alienatedsec/yi-hack-v5 0.4.1

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Breaking changes !!!

• There is a new baseline 0.4.1, so you need to prepare your SD card for it - follow #267 and this guidance #248
• The camera web page is no longer under port 8080 but back to default port 80 - access your camera web page using its IP only. Those with proxy environments or Home Assistant integrations must amend their settings.
• The new baseline is needed to fix OTA upgrade #326 - cameras on earlier versions cannot upgrade from the WebUi as there is an additional baseline check - it refers to 0.4.1 for the latest release - 23a96a5 - copy the release file onto your SD card and change its name as per the guidance in #248
• Future non-baseline upgrades will not require a FAT32 SD card preparation

What's Changed (Generated by GitHub, high-level)

• @roleoroleo testing merge for pre-release by @alienatedsec in #289
• Merging tested commits by @alienatedsec in #299
• Merging onto pre-release by @alienatedsec in #330
• [~] Onvif fixes by @alienatedsec in #331
• fix: WARNING in HA => MQTT entity name starts with the device name in… by @Minims in #327
• fix: mqtt disconnecting immediately after boot by @fidesachates in #328
• Pre release 0.4.1x by @alienatedsec in #341
• Improve MQTT by @Minims in #349
• Pre release 0.4.1x merge to master by @alienatedsec in #355

What's Changed (in detail)

Sorry for the below mess - I will try to be consistent with the next releases

• Restore feature to edit config files
• Add a flag to decrease binary size
• Remove old patch
• Decrease RTP packet length
• Improve sync/async read
• Update gitignore
• New features: disable, force low and already running
• Remove unused settings from config files
• Add options to disable snapshot and force low res
• Remove unused mqtt options
• Fix and improve h264grabber
• Fix system.conf parameters
• Remove ai_human_detection and restore baby_crying
• Wi-Fi Recovery Partition - Instructions in progress
• Change size of FIFO queues
• Restore audio stream ch0_2.h264
• Add native API to take low-res snapshot
• Remove option: watermark for onvif snapshot
• Change label for "Force low res snapshot"
• Improve RTSP server
• Minor fixes
• Remove unused options when empty password
• Add mqttv4 to watchdog
• Add "if supported" in camera settings page
• Add support for native time osd
• [Change] launch.sh optimised to kill gently
• [Change] Tuning launch.sh
• [New] Compile specific module - thanks @thelittlefireman
• wpa_supplicant upgrade to v2.10 - this was an attempt to prevent boot loop issues experienced with certain Wi-Fi configurations (e.g., multiple APs with the same SSID) or any modern Wi-Fi networks - for example, a mixed mode WPA/WPA2 is subject to be removed in the future wpa_supplicant releases
• Initial support for WPA3-Personal - Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE)
• Support to encrypt your Wi-Fi password with wpa_passphrase
• Fixing cloudAPI workflow for CN-based cameras
• Removed duplicate configs
• Merging @roleoroleo 's work onto pre-release in #330 and #331 - too many changes to list them all here
• fix: WARNING in HA => MQTT entity name starts with the device name in… by @Minims in #327
• fix: mqtt disconnecting immediately after boot by @fidesachates in #328
• Fix for #334 - reduced the image size by compressing multiple large files in the home partition
• Fix for #336 - added missing config thanks @lebestnoob
• Fix for yi_home and yi_dome - the wpa_supplicant upgrade in the baseline image was prevented by the YI upgrade of an older file
• Recovered lost system.sh upgrades and other functions
• Cleared the libs folder on the home partition - attempt to fix #312 and #291
• The Busybox was upgraded to 1.36.1 and its size was reduced to address #312
• Moved some tools from rootfs to /tmp/sd/yi-hack-v5/.../[s]bin folders using busybox_tools submodule - again to address #312
• Fixed Curl SSL crypto library
• Fixed symlink to VI #346
• Fixed the MQTT issue #333
• Fixed no watermark in streams #336 - thanks @Minims
• Amended config reading - seems to work quicker - thanks @Minims
• Added file versioning - so that we can track changes without upgrading the baseline
• Improve MQTT by @Minims in #349 - please test if working as intended
• Fixed WiFi scan page
• Improved the wpa_supplicant upgrade logic
• Reduced busybox_tools size on the SD

What is still not working

• Pure WPA3 networks - recommending WiFi's with WPA2 - if you know that your camera worked with WPA3, please let me know in the release discussion so we can investigate further. I managed to run on a mixed WPA2/WPA3, and it may not be the case for others.
• Some MQTT and HA-related settings - e.g., IR seems not to be responding - need to be reviewed as mentioned by @roleoroleo in #349 (comment)

New Contributors

• @Minims made their first contribution in #327
• @fidesachates made their first contribution in #328

Project Maintainers

@roleoroleo made so many contributions - thanks for the additional effort

Full Changelog: 0.4.0...0.4.1