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Using the EZVIZ S6 as a wifi webcam

I bought a cheap EZVIZ S6 "action cam" and wanted to use it as a recorded and/or livestreaming PoV cam.
Ideally, it would be available as a video capture device without an sd card and also a native Linux video device.

So I did it. Here's how you can do it:

Make sure you have a working wifi card and an ethernet connection (because your wifi card will have to connect to the camera, so you need to use ethernet for internet).

Download motion

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#!/bin/bash
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=exposure_auto=1
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=white_balance_temperature_auto=0
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=exposure_absolute=900
#v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=contrast=26
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=white_balance_temperature=4900

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Best practices for maintaining & running substrate-based (para)chain (wip)

• Ensure all of your systems are kept up-to-date, especially with security updates.
• Ensure you can fully bootstrap a new system from scratch easily if needed.
• Upload archive chain backups frequently. Potentially make these available to the community down the road.
• Have database recovery methods in place.
• Use infrastructure as code. Never modify anything manually on your servers.
• Ensure you have a monitoring stack set up WITH alerts (alertmanager/grafana alerts/bots etc).
• Keep alerts actionable, otherwise they become noise.
• If a service crashes, make sure it automatically restarts in some way (via systemd or kubernetes).

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#!/bin/bash

# Print the usage of the script if the SERVER_URL or ADMIN_TOKEN arguments are not provided
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 SERVER_URL ADMIN_TOKEN"
  exit 1
fi

# Get the SERVER_URL and ADMIN_TOKEN from the command line arguments
SERVER_URL="$1"