote having native curl in this firmware.

[dvv]

@josemonino NB: curl which I've got is of 778611 octets length

[frekel]

@josemonino: This is mine... I think something went wrong with downloading curl...

total 883
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        778611 Jan  4 19:09 curl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        125416 Dec 22 22:46 pure-ftpd

[frekel]

@dvv: The last version of your script works like a charm. I have edited it a small bit to hide the ALARM 0/1 and added a CAMERA_NAME variable because I have multiple camera's!

Thanks for the script!

[dvv]

\o/

[frekel]

Small succes!!!

I have edited the script from @dvv:

photo() {
        cp $1 /tmp/sd/record/last.jpg
        curl -F photo="@$1" "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/sendPhoto?chat_id=${TELEGRAM_CHAT
}

and run the following command to get a symlink: mkdir /home/yi-hack-v3/www/img ln -s /tmp/sd/record/last.jpg /home/yi-hack-v3/www/img/last.jpg

add the following to /home/yi-hack-v3/www/about.html (around line 82):

                <h2>Last picture</h2>                                                                
                <img src="img/last.jpg" alt="Last" class="img-thumbnail"> 

[frekel]

@shadow-1: I am trying to create a pull request, but I'm unfamiliar with the c# (?) part of your sources...

Can you point me in the right direction? See: https://github.com/frekel/yi-hack-v3/commit/27820482d3167adeb60dfaaa9089d12bec9e99a8 or my PR: https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3/pull/117

[shadow-1]

@frekel This firmware only uses (Straight) C, there is no C#. I will help you out in the pull request.

[nicolasplanchon]

Hi, Just to be sure to understand:

I have to add your scripting code in /home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh and make it call with

if [ -f "/home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh" ]; then sh /home/yi-hack-v3/script/alarm.sh & fi

in /home/yi-hack-v3/script/system.sh

Right ?

[dvv]

Right, that should work.

[josemonino]

@dvv Thanks a lot. It's working like a charm!!

[eryckm]

@frekel Have you got the images I can use with your ALARM modifications?

[frekel]

@eryckm: Take a look here: https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3/pull/117 I am using the last images (yi-hack-v3 0.1.5)

[xhemp]

Thanks, @frekel. I asked that because of "WIP: Adding alarm functionality (and last motion in webinterface (the changes to the C file) " but looks like you were not able to get that built with the change included.

[frekel]

@xhemp: Unfortunately @shadow-1 hasn't had any time to continue... Sorry!

The PR is working but you can't set settings thru the webinterface. You need to ssh into the camera and update the config-files manually (aswell ftp the new source files!)

[dvv]

I can not find this comment at https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3/issues/79 so am hoping this reply will get the asker. Try /tmp/sd/curl -k https://..... ( And never disclose your bot token! Please edit the comment source to hide the token )

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 12:45, jaxdao notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @dvv https://github.com/dvv I got this error ~ # /tmp/sd/curl " https://api.telegram.org/bot638607717:AAEe4_Mgkh9sV7P8l7L7RFYm i2tMhV5do4E/sendMessage?chat_id=5207785698&text=$1" curl: (51) Cert verify failed: BADCERT_NOT_TRUSTED

Please help !

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[jaxdao]

HI @dvv , Is there a way to detect baby crying in Yi Home 1080p along with motion detection? I found that there are 2 files created babycry.jpg and babycry.mp4 at /tmp/ while it was detecting baby crying

[dvv]

@jaxdao I believe you should copy https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3/issues/79#issuecomment-355892825 and make it watch for these files instead of /tmp/sd/record/tmp.mp4.tmp

[gooman-uk]

The script isn't working for me. I have no folder /tmp/sd/record.

Even if I create it, there's no files created in there while it's recording.

I'm using the latest version of the v3 hack on firmware 1.8.7.0D_201708091510

[EDIT - I should also note that the Yi app notes in settings next to the MicroSD Card: "Abnormality detected, formatting required". I assume that this is because of the use of the SD card for the hack, but maybe not ...]

[SOLVED - The SD card was originally PC-formatted. I reformatted it from the camera itself, and now it recognises the card and saves recordings in /tmp/sd/record ]

[gooman-uk]

@dvv do you have a timeline for exactly when the motion.jpg/.mp4/.jpg.crypt/.mp4.crypt and /tmp/sd/record/tmp.mp4.tmp files get created and deleted?

I'm having intermittent results with your script, and I think it's a timing issue.

[dvv]

@davidgurr No I don't. The script is just a reactive one -- it tries to catch these exact moments. But it just works since creation/deletion takes more than 1 second which is the period of the script.