title: The eye: a real IPv6 camera
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pub_date: 2020-11-04
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author: ungleich
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Looking for an IPv6 camera? Do not look any further.
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## TL;DR

At ungleich we have created an IPv6 camera that brings its own IPv6
connectivity. And 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 camera 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 *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 as the [VIIRB](/u/products/viirb-ipv6-box). The IPv6-eye
uses the [IPv6VPN](https://IPv6VPN.ch) to acquire IPv6
connectivity. This works in IPv4 only, IPv6 only and dual stack networks.

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 on top of the
actual hardware.

## Fully Open Source

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.