You’re ready, power up the camera and go to the webpage for it. This thing was a stupid little guy to get in, but it wasn’t too hard – just be sure to push all the way or not put the door back on until you test it. The slot however is small and you’ll want to take a close look before inserting. It does have a push-to-snap-back mechanism, and don’t worry, as long as you have it in the slot, you’re okay.
I just didn’t want to have to make two attempts so I made sure to push the card in all the way. It took me about a minute of fiddling to ensure I had the SD Card in all the way. Now, this is maybe the only hard part of the entire process. Inserting the SD Card into the Yi Camera Outdoor The tiny door with the tiny screws, the requires the tiny screwdriver and takes the tiny SD Card is easy to get off. This is where our trusty #1 Philips screwdriver comes into play. Once you have the files on the SD Card, you’ll need to open a tiny door on the bottom, with tiny screws, to access the SD Card slot on the camera. For me it was as easy as dragging and dropping the files from the zip into the root of the SD Card.
Once you have the zip file you simply need to extract the files to the root of your fresh and empty SD Card. The file names may be different if there is a newer release, for this we’re using version 0.2.0
Make sure for the Yi Cam Outdoor 1080p you’re grabbing the file marked outdoor. There are others available, so be sure you’re grabbing the right one. Jump on over to the GitHub releases page for the Yi-Hack v4 site and grab the last release for the camera. Just be sure, of course, to select FAT32.
If you were using Windows 10, you’re in luck, Windows will either offer to format the card or you can right click on it in This PC and format it. We’re in luck, the SD Card is already formatted for FAT32 Since most cards come pre-formatted I just fired up GParted to double check the file system type. Again, I used my Linux desktop for this since I have a on-board SD Card reader that’s pretty fast.
Hacking the Yi Camera How to hack the Yi Outdoor Security CameraĪs in the last hack you’ll need to format the SD Card with a FAT32 partition. #1 Philips Screwdriver – The one you use to crack open your PC is too big, you need a smaller one!.Plus I had a two-pack laying around (and honestly, when finding the link I grabbed another because the stock was running low). Micro SD Card – 32 GB – While the documentation suggested a 16 GB or less card, I used this exact card with success.
YI Outdoor Security Camera, 1080P 2.4G Wireless IP Waterproof Night Vision.To do so, you have to apply the hack to the Yi Outdoor security camera.
Sure, they give you an app, they want to sell you video recording services, but would they back you up in court if you needed them to? And Why bother paying them when you can use software like MotionEye or Zoneminder to capture events and record yourself? Use the open source software people have put time into, take control of your destiny. You’re buying security cameras, stop sending the data back to their servers. Stop letting your devices talk to their servers! Best of all, you can enable privacy mode and keep the camera from phoning home to the Yi servers in China. This device is under $50, has night vision, and when you pair it up with Yi-Hack v4 you can add SSH, FTP, MQTT and even RTSP support (RTSP for a small donation to the software project). Now we are back again showing you how to hack the super cheap Yi Outdoor Security Camera. This time we hack the Yi Outdoor Security Camera with Yi Hack v4. Last time we showed you how to hack the cheap little (and cute) Wyze Cam v2 with a Micro SD Card, some time and freely available software from GitHub.