Your cameras. Your server. Your storage.

OpenCCTV is a free, open-source camera server, NVR and cloud recorder with native apps for iPhone and Android. It turns the IP cameras you already own (TP-Link Tapo, UniFi Protect, Reolink, Hikvision, Dahua, Eufy, any ONVIF or RTSP camera) into a complete security system: live view, 24/7 or motion recording, uploads to Google Drive, S3, FTP, SFTP, SMB or WebDAV with automatic cleanup, motion alerts, and remote access through a gateway without port forwarding.

No vendor cloud, no subscription, no account with us.

Website · Live demo (login demo / demo) · Server docs · API

• Works with your cameras. Brand presets for Tapo, Eufy, UniFi, Reolink, Hikvision, Dahua, Amcrest, Axis, Foscam, EZVIZ, Imou, Annke and Wyze, ONVIF discovery on your network, one-step UniFi Protect import, and eufy account import for battery and solar cameras that have no RTSP (SoloCam, eufyCam, doorbells). Cameras that can only send video can push RTMP or RTSP to the server.
• Live view in under a second. WebRTC with MSE and HLS fallback, HD and SD streams, snapshots, two-way audio and PTZ on supported cameras.
• Recording. Continuous or motion-only per camera, stored the way the camera sends it (no re-encoding), with a timeline, motion markers and clip export.
• Your own cloud. Recordings are copied to Google Drive, S3-compatible storage, FTP, SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or a local folder and deleted automatically after the number of days you choose. Ideal for cameras without an SD card or cloud plan.
• Motion alerts. Motion detection on the server, events with snapshots, push notifications to the app.
• Remote access. Any OpenCCTV server can act as a gateway (for example on a small VPS). Home servers keep an outbound tunnel to it, so the app works from anywhere without opening ports.
• Apps for iPhone and Android and a web UI. Pair a phone by scanning a QR code.

The app source is in app/ (Expo, React Native). Tap Try the live demo in the app to look around without a server.

Docker (Linux, host networking for camera discovery):

docker run -d --name opencctv --restart unless-stopped --network host \
  -v opencctv:/data ghcr.io/codextde/opencctv:latest

Then open http://<server-ip>:8080, create the admin account and add your cameras.

Linux or macOS without Docker:

curl -fsSL https://opencctv.codext.de/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://opencctv.codext.de/install.ps1 | iex

Binaries for Linux (x64, arm64), macOS (Apple silicon, Intel) and Windows are attached to every release. The server downloads go2rtc, ffmpeg and rclone on first start if they are not installed.

Coolify: use deploy/coolify/docker-compose.yml. Everything else (camera setup per brand, Tapo camera accounts, Google Drive, the gateway, environment variables) is in the server README.

cameras ──RTSP/ONVIF/RTMP──▶ OpenCCTV server ──rclone──▶ Google Drive / S3 / FTP / SMB / NAS
                                  │
                       WebRTC · HLS · API · push
                                  │
              iPhone / Android / browser  (LAN, VPN or the gateway)

The server is written in TypeScript on Bun and builds on three excellent open-source tools: go2rtc for camera protocols and streaming, ffmpeg for recording and motion detection, and rclone for storage.

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Run bun run typecheck && bun test in server/ and bun run typecheck in app/ before opening a pull request.

MIT, see LICENSE. Made by Codext GmbH.