This was originally posted here, but I'm keeping a local copy for self-reliance and preservation: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/my-attempt-at-cli-based-onboarding-of-new-clients-with-auto-accepting-of-folders/24632/1

I know this has been done a million times, but I got it working for 2 test clients and I wanted to share as it has taken me some effort to get this all in 1 place. Maybe this isn’t that applicable, but for me it is. My environment has the following:

1. About 30 linux VM’s and clients
2. One “Primary” syncthing device, which is my introducer. We need that device’s ID, and the ability to ssh into it.
   1. Device ID stylized as AAAAAAA-BBBBBBB-CCCCCCC-DDDDDDD-EEEEEEE-FFFFFFF-GGGGGGG-HHHHHHH, make sure to replace
   2. Introducer hostname stylized by INTRODUCER-HOSTNAME, make sure to replace
   3. If you use an alt port, change it from 22
3. Optionally, a list of shares we want everyone in the group to have; you can also enumerate them for automatic adding, my examples are below:
   1. ~/.dotfiles called .dotfiles
   2. ~/.scripts called .scripts

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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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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:

So, baby was born, meaning not much time for hacking. Hooray though! Lucas Alexander Gullo, 9/8/2014, 6 lb 9 oz, 19 inches. Hooray!

I haven't had a ton of time to work on things, but there is some progress. Motorola got back to me, though not completely. They've given me a link to a repo with their modified cambozola, which is here: https://github.com/nikhilvs/cambozola-bms I'm still waiting on the source for mjpeg-streamer, and some guidance on the parameters to make the romfs image. I contacted gpl-violations.org and they are also trying to press on the fact that the GPL should have been included since it has embedded linux

I did something kind of interesting hardware wise though. Theory is, wouldn't it be neat to be able to move the camera, say if wife wants to monitor him napping downstairs for a while? So I figured out a way to provide stop-gap portable power for the monitor, so it can be moved around. Best yet, I did it without actually modifying what comes in the box, it all taps onto the exterior. Take a look:

Basically, I got a high current portable USB battery which charges off a micro USB, then made a converter for the power brick it comes with to go to micro USB, and then built a USB to barrel plug cable. Here's my parts list:

• Intocircuit Power Castle 11200mAh Heavy Duty 5V 2A/1A Dual USB Ports External Battery Pack Charger
• CABLE USB-A TO MICRO USB-B 0.5M
• CONN JACK 1.32MM X 3.6MM
• Size H Coaxial DC Power Plug (2-Pack)

Pretty simple solder job, just cut the USB cable in half and strip the wires, bam. I've only tested it briefly, but in about 5 hours on the battery it dropped from 100%->88% so I imagine it'll run for a VERY long time.

Hopefully I'll get to dig through the source a bit more in upcoming weeks, but feel free to use these findings in your own hacking.

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• Improving the Motorola Blink Baby Monitor/Camera
• Improving the Motorola Blink Baby Monitor/Camera (Part 2)
• Improving the Motorola Blink Baby Monitor/Camera (Part 4)
• Improving the Motorola Blink Baby Monitor/Camera (Part 5)