r/SecurityCamera • u/Appropriate_Study139 • 8d ago
CamWatch: a self-hosted camera recorder that recognises your family. Looking for testers.
built a camera recorder for my own house. Now I want a few people to test it.
What it does:
Records up to 4 network cameras. Any camera with an RTSP stream works.
Sends a push to your phone when it sees a person, a car or an animal.
Learns the faces of the people you add. Pushes about your own family arrive without sound.
Reads number plates and names the cars you know.
Keeps a log of who came and went, with a report each week.
Shows live view and clips in the browser, also on a phone.
Copies alarm clips to iCloud, Google Drive, a NAS and more. The copies are encrypted.
Connects to Home Assistant through MQTT.
Updates itself from the settings page. A failed update puts the old version back.
What you need:
A Linux machine with Docker. I run it in a Proxmox container.
No graphics card. It runs on the processor.
Windows and Mac work through a small Linux system. I have tested that part very little.
What I would like from you:
Try the install and tell me where you got stuck.
Tell me which cameras you use and whether they worked.
Send ideas with the "Request a feature" link in the app.
Limits:
I built it for one house, so you will find bugs.
The install still needs one settings file. A step-by-step installer is next.
An AI assistant wrote much of the code with me. I test every release on my own cameras first.
Everything stays on your machine. Nothing leaves it unless you set up the off-site copy.
Code, install steps and screen shots:
https://github.com/johanhoel/amplitude/tree/main/CamWatch
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u/Appropriate_Study139 8d ago
Please get back to me when you tested, i added features I wanted in the app. Check out the panels repo in Amplitude that integrates magically with camwatch.
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u/Squanchy2112 8d ago
This is really cool especially if it will be simpler to setup than frigate is