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Firmware with no camera on the desk, and OpenIPC takes on recorders

Our emulator now runs 69 machines across six vendors and boots their own neural networks, a new project brings OpenIPC to video recorders, and a camera can read your utility meters and find dust on its own sensor glass.

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  1. You can develop firmware without owning the camera
  2. A new project: vigil, for video recorders
  3. A camera can read your utility meters
  4. A camera can find the dust on its own sensor glass
  5. The kernel and the filesystem moved into one partition
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Earlier

  1. One bootloader for every chip, and footage you can grade

    Every U-Boot moved into one repository on top of mainline, a camera can now shoot log footage with per-frame metadata and timecode, and a Chrome HDR regression we found has been fixed by Google.

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  2. Cameras that see, and stay sharp while they turn

    YOLOv8 runs on the NPU of the GK7205V5x0 with the models in flash and no setup, a pan/tilt camera follows a person and stays sharp through the move, and anti-flicker stops guessing and tests the light.

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  3. A camera with no speaker plays tunes, and shares itself by link

    The IR-cut filter's coil becomes a buzzer that plays Nokia ringtones, Wi-Fi is set up by showing the camera a QR code, and a camera can be shown to anyone by a link.

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  4. Focusing by ear, and exposures measured in seconds

    GK7201V200 is supported, a motorised lens can be set from a ladder by listening to the camera, and a page covers exposures of seconds for telescopes and other very dark scenes.

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  5. Finding a pin, a card that lies, and Frigate turned around

    The camera works out what is soldered to each pad, an SD card can keep nothing and say nothing, and Frigate can be run the other way round so nothing connects to the camera at all.

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  6. Watching from anywhere, and a camera that sleeps

    Your own cloud view of a camera without a vendor, a camera that halves its power draw when nobody is watching, encrypted recordings, and swapping the SD card without stopping the stream.

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  7. openipc.org, rebuilt

    The site is now a static bundle in three languages and a small Go service. It also has a board catalogue, the OpenIPC Club, a firmware explorer and this news section.

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