So I wanted a simple wifi camera, for an outdoor project of mine. The plan is to point it at the horizon, and then snap a photo every day at dawn. In order to do this, I needed a cheap outdoor camera. Coming in at $35, we have the Amiccom Wifi camera. Z_22047 seems to be the model number.
The reviews on Amazon are pretty much all over the place. Some saying it's garbage, some saying it just works, some obviously don't know how to use a camera or a phone. But it was cheap so I went for it.
- Powered it on, downloaded the app. Once you power it on, it actually verbally walks you through the steps through the microphone. That was surprising.
- The app was hard to find, there was nothing obvious in the store, and QR codes give me hives. Finally found it, you are looking for "Jawa".
- The app configures the camera's wifi to whatever your phone is connected to, so if you have multiple WiFi's, change your phone first. Then it does this insane modem audible speaker trick to configure the device. Strangely, it works.
So now it's time to hack at it. It runs port 80, and 2600. 80 gives nothing useful I could find. However, if you dig around in the app, you can find a "NVR Password". This is what you need.
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://admin:<NVR PASSWORD>@<CAMERA IP>:2600/stream0 -vframes 1 ~/images/file.jpg
And boom. That is how you talk to the little fella. I could probably wire it into homeassistant, but instead, I did this.
For $35, I'm super happy with this little camera. Good image quality, does exactly what I want, I can talk to it with ffmpeg. Yeah.. This is great. Highly recommend.
