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Basic information

The OpenIPC is an alternative firmware for IP cameras and a kind of umbrella for other projects that are components of our system.

The OpenIPC is a Linux operating system based on Buildroot/OpenWrt projects and targeting IP cameras with chipsets from different vendors, starting with Goke GK72xx, HiSilicon Hi35xx, SigmaStar SSC33x, and XiongmaiTech XM5xx.

Everyone is welcome and can use/contribute to the project in any way they find useful!

We would be grateful for the feedback and suggestions.

Developers

Name	Role	Participation
Dmitry Ilyin	co-founder and main participant of the OpenIPC project	ipctool, majestic, smolrtsp
Dmitry Ermakov	main participant	coupler, firmware, ipctool
Igor Zalatov	project founder and development coordinator	firmware
Maxim Chertov	co-founder of the OpenIPC project	mini
Paul Philippov	main participant	microbe-web, yaml-cli
Sergey Sharshunov	co-founder of the OpenIPC project

Official links

• OpenIPC on GitHub - GitHub organization, most projects are hosted here
• OpenIPC on OpenCollective - OpenCollective community
• OpenIPC on Docker Hub - Docker containers for building
• OpenIPC on Twitter - Our main news
• OpenIPC on YouTube - Our instructions and streams (in the plans)

Telegram chat groups

• OpenIPC (EN) - International channel to discuss the development of our project | *
• OpenIPC modding (RU) - general issues on modifying IPCam device firmware | *
• OpenIPC development (RU) - HiSilicon, XM porting in OpenWrt and programmer issues | *
• OpenIPC advice (RU) - problems, finding solutions, long conversations | *
• OpenIPC majestic (RU) - for Majestic streamer testers | *
• OpenIPC Iranian (IR) - special group for Iranian users / تیم OpenIPC برای کاربران ایرانی | *
• OpenIPC demo (EN/RU) - test bot with buttons, after connecting, give the "/menu" | *
• OpenIPC ExIPCam (RU) - ExIPCam program and hardware/software repairing devices | *
• OpenIPC updates (RU) - Firmware & Software updates information channel
• OpenIPC dev - Firmware & Software development channel

Team developments

Firmware

• openipc-2.1 - Firmware development and creation system based on Buildroot
• openipc-1.0 - Firmware development and creation system based on OpenWrt 15.05
• coupler - Seamless transition between video cameras firmware

Streamers

• majestic - Universal IPCam streamer
• mini - OpenSource Mini IP camera streamer

Tools

• ipctool - Tool (and library) for checking IP camera hardware
• yaml-cli - Tool for change setting in CLI
• glutinium - Additional OpenWRT packages

Windows software

• exipcam - Cool utility for repairing IPCam (For Windows, works in Linux via Wine)
• ipcam_dms - IPCam Device Management System (For Windows, works in Linux via Wine)