Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit
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HN comment orderI must say, out of all the things to happen on a Thursday night I wouldn't have expected to read an article where someone referenced my own code that I wrote when I was 15. (5 years ago now... time flies) Here's the file I presumed he looked at; https://github.com/nvella/sdvr/blob/master/pk.c I was trying to reverse-engineer my parent's network CCTV DVR so I could hopefully integrate it with Home Assistant - as far as I'm aware the sluggish smartphone apps are…
Love these blogs where someone casually demonstrates skills in roughly 11 different areas (from Soldering, C++ plugin writing to clear blog writing) all coming together to accomplish something.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 678
- Total comments
- 123
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-16 | Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit | thrtythreeforty | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-05-17 | Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit | chmaynard | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-08 | Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit: Neolink a RTSP client proxy in Rust | wilsonfiifi | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-07-16 | Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profitFirst breakout · Best thread | wilsonfiifi | 479 | 89 |
| 2022-10-05 | Hacking Reolink cameras for fun and profit (2020)Latest 20+ point return | walterbell | 192 | 34 |