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Very interesting. Why the downgrade, if not for economical costs (aside from the work $$ to design and remove the circuitry) My electronic skills are limited. Probably better to bite the bullet and buy another one. They are cheap. Nonetheless, I will keep it as a side project (in the huge side proje...

I don't see anything wrong on the PCB...

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From this on the board a few minutes ago. Not from me, but it sure does work! Just tested it Here is what I did in Ubuntu in the mean time. Download VLC if you don't have it already. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html Open it up and go to "Media" in the title bar of the appli...

Yeah, the 12V power supply was from an old Dlink router. I do not know for the life of me why that power supply had a 5v barrel connector. :shock: I will open it and post a picture. Maybe there is a power converter like an AMS1117 or something. Those are easy to replace. I agree I would be very luck...

Hi all! I inadvertently plugged a 12v 2amp power supply in the camera for about 20sec. I does smell a bit like burnt plastics :roll: It no longer rotates on startup nor shows up on the network. I probably fried something... I'm not too bad with electronics, any one managed to open it up and changed ...

I just want to have a quick way to disable the motion detection for my 4 camera and then reactivate it manually when I leave the home. I've been at it for 2days, going thru the API documentation, reading the posts, having at it with javascript, python, php etc.... tried basically to use the digest a...