[Swlug] Mystery Chinese gizmo

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 20:07, Rhys Sage via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> I bought a Chinese 309WF gizmo. It is alleged to connect to a backup camera. There are no instructions. I did find it set up a wifi network and the password was 88888888. From there it all went downhill.
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> There is an Android app that is alleged to connect to the gizmo via wifi but while it connects, that's it. It does nothing else.
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> I think the first thing I need to do is to locate its IP address on the network. Once I have that I'm going to hazard a guess that I can open that with a web browser and it *might* work. How would I discover the IP address? I did know this at one point but have forgotten.

Have a look in the dhcp table in your router.  It will probably be in
there, you just have to identify which one it is.

Colin