These are brilliant and use to keep eye on my home when I go traveling.
Original Xiaomi Xiaoyi Ants Night Vision 720P Smart Wireless Webcam Security IP Camera
The newest version about the XiaoMi XiaoYi Ants Night Vision Camera is coming.
You'll never worry about the evening of sight.
Automatically start Smart security model when you leave home
You can view the situation on your phone: whether doors windows are closed.
Once something unusual or dangerous, it immediately begins recording and timely alarm to notify you when you are not in.

Observe and photograph and video whenever necessary
You won’t miss every moment of the baby's growth.
It can remote capture when your baby successful complete the blocks tower, or when you are overtime at night, you can croon a lullaby for him hum to sleep.
Turn on the phone and get together with him immediately!

4X digital zoom, every detail are viewed on the screen
You can double-click to 4x zoom to view the accident caused by your lovely pet.
Find it is sleeping in the sofa or chew your shoes in the corner,shout it immediately stop the destruction by voice function.

Two-way voice feature looks like you always with her
With this smart ant camera, you can spend important day with her.
110°wide-angle lens bring a sense of immersive screen, sing a birthday song to her.
It is no longer a problem even though you are far away from her.

Installation within 1 min
Connect the power supply;
Download Xiaomi smart home APP (also support the "small ant Camera" or "Xiaomi router" APP);
Automatically connect.
Shared Via The HUKD App For Android.
Top comments
y0rkiebar
22 Oct 1513#12
I've "tweaked" my camera and have :-
RTSP stream (working with VLC and my Synology NAS Surveillance Station)
Telnet access
FTP access
UK timezone with time set using NTP
Stopped all camera access to the Chinese servers (god knows what data is was sending)
Cron enabled (I run a NTP sync job every 5 minutes)
I've had it mount a NFS share on my NAS too.
Wifi settings include multiple Wifi networks so I can move it around and it will connect to whatever it finds.
Oh, blue Wifi light turned off for steath-mode too
IR lights working when it gets dark
So it's a great little device but it's a bit of a ballache to setup. Because I've disabled all the "phone home to China" stuff then the camera app can't contact the phone now. Other apps are available though which access generic RTSP cameras over a network and they work fine with the camera in it's current configuration.
I'm going to get another one and have Surveillance station monitor them for motion when I'm away.
AddictWeb
22 Oct 158#9
I have this and didnt have any problem getting it working. Turned it on, entered the wifi info into the app which automatically picks up the camera, and that was it.
I've installed some modified firmware to allow my to access the RSTP stream and correct the time. Only problem I still have it the blue LED I cant turn off so ive covered it with a bit of tape (its not the IR leds)
Nothing compares to this in terms of build quality and features for the price:
- 2 way audio
- Motion detected recording onto SD card
- Motion alerts to IOS and Android
- IR nightvision (great quality)
- Actively maintained firmware (hopefully resolving the few bugs there are)
- 720p
y0rkiebar
23 Oct 157#41
Yup, chmod!
Here's a screengrab of a putty session just now onto the cam showing the files I've removed execute permissions from
The command "chmod a-x cloud p2pserver watch_process" would remove execute permission from the three files (I've already done this).
Now, I've re-enabled execute permission on those files and started them. Lets look at the camera network connections
You can see outbound (from camera) connections to the following IP's
120.92.227.146
120.134.33.107
203.195.157.36
Let's do some digging.....
IP Location Results for 120.92.227.146
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
IP Location Results for 120.134.33.107
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
IP Location Results for 203.195.157.36
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
Mmmmm......
y0rkiebar
23 Oct 154#28
I have thought about it. When I get my next cam then I'll try and document the process from the ground up. My current setup has evolved over a few weeks and trying to document the steps now wouldn't be simple.
All comments (154)
mario999
22 Oct 15#1
Cheap camera, but has its limitations. Not possible to use third party apps with newest firmware. Can not turn off the leds. Can not change to UK time.
kypok
22 Oct 15#2
Good luck making it work absolute nightmare
kypok
22 Oct 15#3
1min installation whahaa :smiley:)))
CosmicAero
22 Oct 15#4
does it have a sensor so it turns on when someone walks in sight of the camera?
gavinlew
22 Oct 15#5
You can change the camera to use UK time, i got one working great here - only downside is its a pity the LEDs cant be turned off when placed in a window
dtokez to gavinlew
23 Oct 15#25
open it up and add a switch :smiley:
kypok
22 Oct 15#6
Can someone explain how they got this working mine still lying after two weeks
thespiderpig
22 Oct 15#7
Can this upload video footage to a local server or to the cloud?
tek-monkey
22 Oct 15#8
I need something I can get to stream externally to a server at my house which will do the recording, and can switch to motion detection in the evenings. Any chance with this do you know?
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Opening post
Original Xiaomi Xiaoyi Ants Night Vision 720P Smart Wireless Webcam Security IP Camera
The newest version about the XiaoMi XiaoYi Ants Night Vision Camera is coming.
You'll never worry about the evening of sight.
Automatically start Smart security model when you leave home
You can view the situation on your phone: whether doors windows are closed.
Once something unusual or dangerous, it immediately begins recording and timely alarm to notify you when you are not in.

Observe and photograph and video whenever necessary
You won’t miss every moment of the baby's growth.
It can remote capture when your baby successful complete the blocks tower, or when you are overtime at night, you can croon a lullaby for him hum to sleep.
Turn on the phone and get together with him immediately!

4X digital zoom, every detail are viewed on the screen
You can double-click to 4x zoom to view the accident caused by your lovely pet.
Find it is sleeping in the sofa or chew your shoes in the corner,shout it immediately stop the destruction by voice function.

Two-way voice feature looks like you always with her
With this smart ant camera, you can spend important day with her.
110°wide-angle lens bring a sense of immersive screen, sing a birthday song to her.
It is no longer a problem even though you are far away from her.

Installation within 1 min
Connect the power supply;
Download Xiaomi smart home APP (also support the "small ant Camera" or "Xiaomi router" APP);
Automatically connect.
Shared Via The HUKD App For Android.
Top comments
RTSP stream (working with VLC and my Synology NAS Surveillance Station)
Telnet access
FTP access
UK timezone with time set using NTP
Stopped all camera access to the Chinese servers (god knows what data is was sending)
Cron enabled (I run a NTP sync job every 5 minutes)
I've had it mount a NFS share on my NAS too.
Wifi settings include multiple Wifi networks so I can move it around and it will connect to whatever it finds.
Oh, blue Wifi light turned off for steath-mode too
IR lights working when it gets dark
So it's a great little device but it's a bit of a ballache to setup. Because I've disabled all the "phone home to China" stuff then the camera app can't contact the phone now. Other apps are available though which access generic RTSP cameras over a network and they work fine with the camera in it's current configuration.
I'm going to get another one and have Surveillance station monitor them for motion when I'm away.
I've installed some modified firmware to allow my to access the RSTP stream and correct the time. Only problem I still have it the blue LED I cant turn off so ive covered it with a bit of tape (its not the IR leds)
Links to firmware / camera dicussions:
http://robinhenniges.com/en/fix-xiaomi-xiaoyi-small-ant
https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/anyone-here-running-the-xiaomi-xiaoyi-yi-smart-wifi-cam.12177/
Nothing compares to this in terms of build quality and features for the price:
- 2 way audio
- Motion detected recording onto SD card
- Motion alerts to IOS and Android
- IR nightvision (great quality)
- Actively maintained firmware (hopefully resolving the few bugs there are)
- 720p
Here's a screengrab of a putty session just now onto the cam showing the files I've removed execute permissions from
The command "chmod a-x cloud p2pserver watch_process" would remove execute permission from the three files (I've already done this).
Now, I've re-enabled execute permission on those files and started them. Lets look at the camera network connections
You can see outbound (from camera) connections to the following IP's
120.92.227.146
120.134.33.107
203.195.157.36
Let's do some digging.....
IP Location Results for 120.92.227.146
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
IP Location Results for 120.134.33.107
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
IP Location Results for 203.195.157.36
==============
City: Beijing
Zip Code: 0
Region Code: 11
Region Name: Beijing Shi
Country Code: CN
Country Name: China
Mmmmm......
All comments (154)