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Firmware features, new chips and changes to this site, written up every week or two. In English, Russian and Chinese.
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Cameras that see, and stay sharp while they turn
YOLOv8 runs on the NPU of the GK7205V5x0 with the models in flash and no setup, a pan/tilt camera follows a person and stays sharp through the move, and anti-flicker stops guessing and tests the light.
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- Object detection on the camera's own silicon
- A pan/tilt camera follows a person
- Sharp while you are turning it
- Anti-flicker stops guessing and tests the light
- Storage saver, next to Xiongmai's
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A camera with no speaker plays tunes, and shares itself by link
The IR-cut filter's coil becomes a buzzer that plays Nokia ringtones, Wi-Fi is set up by showing the camera a QR code, and a camera can be shown to anyone by a link.
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Focusing by ear, and exposures measured in seconds
GK7201V200 is supported, a motorised lens can be set from a ladder by listening to the camera, and a page covers exposures of seconds for telescopes and other very dark scenes.
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Finding a pin, a card that lies, and Frigate turned around
The camera works out what is soldered to each pad, an SD card can keep nothing and say nothing, and Frigate can be run the other way round so nothing connects to the camera at all.
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Watching from anywhere, and a camera that sleeps
Your own cloud view of a camera without a vendor, a camera that halves its power draw when nobody is watching, encrypted recordings, and swapping the SD card without stopping the stream.
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openipc.org, rebuilt
The site is now a static bundle in three languages and a small Go service. It also has a board catalogue, the OpenIPC Club, a firmware explorer and this news section.
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