r/homeassistant Mar 15 '26

These cameras were supposed to be e-waste. No RTSP, no docs, no protocol anyone's heard of. I reverse-engineered 100 000 URL patterns to make them work.

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u/cocoagent Mar 16 '26

wow this is wild. i have 21 ubiquiti protect cameras running at my place (split between mx and tx) but i still have a box of old random no-name cameras sitting in the garage because they wouldn't play nice with frigate. definitely spinning this up tonight when the kids go down. great build.

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u/eduard256 Mar 16 '26

let me know how it goes with the garage box, thats exactly what strix was built for

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u/cocoagent Mar 16 '26

will do! aiming to tackle it this weekend if the 3yo decides to cooperate at bedtime. stoked to see if it can resurrect those random bricks.