After all this time...why am I still working on this? The cameras are dead, Motorola shut down the monitoreverywhere service, so the cameras are dead! You can't register them, or join to cameras remotely, right?

Well, they still work on the LAN, so if they're already on the wifi, you can use them as little RTSP streams. The problem is...I want to change my SSID's, and there's no way to rejoin to wifi without the app connecting with the (now offline) monitoreverywhere service.

Enter crazy old Joe. I had a Titanium Backup of the apk and my config from an android device I don't even have anymore. I was able to extract this and decompile it to learn how the app handles registration, then emulate that. First, from previous research, when you factory reset a camera it broadcasts a "Camera-######" SSID when you can connect to as it's open. You'll get a 192.168.2.# address, and the camera will be "192.168.2.1". From there, you can start performing operations on the camera, for example, If you go here in a web browser: http://192.168.2.1/?action=command&command=enable_telnet You will then be able to telnet to the camera.

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This was originally posted Here but I'm cross-posting it to my site for preservation and self-reliance.

I've been experimenting with user and account management solutions for my home lab, and I was looking for something that could manage posix users and web users. I wanted something with group management and OU hierarchies that sort of follow what you would use in Active Directory. I found a lot of issues with some of the more well recommended solutions out there:

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This was originally posted to reddit Here but I am archiving the post here for posterity and self-reliance.

A long time ago we had IRC integrated into our server so offline people could chat, but with IRC becoming less used, we wanted to switch to something Discord-like which could enable voice chat. My preference is for self-hosted, open-source software where I control the data and service, so my target platform was Mumble. The result is pretty great; I have a easy mumble web client users can hang out in and talk with the server when they're offline, I have a phone app which receives notifications and does text to speech so with my headset I can be notified if a new user joins or if someone dies (this is all configurable). Users can choose to voice chat as well to collab on projects.

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So I took the camera apart and took a high-res picture of the PCB. The wifi sub-board is soldered on so I won't remove it yet to expose the ARM CPU. That being said, maybe there's a clue on here for how to mount and write to the flash memory:

I screwed up.

I finally did it, I figured out the commands to do a custom firmware, and I tried to flash it...now the camera is UNRESPONSIVE. It boots, but no network, the LED is on, can't talk to it, nada. I'm working on my backout plan now :) Hey, that's the price of hacking. Nevertheless, I've learned a TON which is worth sharing.

Below is the set of commands I used to generate my custom firmware. The original firmware is a tar.gz, which contains conprog.bin and rootfs.bin.gz, then rootfs.bin.gz unpacks into rootfs.bin which can be mounted with: