Just to update. I think I may have found the device that I am inclined to try after some searching. The Kerui alarm system which seem to have quite many reviews on the internet with some Top 10 or Top 20 best wireless alarm system sites which include the Kerui on their pages. The official Kerui store is on Aliexpress which I happen to use before, so it is likely that I'll give the Kerui a try.

There is an option to add smoke/gas detector and also a video camera onto the basic package of motion detectors, so in way it adds some of the functionality of the Xiaomi Dafang.

The link here : https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Su....3ab75fa6aPAetU

dafang is good for monitoring but not good as a security cam
its too slow to send out notification.
as for cloud storage - there is practically no other company that will allow you to store videos on their server without paying some fees
xiaomi one works at first and now it doesnt. only way is to view and snap photos or record video manually once you receive notifications
or hope that the motion detect recorded something.

This post has been edited by idoblu: Apr 20 2018, 08:33 AM

Agreed. I somehow managed to view my very first alert video yesterday evening. Thought everything is back to "normal" but it seemed that it was wishful thinking in the end. None of the later alert videos worked. Back to usual i guess.

On your last comment, even if motion detect recorded video and sends you an alert on this, under the current situation, it seems we have no way to access it. Am i right? Or is there some other ways we can try?

can view whats recorded in your card
go to the page with the live view. Fourth button with Play icon. You can play back from previous days and current, swipe thru
its called Look Back i think

This post has been edited by idoblu: Apr 20 2018, 09:09 AM

new firmware version 5.5.1.306.
anyone tested so far? does it solve the motion alert problem?

ok just got it connected

This post has been edited by CyborgR: Apr 25 2018, 05:11 PM

Updated my camera. Finally fixed the cloud upload motion alarm.

Yup. Motion alert videos finally able to download but a bit of hit n miss. Some times need to retry again only can work. Btw, how does the alarm interval works?

has anyone try adding Dafang using Singapore server?

I got two dafangs - only one can download motion detected videos...the other one still cannot move from 0% like last time. Both are latest firmware

you managed to connect to Singapore server?
mine is downloading well now since the firmware update. still on china server.

This post has been edited by WIS9000: Apr 27 2018, 02:27 PM

I didn’t try. You got how many dafang? All working?

Only one. Just tested and i was working. Sporadically i would say.

Mine 3 working

Nice new firmware let you set upto 4 points of the auto cruise, no longer limited to 360 cruise which end up seeing walls like previous if you put it near a wall or something

cool worth trying.

R u on Singpore server? I tried logging into s'pore but do not see the da fang camera listed. They only show the cube (xiao fang) model.

Apparently now there's custom firmware for XiaoMi Dafang, and it has RTSP-server!
https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafa...er/hacks/faq.md

Features it has:
- Full working RTSP with H264/MJPEG. Based on https://github.com/mpromonet/v4l2rtspserver
- SSH-Server(dropbear) with username: root password: ismart12
- FTP-Server(bftpd) with username: root password: ismart12
- Webserver(boa)
- Image-Snap(Get Jpeg Image)
- Horizontal/vertical motor rotation / move to center
- Turn on/off blue/yellow/IR LEDs/IR-Cut
- Local h264 recording
- Audio recording/playing
- Curl
- MQTT
- Anything other that you can compile yourself. There is a toolchain avaible.



This post has been edited by bergstein: Apr 30 2018, 04:38 PM

Always fail to connect camera ever since the latest firmware upgrade. Anyone has the same issue?

Hi, with this custom firmware
Any option to send pictures/video to ftp server when motion is detected?
Instead of just relying on the mihome app?

I actually yet to try it, but from what I read yes it is possible however you might need how to script (linux bash scripting) to do it.
And with this custom firmware it's running on its own stuff, so it will not use any Mi service (server, app, etc), all done via scripting or their come-by-default web interface.
If you know bash scripting this firmware basically allow you to do anything you want.