Description

French ISP Free was providing a wifi webcam which would integrate with their alarm offering but could only be used with one version of their fiber modem.

I've switch to a new generation of modem and the alarm offering is gone but I still own the webcam which is not usable anymore.

Goals

Try to get access to the webcam feed (either reprovision it or access its video feed) to integrate it on Home Assistant.

Resources

Looking for hackers with the skills:

freebox webcam home-assistant

This project is part of:

Hack Week 25

Activity

  • 28 days ago: fcrozat started this project.
  • about 1 month ago: fcrozat added keyword "freebox" to this project.
  • about 1 month ago: fcrozat added keyword "webcam" to this project.
  • about 1 month ago: fcrozat added keyword "home-assistant" to this project.
  • about 1 month ago: fcrozat originated this project.

  • Comments

    • fcrozat
      2 days ago by fcrozat | Reply

      Did a lot of research on this webcam. This is a Sercomm RC8310 with a modified firmware from the ISP to handle initial SSID connection and authentication.

      Unfortunately, once the camera is associated, the password to access all its data is only accessible from an API from fiber modem but the api is apparently not available anymore on more recent version of the fiber modem from the ISP.

      The camera is currently working fine, properly connected to my Wifi network, its webserver is responding but I can't do anything with it without the password and I couldn't either reset it to change its password.

      I've opened a ticket at the ISP to get access to the api on recent modem, https://dev.freebox.fr/bugs/task/40697

      I'll close this project as complete (ie failed) for now

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