Clearcam: Open-Source AI Monitor That Turns Any Camera Into an Event-Summarizing Watchdog
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-25
Clearcam (983 stars on GitHub) upgrades any RTSP camera with AI: object detection and tracking, mobile notifications, and new AI notification summaries powered by Qwen3 VL that describe each event in plain language for easy search.
Setup is lightweight: Mac/Linux/Windows with ffmpeg and Python 3.11+, run pip install -r requirements.txt then clearcam.py, and open localhost:8080; use DEV=AMD / DEV=NV to force GPU inference. The repo also ships iOS/Android clients and a public test video feed.
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