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Oliver Parkes

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:20:50 PM8/3/24

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You were close. It looks to me like the launch agent "com.valvesoftware.steamclean" is responsible for this. Unloading the "com.valvesoftware.steam.ipctool" agent/service may effectively disable the other one.

Figured it out. Steam has a launchctl agent that runs (com.valvesoftware.steam.ipctool) out of the /Applications/Steam.app/ directory. If I stop the daemon and remove the Steam.app, no dialog appears.

It must poll to see if its executable path still exists and prompts the user if goes missing. Also, the inactive-looking title bar implies that this dialog is indeed coming from some sort of background process.

According to the promo sheets on aliexpress it uses a Hi31518Ev200. Disappointed to discover that it does not support onvif/rtsp for use with zoneminder and definititely not happy about having to use cloud of the vendor.

You have a video doorbell. Thus some functions might not work as OpenIPC is more about IP cameras.
Yet, the flashing process is not a user friendly yet.
You need to open the camera an connect UART. This might be hard for you.

There is Luci web interface like in OpenWRT which can help you to configure network and system stuff.
But streaming related configuration is currently done in config files. There plans to make GUI interface for camera related stuff configuration but nothing is ready yet.

I also see openhisiipcam.org and some of the same developers are on that - is that project no obsolete for this one? if so, there is some good material regarding the h/w , etc. wouldn't it make sense to incorporate that info with the openipc site.

OpenIPC supports not exact models of hardware (like your Sricam SP015), but SoC and sensors.
The thing is that one and the same model can have different sensors and SoC. Sometimes sellers do not know what is inside!
Thus it is important to run ipctool to get hardware information.
Yet please understand, that OpenIPC is in the early stages of development and is not yet convenient for ordinal users. PTZ might be supported with some code manipulation or with ONWIF. But there is no GUI support for PTZ as far as I know.