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Rick O
@rickoooooo@social.authbypass.com

I've been researching the #flock #ALPR system and trying to figure out what this "compute box" actually is. So far there's an EBay listing that makes it sound like it's purpose is storage. But I'm skeptical about that since it's called "compute box" and not "storage box".

Rick O
@rickoooooo@social.authbypass.com

I think flock may have some camera models that are dumb and just feed video directly into the compute box. It seems like the box connects to up to four cameras at a time. I'm guessing this just does all the same processing that a Falcon camera does, but for four streams at a time. It has at 256gb disk though, which seems excessive.

Anyone know what the #flock #ALPR compute box does? Does it run the same Android software as the Falcon camera model?

kajer | sudo bash
@kajer@infosec.exchange

@rickoooooo@social.authbypass.com What I know about the 7pin connection on the camera body, it's 2 power pins, ground and either i2c or smbus.

I can't imagine that raw video is flowing over that connection. The camera itself does the object detection and cropping to then upload jpgs and mp4s to a cloud host.

It's reasonable to assume that if you had multiple devices on the same pole, they would want to consolidate those upload processes to one session. So my guess is it's consolidating the sqlite DBs in to oine upload stream?

gainsec will be posting a teardown mid september apparently - https://gainsec.com/2025/06/19/grounded-flight-device-2-root-shell-on-flock-safetys-falcon-sparrow-automated-license-plate-reader/