CamRelay - RTSP Live IP Camera

Turn your Android device into a high-performance RTSP security camera, IP surveillance monitor, or connected vehicle dashcam with CamRelay. Whether you need a 24/7 home security camera, an IP surveillance feed, an in-car dashcam, or an OBS Studio video source, CamRelay delivers low-latency, hardware-accelerated RTSP streaming directly from your phone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 KEY HIGHLIGHTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • RTSP Server Streaming: Broadcast live HD video and audio across your local network (LAN/Wi-Fi) via standard RTSP protocol, accessible by any compatible player or NVR. • Two-Way Audio (RTSP Backchannel)*: Hear live audio and speak back remotely through supported NVRs and VMS surveillance software. • Web Browser Interface: Access a clean web console from any PC, tablet, or browser to monitor live camera feeds and manage controls remotely. • Screen Dimming & Immersive Mode: Hide controls with immersive mode or turn the display pitch black to save battery and protect OLED/AMOLED screens from burn-in. • Auto-Start on Device Boot: Automatically resumes streaming when your phone powers on—ideal for dedicated security cameras and dashcams. • Real-Time On-Screen Overlays: Display a live GPS speed HUD, precise timestamps, custom camera names, and battery level & temperature (°C/°F). • Camera Controls: Switch front/rear cameras, toggle torch, lock focus to infinity, and utilize hardware stabilization (OIS/EIS) & HDR*. • Local Recording & Web File Manager: Record MP4 videos directly to device storage, then browse, watch, or download recordings remotely via the web interface. • Privacy-Focused: Direct peer-to-peer local streaming without cloud accounts, subscriptions, or tracking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 POPULAR USE CASES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Security Camera & NVRs: Direct RTSP integration with Home Assistant, Frigate NVR, Synology Surveillance Station, QNAP, Blue Iris, ZoneMinder, or MotionEye. • Connected Vehicle Dashcam: Mount in your car with auto-boot on ignition, continuous recording, and GPS speed watermark HUD. • Wireless Video Feed: High-quality wireless RTSP camera source for OBS Studio, vMix, Wirecast, or VLC. • Baby & Pet Monitor: Keep an eye on loved ones and talk back using real-time two-way audio over your Wi-Fi. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ ADVANCED CUSTOMIZATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Video Quality: Resolutions from 480p, 720p, 1080p, up to 4K or higher (hardware-dependent). • Video Codecs (H.264 & H.265/HEVC): Choose H.264 for maximum compatibility or H.265 to cut bandwidth and save storage. • Bitrate & Framerate: Fine-tune video bitrate, audio bitrate, and target FPS (15 to 60 FPS). • Advanced Optics & HDR*: Support for Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS), and HDR video. • Audio Control: High-quality AAC audio capture with customizable bitrate and audio streaming toggle. • Thermal Monitoring: Monitor battery temperature to safeguard your device during continuous operation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ℹ️ COMPATIBILITY NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * Two-Way Talk: Uses standard RTSP backchannel audio. Compatible with Frigate NVR (via go2rtc / WebRTC) or any NVR/VMS supporting RTSP audio backchannel. * OIS, EIS & HDR: Optical Image Stabilization, Electronic Video Stabilization, and HDR availability depend on your device's camera sensor and hardware support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PERMISSIONS TRANSPARENCY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Camera & Microphone: Capture live video and stream audio with two-way talk. • Location: Calculate live speed overlay for dashcam mode (processed strictly on-device). • Foreground Service: Keeps streaming and recording active reliably with a persistent status notification. • Boot Completed: Enables optional auto-launch on device power-up. Turn your smartphone into a powerful, reliable RTSP security and surveillance camera today with CamRelay!