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Cheap Chinese NVR cameras unlocked for Frigate with Strix
Claude Code analysed an Android app's traffic to decode an obscure camera protocol, which led to Strix, a tool that finds working stream URLs and writes Frigate config.
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The poster had spent two years unable to connect twelve cheap Chinese NVRs to Frigate: all ports closed except 80, no RTSP and no documentation. He pointed Claude Code at the traffic from the cameras' Android app, and about two hours later they had working streams. The protocol was called Bubble.
That led to Strix, which holds about 100,000 URL patterns for 67,000 camera models and tests them from an IP address and credentials, captures screenshots and generates a Frigate config. Without cameras to test other protocols, he had Claude write fake-camera servers for six protocols and for Apple HomeKit. He reports 13,700 Docker pulls, 615 GitHub stars and a mention in Frigate's documentation.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Frigate officially recommends my ai slop. Even French tech press wrote about it
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Frigate officially recommends my ai slop. Even French tech press wrote about it (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: eduard256
Linked in the post.