homebridge-camera-ui VS camera.ui

https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui maybe?

You can use virtually any IP camera you want thanks to HomeBridge. I am currently using a Yi cam that I hacked then I’m using HomeBridge and camera-ui.ip plug-in for it. Not the most straightforward, but the cheapest, and setting up HomeBridge unlocks so many possibilities with smart wifi things that are not HomeKit native.

Now that this is a Homebridge Raspberry Pi, I can't find any plugins allowing me to use the camera. Only RTSP plugins, like camera.ui (https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui)...

Recently I came across a new home bridge plug-in for rtsp cameras which enables HKSV support. Here it is https://github.com/seydx/homebridge-camera-ui

Homebridge-camera-ui is very well maintained and works well. I’d use it over homebridgecamera-ffmpeg for now, unfortunately the author of homebridge-camera-ffmpeg has had some difficulties lately and hasn’t had much time to update it.

So I have a Raspberry Pi. On that Pi, I have Portainer and Home Bridge. On Portainer, I'm running Wyze Docker Bridge which pushes your steams to several formats including RTSP. I'm also running Camera.ui in Home Bridge. There's nothing unique about the Pi in this arrangement, beyond being always available – so it's a set up you could replicate on any computer.

Step 3: Install the Camera.ui plugin to Homebridge. Version 5.0.4 adds HSV support for cameras

Following up, looks like the way to get Wyze cams working would be via flashing their RTSP firmware (which looks to include v3 cam support now) and using a plugin that supports RTSP cameras like homebridge-camera-ui or homebridge-camera-ffmpeg. I have a v3 cam as well, I will be doing this myself soon now that I know they provide a download for the firmware. I think also saw something about a docker container that provides a RTSP bridge for Wyze cams without requiring firmware, if that is something you prefer.

CameraUI (https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui) Opensource NVR software for cameras, built on modern progressive web app (PWA) architecture. Beautiful software, unfortunately the original dev has gone AWOL but the latest release is stable and easy to use for recording and viewing cameras.

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

In the past I’ve played around with using Scrypted or Camera.UI to bring non-HomeKit IP cameras into HomeKit. I think HomeAssistant and HomeBridge both have basic modules which would do this too (ffmpeg at bare minimum). A docker image running on a RaspberryPi or Synology is probably good enough.

camera.ui

You could try https://github.com/SeydX/camera.ui. Some say its CPU usage when recognising movement is not as high as scrypted. You could give it a shot.