My camera is now feeding into my HomeAssistant server via go2rtc , and I sleep better knowing Big Brother isn't watching through my lens.
sf probe 0 sf erase 0x0 0x1000000 sf write 0x41000000 0x0 0x40000 # Write U-Boot sf write 0x42000000 0x50000 0x800000 # Write rootfs reset The camera rebooted. The serial console filled with Linux boot messages. No more Chinese backdoors—just a clean OpenIPC login: prompt. openipc install
I then enabled the (OpenIPC’s daemon for video): My camera is now feeding into my HomeAssistant
Instead of throwing that perfectly good hardware into the e-waste bin, I decided to go nuclear: . 2026 Category: Embedded Linux / Surveillance
ifconfig eth0 up udhcpc -i eth0 Boom. The router assigned 192.168.1.99 .
Published: April 14, 2026 Category: Embedded Linux / Surveillance