Viewer
Cross-platform viewer for OpenIPC IP cameras - live RTSP with HW decode, multi-camera grid, on-device AI detection, recording & two-way audio, ONVIF discovery.
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
+$5.00USD
Completed
Contribution #985912
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Today’s balance$5.00 USD
Total raised
$5.00 USD
Total disbursed
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Estimated annual budget
$60.00 USD
About
Features
- Live RTSP - h264 / h265, software + hardware decode (D3D11VA / VAAPI /VideoToolbox / Android MediaCodec), auto-reconnect, auto SD/HD switching.
- Multi-camera grid - up to 25 streams, tabbed layouts with their own grid size, drag-reorder that sticks per layout, fullscreen kiosk mode, and a *Live | Stills* switch for a low-cost mode (periodic HTTP snapshots instead of video).
- Single-camera view - PTZ joystick for sweeping plus a step keypad for framing (one nudge per press, home position, move speed), presets, telemetry overlay, snapshot to disk + share. Which PTZ controls appear is read from the camera, so a device that cannot step or go home is not offered buttons that would fail.
- Digital zoom - up to 8× in live view and in the recording player: wheel or pinch zooms at the cursor, drag pans, Shift+drag (or the zoom-to-area button) draws a box to zoom into, with a minimap while zoomed. Detection boxes follow the zoom.
- Adding cameras - type an address and login, press *Connect*: the editor detects OpenIPC / ONVIF, fills in streams, ports and name and shows a live frame — or says plainly what failed (unreachable, wrong login, no video). A pasted `rtsp://` link is split into fields; everything else sits under collapsible *Advanced* rows. QR-code add from an image.
- Camera discovery - *Find on network* starts a quick ONVIF + mDNS scan as soon as it opens, recognises OpenIPC by its web fingerprint, and adds each result with one click; an opt-in deep scan sweeps subnets and IP ranges for cameras that announce nothing.
- Camera library - dense list with search by name / IP / group, status filters with live counts, a pager, and a per-row menu (edit, device tools, files, which layouts the camera is in).
- Recording & archive - segmented MP4 via `-c copy`. Recordings are grouped by day with camera / period / motion-only filters and an activity calendar. The player has 0.5×–8× speed, frame stepping, sound, fullscreen, clip export, save-frame-to-snapshots and auto-continue into the next recording, all with keyboard shortcuts.
- Events - motion and AI detections filtered by camera / type / period, bursts folded into one episode, what was detected shown as class icons, and a jump straight to the recording at the moment of the event.
- AI detection (local) - ONNX object detection on-device (person / car / bike / animal…), boxes in the grid and single view, auto-record on detection. The AI page shows engine status, per-camera switches and a 24-hour summary. No cloud: the model runs in-process.
- Audio - one-tap listen (AAC/PCM) and push-to-talk to cameras with an RTSP backchannel.
- Majestic integration - read / apply config with diff preview, raw JSON editor, RTMP push, day / night / auto mode.
- Device tools - SSH terminal, remote file manager, reboot / clock / log snapshots over SSH.
- Health & status - unified per-camera verdict (online / attention / offline) across grid, library and a Health Center overview.
- Notifications - system notifications for motion and detections, with quiet hours.
- Desktop niceties - tray icon with quick actions, optional close-to-tray, choice of start page (Library or Live) and startup layout, light/dark themes with accent colors.
- Camera groups, English / Russian UI (runtime switch), responsive layout (sidebar on desktop, bottom tab strip and bottom sheets on phones).
- Web console (self-host) - run the same binary with `--server-only` for a browser UI to your cameras over the LAN: live grid with saved layouts, PTZ, network discovery, camera management, config backup, and accounts with per-user permissions and camera subsets. No cloud. See the self-hosting guide.
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