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hi to all...
i have one yi 1080p dome and two yi 1080p outdoor camera.

I installed the yi-hack-v4 firmware but i can't connect them to home assistant....
here the code i've got on HA:
`- platform: yi
name: Corridoio
host: !secret camera_ip_01
password: !secret camera_pwd
path: !secret ftp_url'

• platform: yi
  name: Ingresso
  host: !secret camera_ip_02
  password: !secret camera_pwd
  path: !secret ftp_url'

• platform: yi
  name: Cortile
  host: !secret camera_ip_03
  password: !secret camera_pwd
  path: !secret ftp_url`

the entities created succesfully but if i put it on the dashboard the entity are inactive

how can i resolve this problem?

thanks

I have this camera and are willing to help. My technical knowledge is limited but I am willing to help and learn :)

Also, camera is not working now (outside China problem) and I hope it will finally work

Good day,

I have one Yi Home 1080 camera[48US] installed yi-hack-v4 0.1.1 firmware which work properly. Yesterday, my new Yi 1080 Home family pack {4 in 1}[6FUS] purchased from Amazon arrived. Unfortunately, yi-hack-v4 0.1.1 firmware seems not work properly on them.

I used same procedure with my old 1080 camera. Following From "Getting Started" instructions item 1 to 8, everything is fine. However, I can't open the web interface on step 9.

I check the camera information from my router. The hostname field is empty on my new camera, which is different with my old 1080 camera (I already change the hostname on my old camera). After that, I try to use different router to check. And this time, the hostname shows the same with MAC address.

The new camera work fine on my cell phone Yi app, and firmware version show in app is 2.1.0.0E_20180919630. I also try to connect through SSH and FTP server, but all failure. Dose problem come from different SN type 48US & 6FUS?

My Yi 1080 camera all come from Amazon US. The only different is 1 set and 4 in 1 set.

Maybe I just don't understand how the mp3 recordings are written to the file system, but when connecting via SSH or FTP, I am not able to access these files.

So I was wondering if it is not possible to make the FAT filesystem availbale ( i..e mount as directory similar to the /sdcard folder on mobile devices).

In my view this would provide two benefits:

• video recordings would be accessible, and could be even offered via
• Firmeare could be updated OTA (i.e. just overwrite the root_vXX and home_vXX files over fTP and reboot)

In the 0.1.0 version, the timezone could be easily set by putting a TZ file into the /etc/ directory. But in the latest version (0.1.1) it's not working anymore.
So, how can I set the timezone in the latest version? Thank you.

Hello,

Does the firmware support the 22EU yi home camera ?

Thanks in advance

Hello, i flash the firmware succesfully but when i tried to pair it with the yi home china apk it says that "This camera can only be used within china"

Hi Developers,

if someone want to try to compile this project I recommand to use this beautiful helper article for installing toolchain and osdrv for Hi3518E development.
It includes detail error description and detail fixing.

http://www.programmersought.com/article/933051736/

I hope a will reduce of night work to get the setup done, I my case it was a very long night.

Addtional hint that was not on the article for Ubuntu 18.04
Errormessage
fatal error: 'uuid/uuid.h' file not found
Solution:
apt-get install uuid-dev

I bought a Yi Home 1080P (48USYJH1YF) yesterday, configured it, all worked well. Then I tried to install the firmware from https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3 1 (by following the instructions). For my camera this had to be rootfs_y20 and homey20. I got a orange blinking light, then a solid orange one. This is not good.
Then I tried a couple of scenarios:

• Put the official firmware back on the SD card
• Tried the recovery file from https://app.box.com/s/cibs7n1mgvhqaqjlidtveegu1uajt5yr/folder/23494084746

Finally, I found your repository and tried to use it. The orange light blinks for a while at first, so there's definitely something going on, then it becomes solid orange after a while (a minute or so).

SD card was MSDOSFAT32 formatted, there are no file extensions in the filenames, I reset the camera a couple of times,… So I’m out of ideas of what I can do now.
So, the camera is bricked for the moment. Any idea how I can unbrick it?

At first, many thanks for what you are doing for us.

I have updated the firmware with yi-hack-v4 0.03
it works fine, I get the "Status/About" page shown when I enter the IP of the camera in the browser (FireFox).

The access via app to the camera is also working.

Could I also access to the camera to rotate or more via web browser like firefox/chrome or other to move the camera or to see a live picture ?

Many thanks,
Patrick

I currently have a 1080p Dome camera with yi hack v3 installed on it.

Are there any extra steps to install yi-hack-v4? Or should I just do the same as I would install it on a stock firmware?

I have a Yi Outdoor 1080p.

I was able to successfully flash yi-hack-v3.

Then I tried to install the latest version of yi-hack-v4 (0.1.1), but the camera was not booting ( yellow lights were not blinking / just remained out)
Same happens with yi-hack-v4 v0.1.0.

When flashing yi-hack-v4 0.0.3, the camera was working again ( could be flashed & could be paired with the app )

Hello, I see the Yi outdoor camera is in the list of supported camera but does this also support the Chinese version which can only be used in Mainland China? I have tried the ROM (home_h30 & rootfs_h30) but get stuck in step 8 of the setup because I cannot get camera connected to the wifi through Yi App. Any other way to connect camera to wifi without using Yi app?

Hi there,

i found an issue.

After enabling rtsp and viewd my camera went nuts. After playing around with services like ssh and ftp and enabling and disabling them via the menu, the camera went into a bootloop. That means it went back to the "waiting to connect" start, and stays there in a kind of loop. Meaning i can scan a code, but when trying to get into any Wlan it will just blink a bit, and then reboot, asking for connection again.

Fix is possible by reverting to an old version and getting back up.

Bye

Hello TheCrypt0,

Please add the feature that camera can auto upload the recorded footage to the cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox or Youtube (at private mode).

Thank you.

You may, or may not, know that for newer versions of the v3 hack (anything higher than 0.1.4-beta2) integration into Home Assistant wasn’t possible due to a bug in PuteFTPd (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/camera.yi/). There has been a workaround posted (shadow-1/yi-hack-v3#129 (comment)) and I woundered if this could be taken into account with the v4 release?

I'm keen & able to make a PR for this, but wanted to broach the topic first to get your thoughts, @TheCrypt0.

When setting up a Yi camera and plugging in (temporary) wifi details to the app, I noticed that the QR code requires Internet access to be generated. That's pretty concerning since your credentials are being sent into the ether, but also it's cumbersome as setup/changing details is a fiddly manual process (I like automation) but also dependent on their app.

I've got no interest in using their app so as an alternative, one can bypass the dispatch process and its QR reading by just supplying your own wifi config for wpa_supplicant and starting it on boot. A very hacky solution is to pop this into /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v4/startup.sh (using wpa_passphrase to generate the wpa_supplicant.conf):

ifconfig wlan0 up
sleep 1
/home/base/tools/wpa_supplicant -c/tmp/sd/yi-hack-v4/wpa_supplicant.conf -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global -iwlan0 -B &
/home/app/script/wifidhcp.sh &

and tada, wifi with no QR code needed. Obviously, things could be a lot better via init.d scripts or the like (and dispatch needs restarting to stop the annoying "Waiting to connect" blather) so hence me opening this issue first to ping you before I go off and implement a permanent solution.

So, thoughts?

(Thanks for all the work you're doing on this btw!)

I seemed to have bricked a Yi Home 1080P y20 after installing this. The lights flash as normal, and I was even able to flash the recovery image. However, when it powers up the orange light stays on for about 15 seconds, the camera makes an audible click sound, then goes dark. Anyone else have this issue before? I'm nervous about trying to flash more cameras.

Guys!

Yesterday I trying to install 0.1.1 firmware to my 12cn with native firmware 1.8.5.1L_201510301024, but camera is not reacting to the sd-card and firmeware on it, just standart boot and start the write videos into sd-card.

I need just ask, maybe native firmware need to be updated before this hack?

I'm did try 0.1.0 also, and two new sd-cards. But results is not, camera is still wokrk on native firmware.

What I do wrong at the install-process?

Hi guys. I brought my camera back from China to Asia recently and I've been looking for a way to use it. v3 didnt work because of the dead proxy list. I am not tech inclined so I'm asking for a bit more simplified help if possible.

My unit is a 1080 Dome Camera (Black).

Regards

Hi, I installed this great firmware, but I don't know which is the port of rtsp.

I tried 554, but doesn't work... Thanks for all your support!!

Hi,

I own The 47US currently on Firmware 1.8.7.0D_201708091510 running yi-hack-v3 would like to help you in the development of your v4 hack.

S90yandexcp.txt

Please add the following modules to busybox:

• basename
• sort
• expr

Also, please add curl.

1. Does it support Yi home 12CN device?
2. Is there a way to turn on/off camera from telnet/ssh?
3. Can the camera still be paired with Mi Home app?

Thank you in advance!

Hello.

I install this hack, I get notification but I can not see any files on SD card. Motion detection works sometimes, I can see those few second videos from cloud but that's it. I can also see orange color on camera live view timeline but no videos are stored on card.

After using your hack I saw something like "Abnormal detection" in SD card menu. I formated the card few times with Yi app and on computer, sometimes it shows back, replaced the card, same thing, I tried with 8, 16, 32GB etc. Nor I can see videos in tmp/sd directory.

Sometimes I get notification, open, watch those few seconds, sometimes reminds me, that there is an error and gives me to live view mode (video download failed, switch to camera automatically).

My camera is YI Home 47US version, also restored to factory firmware several times (I get notified but sometimes even cloud videos didn't worked). I had this camera for months but never had problems with it.

Hi
Thanks a lot for your efforts! I know the Yi Home Camera 2 is based on a different chipset, but any chances you could work on that as well? I have some of them and would like to help if possible. The only hacks available are based on an outdated firmware.
Thank you!

It's needed that the SD card remains in its slot after firmware modification?, or we can remove it, and the camera works without any SD in the slot?.

Thank you.

Hello,

I would love to have an iptables within the camera, to ensure nothing goes out of my local network, ie : on the chinese cloud, or on internet.

Would it be possible to have such feature ?

thanks in advance,

I recently bought a Yi 1080P Home camera and I have followed the steps to upgrade the firmware but the led is not flashing yellow; It just completes the regular startup process.

I've check my current firmware version and it is 2.1.0.0E_201809191630 (Factory Firmware).

I'm using yi_hack_v4_v0.1.1__yi_home_1080p acording my camera version.

yi-hack-v3 seems to be the same problem.

Could this firmware version be locking the upgrade to 3rd party firmwares?

Hello, just a quick silly question. After flashing the home camera is it ok to delete the two files rootfs and home from the sd card? Fantatsic work by the way to all involved, managed to flash my 3 cameras without an issue and now want to look into RTSP to try and set up someway to record the files locally.

First off thank you Crypt0 to reviving the project. I'm excited to see v4!

I have a 5FCN series of the Yi Home Camera - does this run the Hi3518e chipset?

It was mentioned that the 4F series uses a different chipset:
[https://github.com/shadow-1/yi-hack-v3/issues/233#issuecomment-436081622]( 4F chipset)

Anyway I can contribute to add support to a new camera?

I know this camera has no Hi Chipset, but a RTS3903N. Is there a possibility to support it? Or even a possibility to start a rtsp server?

https://www.amazon.de/FLOUREON-%C3%9Cberwachungskamera-Netzwerkkamera-Sicherheitskamera-Bewegungserkennung/dp/B07M766DJ4/ref=bmx_1/257-5832789-0931813?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07M766DJ4&pd_rd_r=657770d7-4cec-11e9-978a-714b33377841&pd_rd_w=Mu8AR&pd_rd_wg=MAWF9&pf_rd_p=5ebe6468-481b-4dfb-b5f6-485a181d413b&pf_rd_r=K472NDY3D1CQCFC7F7VF&psc=1&refRID=K472NDY3D1CQCFC7F7VF
It can only be controlled via YI IoT App.

I'd love to get an overview of how you use this repo, hopefully in order to eventually expand support for my Yi Home 1080 2. Hoping how to eventually learn to do this kind of stuff myself, but not sure where to get started.

See also:

• niclet/yi-hack-v2#24
• shadow-1/yi-hack-v3#23 (comment)

Hi just wondering if this works with clones like Viden 1080 dome cam
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07PLNDT4R

Firmware 8.0.0046B_201811301813
As it works via the Yi IOT app and seems to link to there other websites I wanted to know before I test it out and likely brick the device as I do not know how to backup the firmware.
Cheers and look forward to your reply wish I bought the original as its cheaper but had to learn the hard way not keen on it messing with my privacy and sending it self off to China without my knowledge!

Hi all

I try yi-hack-v3 but the firmware y20 cannot flash
(cannot ssh / web)

Any guys try b4 4FCN ?

someone said change name from y20 to y23 will run
but i am not sure it this can work or not

hope yi-hack-v4 can solve

There is also 21CN version of the camera it works outside of China although it was a Chinese model. I think it predates the 17CN model (but I'm not sure)

I tried using rootfs_18 (17CN... ) from yi-hack-v3 but camera fails to boot, there are some problems with loading kernel modules (saw it through serial port) and the light stays yellow.

Reverting to this files form restore only unbricked the camera.
https://app.box.com/s/cibs7n1mgvhqaqjlidtveegu1uajt5yr/folder/41400733238

Hi,
would it be possible to have a url to retrieve snapshots from the cam, like for example:

http://ip.cam/image.jpg

Thank you.

Hello,

I have noticed that many on the Android Play Store lament the fact that the original Yi-Home app does not show notifications anymore, and I'm one of the unlucky ones.

Does this firmware somehow fix this situation? I know it is some magic that I'm asking about, but who knows, maybe it is just a matter of reverting something back...

Alternatively, what would it be a workaround that can be achieved today? I have read of a Telegram plugin, but it seems not implemented yet, am I correct?

Kudos to @TheCrypt0 for the great work!

Hi there,

i just successfully flashed a 1080p home camera with your firmware. But either i got something wrong, or i made a misstake in my configuration.

The camera is in my Wlan and i wanted to use the Yi Home App, to use it. But i wanted to get rid of the Cloud Features. So i flashed it and disabled internet connection for the camera in my Router.

But now i dont get any connect to the camera anymore. I testet a lot, and both things ( a - Disabling Internet in the Firewall / b - Disabling Cloud features ) will make my camera not work with the app anymore.

Is there any other way / app i must use, after disabling the online connection of the camera? The way it is right now it is kind of useless for me, unless i want to ignore the fact of security. RSTP doesnt seem to fully work yet, and i would loose the features of the app...

Last interesting fact i found out: If i disable the online connection in the firewall, after i first started the camera, the app will keep on working. But after every restart of the camera, it needs to go online to work.

Thank you for your effort in building such a nice custom firmware, i hope i will get it working for me.

Bye
Michael

Google Drive or Dropbox cloud is the best feature for cameras, i want to help with code

Good day,
I bought a Yi Home 1080P (6FCNY0EHXE) 4 units yesterday, configured it based on the guide line as describe accordingly to yi-hack-v4 0.1.1. unfortunately is not working according.
based on my observation, after power on with sd card attached (software: rootfs_y20 and home_y20) the unit response with continuously orange blinking light until i power off..

hope to receive any valuable advise.

Thank you
Justin

Firmwares yi-hack-v3 and v4 doesn't support this version of Yi camera. I only found one firmware that supports YR-113 do you can look into this firmware and adopt it to yours?

https://github.com/npetrovski/yi-hack-easy

Camera boots OK, but firmware will not install

I own this camera too (european version).
If you need someone for testing... Please feel free...

"Segmentation fault" error when trying to enable viewd and rtsp; i alredy have the license file generated from crypto.

the ProxyChains-ng configration is gone. how to config it in the latest version?

thx

Hi, bought this camera on amazon.it.
DID starts with 4CUSYCN and SN starts with DH30EUW
Does it work on this camera version?

Thanks for your job

When i configured mqtt connection with character # in password. WebApp save in mqtt.conf
MQTT_PASSWORD=Pepe%25231055
Real mqtt password is Pepe#1055

If password contains # not connect.

Nice to see the yi-hack-4 coming alive :)

Just read about the Telegram integration and looked into it.
The basic functionality of that script is to look for alarms and then to trigger something, in that case a Telegram message. I built the same for MQTT -> https://github.com/fbrinker/yi-hack-mqtt

So, as an idea:
Implementing an "alarm-watcher" calling hooks like publishing Telegram or MQTT messages or maybe both. And with MQTT integrated, the following (home) automation possibilities are almost endless :)
[And we could implement the configuration in the new web server?]

I guess the only problem is the limited space on the cameras, so people may have to place the MQTT binaries on the sdcard? [or we "autodownload" them to the sd card if enabled]

If the Telegram PR is merged into this project, I could look into integrating MQTT additionally, if people are interested in this. Otherwise I will update my project to the yi-hack-v4, if necessary :)