I'd love to see that more standardized and things like OpenWRT for all sorts of IoT junk, giving back control. Opinionated things like Valetudo https://valetudo.cloud
In the end, building a product that could properly facilitate this would just wind up costing more than viewing them as disposable units that you toss out when a newer version of something is available. This is optimal from a capitalism standpoint, but suboptimal from a sustainability standpoint.
Yep, that's probably true.
> 2) This would likely violate most FCC/CE/C-tick/etc. certifications.
IANAL but that doesn't seem like it can possibly be necessarily true, since most computers let you replace the motherboard and wifi card.
> 3) The whole assembly would need to be designed to be field servicable so you could access the circuit boards, which would also add cost (and possible warranty issues).
Not all, but most IoT boxes I've seen already are easy enough to take apart, it's just that there's not much to do with it once it is apart. So I don't think this would be a change.
This would be okay for iot bricks but more useful for laptops. Company gets X years of secrecy and when they abandon support, they open up the secure enclave and let FOSS devs go to town.
I've tried a handful of used hikvision / dahua in the ~100usd range but they don't play nice with anything other than the vendor's software. Like VLC / open source VMSs can't play the RTSP stream. And even then, its a crapshoot whether features like stream configuartion or PTZ work.
I know the ONVIF group publishes a list of verified-compliant models but it's been a pain trying to find one that's affordable and in stock.
I've heard from devs that work on this stuff that most of this pain stems from how loose the ONVIF spec is. Too many optional features (even per "profile"), too vague on requirements, leading to lots of vendor-specific metadata / camera quirks.
What I did was go to them via the https://forums.zoneminder.com and looked for recent posts.
It's even more of a crapshoot because some of the cameras were absolute shite until I found some sketchy Chinese firmware of a particular version, which made them suddenly beautiful.
All of these are very securely cordoned off and unable to contact the Internet at large, of course.
I am now experimenting with the RLN36 NVR instead, and thinking about having enough disks to record continuously instead of events only.
Ideally I want continuous recording, and I want a timeline of events that aren't separate files, but are just shortcuts to alarm times within the continuous recording, with minimal seek delay. Interface must be friendly to small screens (phone size) which the RLN36 web UI isn't particularly. Maybe the zmNinja app.
