blog post about the IPv6 eye

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+title: The eye: a real IPv6 camera
+---
+pub_date: 2020-11-04
+---
+author: ungleich
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+twitter_handle: ungleich
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+_hidden: no
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+_discoverable: yes
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+abstract:
+Looking for an IPv6 camera? Do not look any further.
+---
+body:
+
+## TL;DR
+
+At ungleich we have created an IPv6 camera that brings its own IPv6
+connectivity and you can assign it a world wide reachable name. We are
+currently
+[crowdfunding](https://swiss-crowdfunder.com/campaigns/the-1000-eyes-project/)
+the production of the first 100 cameras.
+
+## A real IPv6 camera?
+
+What is the advantage of IPv6 again? Exactly, world wide reachability
+without any hacks or quirks.
+
+To support this, we have not only created a camera **that works within
+IPv6 (only) networks**. No, we took it one step further: The
+**IPv6-eye** is an IPv6 camare that **brings its own IPv6
+connectivity**.
+
+On top of all of this, we created the [1000ey.es](https://1000ey.es)
+project that even **gives a cool name** to every IPv6 camera in the world.
+
+## How to use the IPv6-eye
+
+It is very simple:
+
+* plugin a network cable with Internet uplink
+* connect it to power
+* It works!
+
+After that you can ...
+
+* Point the camera to what you want to show
+* Visit http://<yourname>.1000ey.es:8081 (you can find an example on
+  [mountains-diesbach.1000ey.es](http://mountains-diesbach.1000ey.es:8081/)
+* Optionally configure it to connect to your existing wifi network
+
+## How does the IPv6-eye work?
+
+But what happens under the hood? The IPv6-eye is based on a similar
+concept to the [VIIRB](/u/products/viirb-ipv6-box). The IPv6-eye
+uses the [IPv6VPN](https://IPv6VPN.ch) to acquire IPv6 connectivity.
+
+From that moment on, the camera is world wide reachable.
+
+## A name for every IPv6 camera out there
+
+However, people do not like to type IP addresses. Not IPv4, not
+IPv6. For this reason you can choose a name below the domain
+**1000ey.es** for your camera. This offer is for free, also for any
+other IPv6 camera that you want to give a name.
+
+## Fully Open Source
+
+Again like the VIIRB, the whole stack is fully Open Source. The
+operating system is OpenWRT, the VPN software is wireguard and the
+video streaming server is based on mjpg-streamer or motion (still has
+to be decided for the final shipment). All files that are required to
+configure the IPv6-eye can be found in the [ungleich-tools
+repository](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools).
+
+## Crowdfunding the production
+
+As it is usual for the production process to start at a minimum size,
+we aim to crowdfund the first 100 units. If we exceed the minimum goal
+of 100 IPv6 eyes, we have added some extra goodies as an option.
+
+Checkout the [crowdfunding
+campaign](https://swiss-crowdfunder.com/campaigns/the-1000-eyes-project/)
+for more details.