Hello community,
Sorry, I will write in english, I'm not German speaker (be happy, I don't write in French :-D). But thanks to Google Translate, I have found a lot of useful information in this forum for my project, and it appears to be normal to give back what I have achieve.
I have also a Steinel L620 SC. After having made a comparative, this camera appears to be the best quality hardware solution for a Light+Camera (other option are EZVIZ LC3, Lutec Elara, other chinese hardware). But, for me, a Cloud Camera is not an option, even if it is simpler to use, I prefer to avoid backdoor to my home network. So I have past the last weeks to try to install an opensource IPC firmware to my L620 : https://openipc.org
For your information by investigating the firmware, I found that Steinel Camera are base on the XoingMai solution, a Chinese wide cloud camera solution provider. And there is some known vulnerabilities to these cameras if you don't update it. For more detail : https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/10/10/vulnerable-xiongmai-cameras/
My project is still a work in progress, but today I have a working L620 SC camera with openipc and all his nice functionalities (RTSP, Onvif, Image, SSH, Webinterface, Motion detection,...).
For the moment, we still need to open (and break a plastic part then repair it !) the camera to do this migration. Of course, don't expect support from Steinel after that.
What is working :
- OpenIPC installation using SD Card and serial connection
- Enabling Sensor (HD)
- Enabling Wifi Card
- Configuration of light management extension card (PIR detector, Lux detector, Light management, Alarm Management) by command line
What have to be done :
- Manage Led for status information
- Manage Audio (Mic and Speaker)
- Manage PIR detector to start recording, and expose PIR detector status to a Domotic Standards
- Expose Configuration of Light Management extention card to Domotic Standards
So, if you are interesting by participating to this project, here are the GitHub :
https://github.com/dirandad/lightcamera-openipc/blob/main/README.md
This link is all what I provide, don't expect more support. There is a telegram channel to get support for OpenIPC. But you will need to have some prerequisite technical skills.
If you go there, don't forget that you will :
- Need some Embedded Linux skills, you can definitively loss your Camera if you make any error.
- Dismount (and break then repair) your Camera
- Loss Any Steinel Support (and Warranty)
- need to manage by yourself a secured remote access to the camera. The Steinel App won't be usable, of course.
- Start a really Geek and interesting project
The L600 camera is really close to the L620 (HI3518EV200 SoC vs HI3518EV300 SoC), so it should be possible to adapt the procedure to this Camera.
Lutec Elara is the same SoC than L620.
Enjoy.
@el_malto, @passuff , hope your are still on this forum. Do you still have your camera, I will be really interesting to get the exact reference of the SSOP-20 Chip that is the on Light extension card. I was not able to read it on the picture you provide.
@joedi, on my camera I was not able to run the xm_startup.sh script on the original firmware. How to you format your SD Card to do this ? (FAT16, FAT32, using what platform (Windows, linux,..) ?
