Comment on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

• kewjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  just beware this is their implementation but it is possible to detect movement in wifi signal without special equipment. netgear, tp-link and a few more were found to have backdoors in them for authorized remote access via ssh. opnsense, pfsense, ipfire, openwrt i believe haven’t been found to include these backdoors, so basically don’t trust any closed/proprietary source routers.

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  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At this point, if I didn’t build it and install the OS, it isn’t secure enough for my home.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I, for one, am looking forward to a plugin to do this with OpenWRT and Home Assistant for my own purposes.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not sure about OpenWRT, but you can do WiFi motion detection with an ESP32.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I found that one. Still, I’d prefer it to be built into my WAPs instead of having to use separate hardware, even if I do have extra ESP32s sitting around.

        I mean, maybe if I could just tack it on as an extra function on some other device I was already going to be using an ESP32 in, but (especially in microcontroller-land as opposed to full preemptively-multitasking PC land) that sounds like maybe more complexity than I want to deal with.

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