There was that golden decade on the Chinese web shops. It didn’t matter if you ordered something for $ 40 or something for $ 0,20. The shipping was always free. The downside was that it took weeks or even months before it arrived. But I didn’t care. I was always a joy to find those small yellow envelops from China in my mailbox. I ordered back then a lot of cheap supplies for my electronic workbench. Maybe it was my observation or not. But I felt that in that period, also more and more new brands were popping up. Blitzwolf, Xiaomi, etc, etc. This was also the time that I was introduced to the brand Digoo.
On the website Banggood there was this new brand Digoo. they were offering a lot of fun electronic devices for a low price. I needed a small camera for my 3D printer so that I could remotely check on the prints. And also see what went wrong when the print has become a failure. So I ordered for $ 10,82 the product with the fancy title: 1 x Digoo DG-M1Q 960P 2.8mm Wireless Mini WIFI Night Vision Smart Home Security IP Camera Onvif Monitor (1123595). A close focal point so that I could mount it in my 3D printer. Small that it wasn’t intrusive. It even has WiFi and is powered with USB cable. Great camera.
But what happens to a lot of products? (and this is still a thing in 2025) The company stops supporting the app. Now this can be a reason to throw the product away. But here is what makes the Digoo camera different from a lot of other cameras. You can still configure without having access to the app. Yeah!
The first step is how can you connect the camera to wifi without the official app?
You need an empty micro-SD card. Create a text file named Wifiinfo.txt on this SD card. In this file, you will note the following three lines
WifiName:YourWirelessName
Password:YourWifiPassword
PasswordType:2For YourWirelessName and YourWifiPassword you will use your own WiFi information. Save the file and insert this micro-SD card in the powered-off camera and turn it on. In a few minutes, you will see the camera appears in the devices overview in your router. You will need the IP address. In my situation, the IP address is 10.0.1.40
Now let’s check if the camera is working properly. I use the free program VLC. Maybe the best media player ever made.
File -> Open network ->
rtsp://admin:20160404@10.0.1.40/onvif1admin and 20160404 are the standard login name and password for this camera. If you now see the image of the camera in VLC then you know that the camera is working. If you want to use the camera in another application. Don’t forget to quit VLC.
I use Synology Surveillance Station software to record the videos from my camera’s. The important thing is that in SSS you also need to use the correct port of the camera. This is 554. Choose in the software. that you want to manually add the camera. You choose a User defined brand and the type is the RTSP. In the path box you will use the following line. Please keep in mind that I use the default loginname and password. And the IP address I have found in my router. In you situation this can be different.
admin:20160404@10.0.1.40:554/onvif1
If you have done everything correctly you will see the camera popup in the Synology software and you can recording the stream.
Why did I write this blog post? To be honest. I needed a place where I could find the settings for the Synology software. With the Synology software, you can only install two cameras at the time. So sometimes I have to delete a camera before I can install another camera. This blog post is nothing more than a public notepad for the settings.