Meet Scrypted - Stream ANY Camera to ANY Home Hub

[@Geoxor]

Tim always coming in clutch with new software I didn't know exists whenever I need it, cheers 🍻

[@TechnoTim]

I gotchu

[@DanZimmerli]

The thing about Apple Home and "Stream Only" vs. recording is the recordings are actually stored in iCloud, not your Scrypted instance (unless you get the NVR plugin for Scrypted, which is actually something separate). Great video!

[@MrAlucardDante]

That’s neat. For folks only running homeassistant, another great alternative is frigate. It’s designed to run as a container and to be integrated with home assistant, it can add any camera that has an RTSP stream. And it got updated recently to support TensorFlow on nVidia GPUs for super fast and local object detection.

[@seethruhead7119]

wouldn't you want to use frigate AND scrypted? Assuming your goal was to add any camera to alexa/homekit/etc?

[@-someone-.]

Hey, what if only use motioneye with 5 raspberry pi’s & cams? I’ve found that due to the different cameras I use and different raspbian versions (buster, bullseye), I can’t use the integrated function within motioneye to see all cams on one page, it can’t find other devices, so I thought this scrypted might be an alternative…(I’ll have to setup home assistant now though, which I’ve never done.) Hope you can give any suggestions 👍

[@MrAlucardDante]

@@seethruhead7119 I guess there is nothing preventing that. You could use frigate for object detection and use frigatés restream fuctionality to feed the video into scrypted

[@transatlant1c]

@@seethruhead7119 definitely. Setup frigate and record for a longer time there, then restream to Google home, as the retention there is very limited anyway. Plus then if you wanted to automate on events, it’d be much quicker than going over the public net to the Google home api

[@vedranart]

I'd like to use this with Shinobi. I moved from MotionEye to Shinobi because I found out that it is more flexible, faster, and records every moment without a miss in recordings which motioneye was doing it all the time on the same hardware... Any way to combine Scrypted with Shinobi? Thanks!

[@xmetal280]

Dude, thank you for this video! I never would have come across this normally, but this is incredibly handy. I have a mix of cameras on different services and had no idea I could consolidate them all into HomeKit like this. Super solid info and channel, subbed!

[@nunoalexandre4273]

Thanks! I really needed this!👍🏻you rock!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!

[@rajkhan8731]

Scrypted is Awesome. I was using tapo hacs addon in home assistant and that never worked properly. Scrypted works perfectly, I integrated with homekit with two way audio, recording on icloud. It’s just amazing. Thank you

[@CTWilliams89]

This is perfect timing. I'm moving right now and plan on installing my new unify gear and setting up home assistant in the next week!

[@kaibae4791]

Thanks for the video! I’ve been running Scrypted on my home network for about a year to put my cheap cameras into Apple's Secure Video. It has been solid! Highly recommended. FWIW I have been running it in Docker.

[@WillSeele]

This is amazing! It also works really well as a Home Assistant addon, if you’re already running it. And the developer was also heavily involved with CyanogenMod in the past. What a legend.

[@Guyfrommars183]

Yep, I caught that too. ❤

[@SuleimanALAQEL]

Wow, very interesting trivia! Definitely gives this a lot more trust in my book!

[@bmickle]

Oh man that brings back some memories!!

[@ricksiddiqui8354]

The answer to so many (incompatible) prayers!!!! You're an amazing presenter and a lifesaver!!!!!

[@Renmike80]

I found out about Scrypted last year when I was trying to integrate my TP Link Kasa doorbell into HomeAssistant. I ended up changing to a Reolink video doorbell (which is already supported in HA) but still use Scrypted via a Proxmox container for my Arlo wireless cameras and outside of the occasional need to restart the plugin it’s been great.

[@l0gic23]

Interesting. I hate my arlo cams. Does your setup make them reliable?

[@Renmike80]

@@l0gic23 Not sure if it's Scrypted or due to Arlo requiring some sort of re-auth but I tend to need to request a new 2FA code every couple of weeks. Otherwise it pulls in all the features you see in the app and has been pretty reliable for the last few months that I've had arlo cams in there.

[@SilverCard23]

Dang finally it’s on your channel! Been using it for a bit and it’s been improving steadily!

[@EpicLPer]

I wonder if this allows you to connect Tuya cameras that don't have RTSP output to something like Blue Iris as example

[@gibboireland]

One of the best videos all year - such great news that this can be done. Think Im up and running, thanks so much for making this!

[@Rodrigo-rq1dx]

The port you reffer in the video is diffferent to what's on the docker compose file, Took me a long time to see the difference!

[@ortem4435]

Great video Tim- all setup and working great with Homebridge/Scrypted/Homekit/Synology 1618+ //// Trying to figure out how to get the notifications working on the Apple TV 4K's in the house - Ai360 camera is the only slow to respond camera out of all the Unifi cameras- No doorbell Unifi cam- just G4 Pros and Ai360 -12 total. ANy hints on the notifications and pop ups/ PIP on Apple TV's would be appreciated.

[@magnusblomqvist4571]

I used docker-compose as usual. I copied your setup and it worked fine but the port 11080 was used, not 10443. Great Work! Thanx

[@kaplanworldwide]

Thank you for this! Spent the last 2 days hitting my head against the wall.

[@Jdmr1701]

Thank you for this. I’ve been trying to find a solution to get my camera into HomeKit so my partner can see them and feel safer. Home Assistant wasn’t bridging them but got them setup with this! Very easy to do thank you again. Love your videos.

[@borngeek666]

About to embark on this journey. home assistant > zigbee co-ordinator > hikvision NVR > and then... Great vid! :)

[@airBornFpv]

Also considering using that to add cams to my HomeKit -hikvision

[@jeisonsanchez4842]

Can’t wait to try Scrypted. I had 2 ring doorbells hooked up to HomeKit through HOOBs and it worked well for a long time until it started to repeatedly send alerts when someone rang the doorbell. It was like one alert every two seconds for a few minutes. I disconnected HOOBs and added then through home assistant - now I don’t get any notifications and if I ever do, the video snapshot is from a past event. So… can’t wait to try Scrypted. Thanks!

[@brandonfitzpatrick1797]

I installed scripted on windows via power shell. I was trying to get my nest and google cameras on there.. can’t seem to find tutorials for it. Any ideas? I know google shut down their api but some how sterling home hub can get it to work so I assume it’s still possible..

[@SE-161]

This is what I've been waiting for a looooong time.. I tried so many times to get my unifi protectin to my homekit setup, but I always failed. Now thanks to Tim, I finally got it to work. THANKS AGAIN TIM! I just have one question. Since scrypted knows the local login credentials does it mean, that it can be used by the developer of scrypted? Just concerning about privacy..

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!!! 2 things 1) it’s open source so unlikely that code could sneak in. To be sure pin your container to a tag or better yet the SHA 2) it’s a local only account so they would have to have local access to your UniFi device

[@SE-161]

@@TechnoTim thank you so much for the incredible job and thanks a lot for getting back to this so quickly... much appreciated!

[@gfilion]

I have a ~15 year old axis network camera next to my front door. It’s so old, it only supports MJPEG as a streaming format. I wonder if I could get it to work with scripted…

[@MM-sz6ku]

I liked. I subscribed. You made this is a FOR DUMMIES presentation and I needed that!

[@drausenistes7178]

Danke!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@fullsleevetats]

Looks great! Unfortunately, doesn't seem to support Eufy security cams or their HomeBase local AI/ML storage solution. I VLAN these off from Internet access and from each other, but Scrypted isn't quite there yet. I'll keep looking into it as the project matures, hoping that it will support the Eufy cams some day. I have 10 tocal cameras, homelab, outside and inside as well.

[@stupidhead7881]

Amazing video so far. Your video's get me motivated to do these things. Just last week, you got me into docker. Thank you

[@prevaloir5362]

This is awesome, hope there's a SmartThings plug in coming soon

[@Mikesco3]

I still can't believe Tim only has 146k subscribers! There a lot of channels that don't provide nearly the amount of value and have more subscribers...

[@KakistocracySurvivor]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much. You just turned a bad day into a good day. You have a lifetime Subscriber here!

[@JonathanRobert]

Going to give this a shot! Is there anyway tk control the snapshot refresh image for battery ring cameras? My issue I found with HomeBridge (hence the look to move to this) was the 10 sec refresh causing my ring battery to drain! Anyway to control this better with this?

[@IAmJakeDamon]

You're a real one for muting "Hey Siri"

[@gkhaled1]

Thanks Tim for the tutorial. I tried it with my unifi g4 pro (I have 3) on a synlogy to connect them to HomeKit and it works wonderful. Not issues, been running for days now. I used homebridge before and it was a nightmare needing lots of reboots because it HomeKit secure video stops working.

[@lloydsshednanigans]

Thanks for the beaut' video! I've been looking for something more to tinker with and adding my cameras. I have a few (ahem 10), like yourself. Very impressed by how easy it is to get them into homekit and alexa! I've got a whole lot of ONVIF setups for things here and there but I think this will put them all in one place. It's great to be able to see the carport camera from the shed echo show, for example!

[@i_Kruti]

This is exactly what I wanted a video on....!!!

[@indyspud]

SUPER interesting, thanks for making this video!

[@krunalshah8365]

This is great. I am just starting to get into home automation. Can the same thing be achieved with the Scrypted add on in Home Assistant?

[@amsg3243]

For homekit, doesn't unifi have a work around solution withhomebridge?

[@DanZimmerli]

I Love Scrypted! Been using it for a while now. Thanks for doing a video on it.

[@amplexus21]

Would this do a better job than homebridge? homebridge doesnt work with audios for TPlink Tapo cameras on Homekit.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Problem I'm having is getting the ports setup for Homekit to talk to Scrypted running on my Synology. It seems each camera wants a random port.

[@faster_than_bugs]

companies : you can't connect our products to our competitors' products open source : let me take care of that

[@tonymontana24596]

Question, do I need to be running a server to host locally? Or can this be done on the cloud? I've got a UDM SE, can I direct this to be hosted on my NAS?

[@jbgrenouille2527]

excellent video ! I was wondering if it worked for xiaomi cameras? Or do I need to install an alternative firmware first? for example OpenIPC

[@Donly1pt]

Can this get blink cameras to stream to HA (instead of just snapshot)?

[@TurboUrban]

The video I didnt know I needed, great stuff! Will definitely set this up at home

[@matthewlewis4559]

Does anyone know if this would help link cameras with BlueIris? I've got a couple Blink cameras that I'd like to integrate and not be stuck with their app.

[@fmbar00]

HI! great video!!! I will give this a try later. I have a question, I use some smartphones as home cameras through Alfred Camera camera, does anyone know if this can work with camera feed from that app?

[@drew---]

Hey Tim, if you setup scrypted on host mode in portainer. Were you still able to use traefik with it? I'm having some trouble but I assume it's because scrypted requires host and traefik portainer containers should be using proxy network. Any advice?

[@ClementJihn]

Hey I have Philip’s camera . Is it possible ? Since I cannot find any plugin .

[@naronaroyan323]

How do you direct hardware bypass into docker? Not sure how to bring in AV jack or Bluetooth into a docker install from the Pi.

[@felipezxp]

Hi, I Have a Onvif PTZ Camera and I had add to homekit ant it works well, But I can't add the commands to Pan, Tilt and Zoom this Camera. Do you know if it is possible to control PTZ on HomeKit app?

[@defyiant]

I’m moving and want to set this up in my apartment. I have a unraid server to deploy a docker container. Will this software just stream or will it record to a drive on the server?

[@ChrisOnRockyTop]

Question: How do you get all the cameras to show up on your TV like that and monitor them all on same screen or even Picture In Picture like you did in this video? Im guessing its only with Home Kit as that's what you use? If so, how can we do this with Home Assistant or Android/Samsung?

[@meguinness1116]

can it be used with a doorbell to store the the video trigered by motion detection from the bell and stored to sd card to the local nas? ta

[@MikeHarris1984]

Unifi protect is setup in my home assistant. So all my cams work and act as sensors. I can get package/person/vehicle/smoke detection and fire alerts via home assistant. I cant even set camera peramiters via HA. It works amazing. And my unifi network integrates perfect too!! HA is amazing. I use my g4 pro door bell to sent notification to all my devices with a pic IN the drop down notification when a person is detected in a certain zone and my door is locked. This way i dont get false alarms constant when unloading groceries. And my front door locks automatically after 2 minutes being shut.

[@Dreamtwister2k]

You censored "Hey Siri" but blasted "Alexa" 3 times loud on your video. I see how it is...

[@TechnoTim]

Haha! Sorry! I totally forgot! I thought you had to say “Hey Alexa!”

[@ClementJihn]

Hey I have Philip’s camera . Is it possible ?

[@brandonfitzpatrick1797]

does it support wyze? also any reason to use this over starling home hub?

[@mitchmintz111]

Will Scrypted work with Wyze. I can pull up my camera up on TV with Firestick but can’t find a way to access on Google - Android TVs. Wyze doesn’t support RTSP.

[@photon92]

What about trying this on split IoT and camera networks? Both of which can't even reach my main LAN gateway...?

[@lukeshoff3983]

Does this work in reverse? Like to connect a old rtsp camera to unifi?

[@henderstech]

Thank for this! Perfect timing! I had just found a few PTZ tuya cams for like 5$ at a junk store. I have not been using them because I could not get them into Home Assistant and frigate. I was messing with "goRTC" to try and accomplish this with no luck. This should be just what I am looking for. I will try it as soon as I am home.

[@mathieuleclerc4136]

what if you have a vlan for your IoT and another one for your cameras? Should you make rules for all of your cameras?

[@alanjoyce9290]

Greetings from Ireland, I love open source software. Thank for sharing this information.Pi's are deadly. I need to go through more of your videos. Just upgraded my USG an cloudkey2+ to UDMPRO yesterday, had to reset the whole system again but its nice and tasty fast now.

[@brb408wpb]

Thanks for the video Tim. I have been running Scypted to connect a Wyze camera via RTSP to HomeKit for over a month on an old r.pi 3. The device always had some stability issues, so I did reload of the OS on the device. That didn't help with the low power issue, so I decided to try a VirtualBox install. I have two working, one with Ubuntu 22 and one with Debian 12. I wanted run this by you. When setting up the camera now in Homekit, the advanced features of recording, recognizing objects, etc. are not available on all 3 solutions - updated r.pi, Ubuntu, and Debian. In Homekit, the message for the added camera says "This accessory has not been certified to work with Homekit so some features may not be available." Do you think Apple has done a recent update to block adding cameras through a method like this? Have to you gotten this message before?

[@CraigClark-l4d]

Can I use this to connect my various camera models to my UDM pro and see the cameras in unifi protect? thanks

[@tomaszswietlikowski7804]

1/ the device with docker have to be ON all the time to make it running? 2/ can you use homekit secure video program with cameras added this way? Thanks

[@TechnoTim]

Yes it needs to be on, and yes you can use HomeKit Secure Video with this, it's awesome!

[@AfonsoFilipeJr]

can you use ADC-V724 1080p Outdoor camera as well? Also is there any change to integrate the Qolsys IQ Panel 2- Telus ? Thanks

[@KeNNyTuber]

Hey Tim, what type of lights do you use on your back and front porch that you can connect in Home app ?

[@Zedris]

Would this work with blink cameras? Ithis would be awesome

[@bdguth07]

Will this bring the base station into HomeKit so we can arm and disarm?

[@dfpcmaia]

Not sure the "stream ANY camera" claim is accurate. Does this work HKSV cameras like the Logitech Circle View?

[@titothomas78]

Does this live stream from Unifi works in script when you outside home network

[@valtervalente4003]

great video, anyone know if this work with Blink cameras, thanks!

[@bondjw07]

Duuuuude, killer video. I'll be setting this all up in my new place once it's done and I'm just happy to see that it won't be as big of a headache as I expected!

[@kylecurry6841]

Awesome find Tim! So is Scrypted looking for RTSP (or RTSPS) in the case of UniFi Protect?

[@vboutique2188]

Is it true blink cameras are not supported?

[@alexanderklein9511]

Nice, thanks for sharing the possibility Best regards from Germany

[@clouddatabase9206]

Hi tim do you have any idea to unify all these IP CCTV under 1 app?

[@nandurx]

This is great along with tailscale for other home. I can see everything from one place. I love linux based systems.

[@tennis2xl]

Hello! I know this is an "older video" but how would a noob like me get started? I don't know anything about servers or any of the OS's other than Windows. I know I would like to use homekit for most of my cameras but I heard a few things about them missing events. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and this was a great video, even if I did not understand most of it.

[@magicmanj32]

awesome, just about to buy some reolink cameras for my home assistant...this is very handy, very useful app and video, thanks

[@sulylunat]

I like scrypted but I have one gripe which I don't know if its scrypteds issue or googles, but I can't for the life of me get my nest Hello (wired 1st gen) motion events to work, I get the stream fine but no recording. It seems the motion sensor for it just doesn't work. It used to once upon a time, but stopped working and has never started working again since. I do pay for Nest Aware so get the recordings there anyway, but I would have loved to just be able to go to one app to see all my recordings for my cameras.

[@c-LAW]

I don't know what is "Home Hub" and is this different from "Home Kit" ?

[@tonyvalenti6614]

What about wireless cameras; like Ring, Blink, Wyze, etc?

[@BigFourHead]

im testing this over just using homebridge and unifi plugin, one thing i cant do is remote stream on my devices.

[@zdstudios-fo1yf]

Its taking sooooooo long to deploy the container its just stuck there that should i do?

[@gmontenegro9711]

Would it work with Vivint cameras?

[@henryschroer]

did you ever connect a Eufy camera? or Xfinity camera? Its very bold to say ANY camera when the tools has nothing out of the box so far.

[@DavidB-e3f]

@technotim am I able to hire you to zoom with me and walk me through this ??

[@Bigangelo007]

Do you need to set up a static ip address for a raspberry pi, or nas? Does the unit need to be plugged in at all times?

[@iyachawlinglawching]

Great great video ! I'm moving next month and definitely need some security cameras at the new home Thanks for sharing this video with us

[@cuonghuynh6552]

The app does not understand the sign-in code generated, could you help to double check it again ? Tks so much

[@tier1athlete829]

Can I use scripted for blink systems to applekit?

[@magesh8701]

Does it support Tapo tplink cameras?

[@gswhite]

Brilliant! Been looking for something like this. The Unifi Protect plugin which is native to Alexa does not work very well. This worked perfectly. I now have 6 cameras I integrated with Alexa :) Happy days.

[@Fr3ubel]

Would it be possible to connect my google doorbel camera to blue iris and have the stream recorded by bue iris ?

[@Mannniie]

This video is amazing thank you so much. Do you have an affiliate link for scripted subscriptions, before I sign up?

[@robertdalga128]

Maybe a dumb question but can one simply add Scripted to Home Assistant with any camera? Even Eufy cameras ?

[@NiTeHaWKnz]

Tim, throwing shade at apple 😂 nice!