A500s preliminary hacking

Porske

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Hi everyone!
I recently buy this dash-cam and inspired by this post i decide to mess around whit this new toy after installing 1.0.15ww firmware ;)

RTSP stream is available at the same link (640x480 only)
rtsp://192.168.0.1:554
I manage to watch only the front camera :confused:

I connected to wifi ap of the cam and scanning open port I found some interesting goodies
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SSH is not activate, but Telnet works!!! (root is the only user, no password is set)
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Here some info
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network
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Finally also FTP is working
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But Http not :cry:
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It seems that thttpd have disable directory indexing (or directory listing), using .htaccess is pointless.

that's all for now, maybe i can extract the firmware and try to cook some custom ROM... stay tuned :LOL:

Ciao!!
 
Welcome to DCT @Porske :)

Always good to see people discovering ways to make dashcams better even if I don't understand the process.

Phil
 
Yeah! my goal is to use the dash-cam without companion app (and without account), this mean access SD files and view front and rear stream.
FTP is OK, but accessing files via browser would be great.

Next change: set the cam's Wi-Fi card to connect to the home router and not operate as an access point, so when the car is parked outside the house you can also access the recordings from a PC; it's just an idea for now :LOL:
 
hi everybody, i was trying to make my camera to connect to an existin wireless network but with no success.
my linux knowledge is not enough.
has anybody succeed to connect wifi as station?
 
Hello Porske,

How's this going?

Yeah! my goal is to use the dash-cam without companion app (and without account), this mean access SD files and view front and rear stream.
FTP is OK, but accessing files via browser would be great.

Next change: set the cam's Wi-Fi card to connect to the home router and not operate as an access point, so when the car is parked outside the house you can also access the recordings from a PC; it's just an idea for now :LOL:
 
Hi!

I just got this camera installed in my car, and found this community, thanks for every bit, it was pretty useful.

I'm also happy to find out that some people also interested in accessing it over wifi in other ways than the beautiful app :D

I have put some of my findings in this GitHub issue.

This will be mostly a note to self to remember this later, but hopefully it is not too much offtopic.

I will also explain what I did so far, just to have a way to conveniently reach the camera over my home wifi when I want to :D (I am using the same subnet as my main home subnet as the Xiaomi wifi in the camera, 192.168.0.0/24 and this was not the least complicated way to do it but FTP also works nicely)

So I used a Raspberry Pi 4 I had in the drawer. Any linux machine or customizable wifi router can also do it, in my case I needed one ethernet and one wifi connection

I set up the Raspberry's ethernet connection to connect to another segment of my home network so wifi and ethernet will use different subnet. I used two IPs in the same different range, one for the NAT (192.168.43.100), one for just ssh access. Set the Wifi connection of the raspberry to connect to the dashcam AP, and use static IP 192.168.0.2/30. This is important, because this way the routes only overlap between 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.4 and this was fine in my setup as I was not using these addresses in my network.

Then I configured a NAT on this raspberry to forward all incoming (to the IP dedicated for NAT) traffic to 192.168.0.1 (on the wifi) and also set up a source NAT for 192.168.0.1 towards the NAT IP. In order to access this 192.168.0.1 from my 192.168.0.0 network, there was one more step remaining.

I added a virtual IP 192.168.0.1 on my main router, and made a similar DNAT to the 192.168.43.100 address. I could easily access the camera via ftp and telnet from any host in my 192.168.0.0 network.

cheers,
Daniel
 
There a way to mod the sensivity trigger setup? The high mode isn't sensitive enough for me.
 
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