Yi 1080p Home - Not recording

[lenisko]

Describe the bug
Camera is not recording events. Tried with both disabled/enabled cloud (though I prefer disabled). Moved from 0.4.0d where I couldn't get it working as well.

To Reproduce

Config:
Disable Cloud: ON
Recording without Cloud: ON
RTSP: ON
NTPD: ON
NTP Server: pool.ntp.org
Swap File: ON

Settings:
Switch on/off the camera: ON
Save video when a motion is detected: ON
Detection sensitivity: Medium
Status led: OFF
IR led: OFF

Expected behaviour
Recording saved to microSD card

Set Up Details (please complete the following information):
Firmware Version | 9.3.8e
Base Version | 2.1.0.0E_201809191630
Hardware ID | 48US

# ps aux
PID   USER     TIME  COMMAND
    1 root      0:00 init
    2 root      0:00 [kthreadd]
    3 root      0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 root      0:00 [kworker/0:0]
    5 root      0:00 [kworker/u:0]
    6 root      0:00 [khelper]
    7 root      0:00 [kworker/u:1]
   88 root      0:00 [sync_supers]
   90 root      0:00 [bdi-default]
   91 root      0:00 [kintegrityd]
   93 root      0:00 [kblockd]
  103 root      0:00 [khubd]
  105 root      0:00 [kusbotg]
  199 root      0:00 [kswapd0]
  251 root      0:00 [fsnotify_mark]
  264 root      0:00 [crypto]
  316 root      0:00 [romblock0]
  319 root      0:00 [mtdblock0]
  324 root      0:00 [romblock1]
  327 root      0:00 [mtdblock1]
  332 root      0:00 [romblock2]
  335 root      0:00 [mtdblock2]
  340 root      0:00 [romblock3]
  343 root      0:00 [mtdblock3]
  348 root      0:00 [romblock4]
  351 root      0:00 [mtdblock4]
  356 root      0:00 [romblock5]
  359 root      0:00 [mtdblock5]
  364 root      0:00 [romblock6]
  367 root      0:00 [mtdblock6]
  372 root      0:00 [romblock7]
  375 root      0:00 [mtdblock7]
  398 root      0:00 [cfinteractive]
  403 root      0:00 [kworker/0:1]
  404 root      0:00 [kworker/u:2]
  412 root      0:00 [deferwq]
  413 root      0:00 [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
  427 root      0:00 udevd --daemon
  483 root      0:00 udevd --daemon
  485 root      0:00 udevd --daemon
  511 root      0:00 [mmcqd/1]
  681 root      0:00 [jffs2_gcd_mtd5]
  717 root      0:00 [flush-31:2]
  718 root      0:00 [flush-179:0]
  777 root      0:01 [RtmpTimerTask]
  778 root      0:01 [RtmpMlmeTask]
  779 root      0:00 [RtmpCmdQTask]
  780 root      0:00 [RtmpWscTask]
  783 root      0:00 ./log_server
  951 root      0:00 [hidog]
 1438 root      0:01 ./dispatch
 1451 root      0:43 ./rmm
 1501 root      0:00 ./cloud
 1517 root      0:00 httpd -p 8080 -h /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/www/ -c /tmp/httpd.conf
 1532 root      0:00 dropbear -R -B
 1558 root      0:01 rRTSPServer -r high -a no -p 554 -u -w
 1568 root      0:01 h264grabber -r high -m yi_home_1080p -f
 1573 root      0:00 {wd_rtsp.sh} /bin/sh /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/script/wd_rtsp.sh
 1609 root      0:00 /home/base/tools/wpa_supplicant -c/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf -g/var/run/wpa_supplicant-global -iwlan0 -B
 1617 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -c /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
 1662 root      0:00 ntpd -p pool.ntp.org
 1796 root      0:00 /sbin/udhcpc -i wlan0 -b -s /home/app/script/default.script -x hostname:two
 2126 root      0:00 dropbear -R -B
 2212 root      0:00 -sh
 2219 root      0:00 crond -c /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/etc/crontabs
 2220 root      0:00 /bin/login --
 2222 root      0:00 [flush-mtd-unmap]
 2514 root      0:00 sleep 10
 2517 root      0:00 ps aux

/home/yi-hack-v5 # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 1.3M      1.2M     72.0K  94% /
tmpfs                    15.0M      4.0K     15.0M   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock5           12.7M      9.2M      3.4M  73% /home
tmpfs                    16.0M      1.6M     14.4M  10% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1           14.7G    173.4M     14.5G   1% /tmp/sd
/dev/mmcblk0p1           14.7G    173.4M     14.5G   1% /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/www/record

/home/yi-hack-v5 # free -mh
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:             30          15           2           0          12           0
-/+ buffers/cache:           15          14
Swap:            63           0          63

[alienatedsec]

The latest version is 0.4.0 and it records correctly without cloud if all conditions are met. Please don't use those pre-releases prior to 0.4.0 anymore.

[raleighlittles]

@lenisko I have the same camera as you. Can you explain exactly how you got the firmware installed? The instructions on the README aren't really helpful.

I have:

• Yi 1080p Home camera (S/N starts with 48US)
• 32 GB microSD card, FAT32 formatted
• A download of yi_home_1080p_0.4.0.tgz

Would I just copy these files to the root directory of the microSD card?

[lenisko]

@raleighlittles

You need version 0.3.8 as a minimum to load this release - you can find out more here and #267 and #279

Go to 0.3.8 and flash baseline firmware files first, then update to 0.4.0. I still haven't checked whatever recording works on 0.4.0 though.

[alienatedsec]

Would I just copy these files to the root directory of the microSD card?

@raleighlittles
I would start by reading the release notes if something is not clear. Then, its worth noting that you need the baseline version 0.3.8 prior to installing any later versions. Finally, any versions after 0.3.8 can be loaded from the WebUI.

1. Install 0.3.8 by extracting all files - rootfs_xx and home_xx and the yi-hack-v5 folder from the archive to a root of the FAT32 SD Card - this will load the baseload correctly - insert it into the camera and boot up.
2. After flashing and normal operation, you may need to format the SD Card in the YI app - this will make sure your recording is working fine, but it will wipe your yi-hack-v5 folder.
3. After formatting, it will reboot the camera without a hack folder on your SD but will leave Telnet and FTP enabled if the baseload was loaded correctly. You could either use it to transfer the yi-hack-v5 folder or remove the SD card and transfer the folder using your PC.
4. You can load a pre-release or the latest release using WebUI - 0.4.0 is the latest as of today.
5. The below is what is in the root directory of my SD card.
   

[lenisko]

@alienatedsec Thanks for great go-through! I had to format microSD using application not recording works.

Was actually going to ask if it is possible to setup whole camera without touching cloud thing like this on allwinner-v2 but as I can see some bits are still missing.

[alienatedsec]

@lenisko please try #193

Create a file in /tmp/sd/recover/configure_wifi.cfg

The format needs to be as follows:

wifi_ssid=[your_wifi_essid]
wifi_psk=[your_wifi_password]

Reboot

[lenisko]

It won't work without initial setup of camera in yi-app ?

Tried on fresh camera, and it's blinking blue

[alienatedsec]

Has it created an mtdblock2_xxxxxx.bin on your SD?

[alienatedsec]

@lenisko I just found a bug, so need to address it, but if you have a file then we can recover your previous settings if needed.

[lenisko]

@alienatedsec Yes I saw this file 👍 I don't have any settings in there nor care about previous ones. Unless, they are required to get WiFi and recording working :) I don't plan to use this little with Cloud features.

[alienatedsec]

@lenisko

1. Replace the content of system.sh and configure_wifi.sh in /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/script/ folder - those were amended by this commit c82ff43
2. Make a copy of and rename your file to mtdblock2_recover.bin
3. Move it to /tmp/sd/recover folder
4. Reboot
5. The new script will recover your partition and rename to mtdblock2_recover_done.bin

I need to investigate the previous process.

The format needs to be as follows:

wifi_ssid=[your_wifi_essid]
wifi_psk=[your_wifi_password]

I am about to find out which encoding needs to be used as the manual process is not formatting the partition content correctly :)

[lenisko]

@alienatedsec dd dump got renamed to mtdblock2_recover_done.bin and camera spoke "waiting to connect".

Leaving this one in current state so I will wait for your solution to test cloud-less setup.

Big thanks for your time!

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[lenisko]

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