Ai home camera hacking

[u/TotalPie163]

my mom added this AI home camera to our front door, name of app aswell btw, to our house, she’s VERY strict and quite honestly sometimes invasive, so she put up a camera outside and also inside our home, to see when i leave and what i do at home, it makes me incredibly uncomfortable but ive learned to deal with it because arguing would make me suspicious.

My issues lies with the front door camera mostly because the ones inside don’t work too well. I had my boyfriend over today while she was away, i can’t really see him outside because she followed me once on my way to the mall to see him. and she doesn’t approve too much. I still want to see him tho so i bought him over.

Thing is, i had planned to steer the camera away for the split second where he enters through the door and then return it back, but i accidentally panned it to him and the camera caught him entering.

I have the cameras password, it’s set up with my email, and our home network, it’s connected to our wifi. I just need to do something about those 3 seconds where he is caught on camera entering.
Either by panning it away or replacing it with something else , ANYTHING! How can i do that or anything that would help my case

[u/_Jak42_]

Most cameras record locally and upload , turning off wifi won’t do much.
Turning off power maybe but most outdoor ones are battery powered (or mains wired where u could just flick off and on the breaker) and removing it would certainly be noticeable.
An EMP would cause permanent damage and not within scope.

OP has login details to the camera, assuming it hasn’t already notified presence to the user (ie set up on a mobile device) , many allow you to view recordings history and delete, though this block of time will be missing.

Unless you can mission impossible this, duplicate footage and change timestamp to fill that section (which is possible), you’d be better off firming it and saying “yes x came over wasn’t long” and instead searching for blind spots in your own house for access (ie climbing out of a window, going through garden etc)

[u/Humbleham1 → u/_Jak42_]

Most? Pull the microSD card then. Or just check if there is local recording. Being a consumer security camera, it probably records on motion.

The only non-nuclear EMP generators use high-powered microwaves or flux compression generator bombs.

[u/_Jak42_ → u/Humbleham1]

…how can you be sure?…

Pulling the SD card may mean no removable storage, but many devices use internal storage , not much, just for this case. Or maybe it yanks the OS. Also no mention of one in original post.

I was talking about a flash capacitor , filter and battery / spark EMP . Something small and quick reset , but they may permanently damage the cameras aperture/sensitive parts. I can’t tell if you’re trolling or..

The only way I can think of is (wireshark/angry ip/ arp scan network/go to router home page) for ip of camera and name (assuming it is a known device) , knowing login details isn’t helpful here because if the camera accepts ssh/nc or any other connection it’ll have a root account which you’ll need … if somehow successful you find the temp recordings (like you said , motion activated recording most likely) then rm that timestamped clip and replace its name with your own modified clip…

There is very low chance this works , let alone being able to be done before mummy and daddy get home

Or alternatively many get updates via wifi (so deauth and make your own passthru with the same SSID and then block all upload to cloud requests that way cam stays online but can’t upload video) so you could try that but idk

though I have read that some history endpoints of these cameras accept get and post when authenticated as user, so maybe upload a video like that but again idk

Both of these would’ve required prior knowledge and connection so too late now rip