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What changed in OpenIPC
Firmware features, new chips and changes to this site, written up every week or two. In English, Russian and Chinese.
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An open decoder for China's video standard, and an open ISP for Xiongmai
Cameras encode SVAC 3.0 now and we wrote the decoder for it, faster than the vendor's; the XM510 got an open image pipeline whose white balance beats the factory one; and five more chip makers arrived in the emulator.
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- A camera can now record in SVAC 3.0, and we wrote the decoder
- An open ISP for the XM510, and its white balance is better than the factory one
- Five new makers in the emulator
- The unified bootloader repository took in Ingenic
- The line drawn over the video became programmable
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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