I bought these from the O2 store when they went on firesale for £50 and they are perfect for the job. You can also pop the files on a samba / windows share and connect to it from the camera's interface and it will load the files over the network on reboot - freeing up the USB (although as the network link is torn down when I unload the existing camera module to load my own so it doesn't work for me with my apps)įor visualisation I am using Jogglers from O2. I don't consider this to be an issue as they are rarely restarted. The additional files are very conservative with the timings so the camera boot time takes about 1 minute longer. I have also included the files I have put onto USB sticks on the camera, if you extract the following files (found here) into the root directory of a FAT fomatted memory stick and insert it into the camera it will start the baby camera volume meter on reboot. The firmware released by Trendnet has been updated due to the security holes found by Console Cowboys - I have a new version of the firmware here. The firmware can be found here as before, whilst it works great for me, your mileage may vary.
The other advantage is the firmware has very little available space, and there wasn't enough space for the graphics to be stored for the text and volume meters.
I have modified the firmware with a startup script (which you can download for viewing here) which checks for scripts to be found on either the associated SMB share or a USB stick on startup this should allow for the camera to load additional code at boot without the need to revise the firmware constantly. So I actually finished the first release a couple of months ago but wanted to have it running for a while so I can be sure it is stable before releasing it. All these files can found here, I'll add more complete instructions to automate this when I get some time. As user management is not included in the base busybox provided I have also compiled a more complete version. I have also compiled dropbear with its associated support files (dbclient, dropbearkey and scp) it take a little bit of effort to get this running as you need to copy the libutil.so.0 into the lib directory, generate the keys and add users to the device. You can then use dropbear to have ssh connectivity if you still want the command line as below: Whilst we are talking about security, if you are concerned about telnet being open, I suggest you turn it off in the startup scripts on USB or SMB.
The upgrade procedure released by Trendnet suggests that you need to first install 1.1.0.67 before upgrade which can be found here. However, in an effort to at least try and make them more secure, I have enabled telnet and inserted the boot script to version 1.1.1.74 of the firmware which was released by Trendnet as a result of the excellent work done by Console Cowboys you can download the new and improved firmware here.
To be honest I am not surprised, these cameras are *very* budget and so given that I was using them to watch over the little one I didn't expose them on the internet but have used a cracking piece of software zoneminder to host and record the video when I want to access it outside of the homestead. So, it seems that after several years of these cameras being on the market it appears there are some very basic security holes.