Camera: NEOS conversion

Why? Because NEOS was abandoned by its owners - no reason why, simply terminated the service. Rather than simply consigning the device to landfill, I googled to find if it could be put to use. And hence discovered Thingino and Discord.

Basically, there are two methods:

• non-intrusive - should work, and there's various youtube videos out there to show how to do it
• intrusive - one needs to get inside the camera to be able to force it to re-initialise. Needed if the device becomes "bricked".

I followed one such video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFl2VkCLbM - sadly this didn't work, with the USB inserted and holding down reset while plugging in the power just didn't complete as per the instructions, seemed the device was destined for landfill. However, I was advised to use Thingino's cloner app to "unbrick" the cam. Again, there's a video for this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhCVbCq70W4

However, I was unsure about configuring Cloner - it seemed to me there was a file missing from the cloner app. When the app runs, it fires a gui to configure Cloner. The video instructs what to fill in, but is a little unclear about what to set for "Policy" - what was filled in by default did not exist. However, once informed in the Discord channel "Thingino Support", thread "Cloner assistance request" - https://discord.com/channels/1086012062649565286/1322962459350401065/1323002133292912732 - that it should be set to the full path of the binary that cloner will load into the cam, I set the attribute to point to one of the "thingino-wyze" bin files extracted from the wyze-cam2.zip downloaded as per the first video. All went well except there was no video feed, so as per the video I used the other one - thingino-wyze_2_jx23.bin. After that I had a fully-functioning web cam.

Not having an Android phone, I looked for a suitable app for an iphone - the tinycam app for IOS is nothing like the Android one, I found one called NX-V, though haven't done much with it yet. I've yet to be able to:

• have recordings only for when motion is detected
• have an alert sent to my phone when motion is detected
• access the cam from outside my home network (likely need to explore configuring the VPN capabilities the cam now has, and opening a port on the router).

If Thingino can do the above I won't even need a separate app.