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title: The eye: a proper IPv6 camera
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pub_date: 2020-11-04
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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abstract:
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Looking for an IPv6 camera? Do not look any further.
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body:
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## TL;DR
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At ungleich we have created an IPv6 camera that brings its own IPv6
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connectivity. And a world wide reachable name. We are
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currently
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[crowdfunding](https://swiss-crowdfunder.com/campaigns/the-1000-eyes-project/)
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the production of the first 100 cameras.
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## A real IPv6 camera?
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What is the advantage of IPv6 again? Exactly, world wide reachability
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without any hacks or quirks.
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To support this, we have not only created a camera **that works within
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IPv6 (only) networks**. No, we took it one step further: The
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**IPv6-eye** is an IPv6 camera that **brings its own IPv6
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connectivity**.
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On top of all of this, we created the [1000ey.es](https://1000ey.es)
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project that even **gives a cool name** to every IPv6 camera in the world.
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## How to use the IPv6-eye
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It is very simple:
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* plugin a network cable with Internet uplink
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* connect it to power
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* It works!
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After that you can ...
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* Point the camera to what you want to show
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* Visit *yourname*.1000ey.es:8081 (you can find an example on
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[mountains-diesbach.1000ey.es](http://mountains-diesbach.1000ey.es:8081/)
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* Optionally configure it to connect to your existing wifi network
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## How does the IPv6-eye work?
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But what happens under the hood? The IPv6-eye is based on a similar
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concept as the [VIIRB](/u/products/viirb-ipv6-box). The IPv6-eye
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uses the [IPv6VPN](https://IPv6VPN.ch) to acquire IPv6
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connectivity. This works in IPv4 only, IPv6 only and dual stack networks.
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From that moment on, the camera is world wide reachable.
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## A name for every IPv6 camera out there
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However, people do not like to type IP addresses. Not IPv4, not
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IPv6. For this reason you can choose a name below the domain
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**1000ey.es** for your camera. This offer is for free on top of the
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actual hardware.
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## Fully Open Source
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2020-11-04 09:32:15 +00:00
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Like the VIIRB, the whole stack is fully Open Source. The
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operating system is OpenWRT. The VPN software is wireguard. And the
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video streaming server is based on mjpg-streamer or motion (still has
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to be decided for the final shipment). All files that are required to
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configure the IPv6-eye can be found in the [ungleich-tools
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repository](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools).
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## Crowdfunding the production
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As it is usual for the production process to start at a minimum size,
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we aim to crowdfund the first 100 units. If we exceed the minimum goal
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of 100 IPv6 eyes, we have added some extra goodies as an option.
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Checkout the [crowdfunding
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campaign](https://swiss-crowdfunder.com/campaigns/the-1000-eyes-project/)
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for more details.
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