# SharpAI/DeepCamera

Open-Source AI Camera Skills Platform, AI NVR & CCTV Surveillance. Local VLM video analysis with Qwen, DeepSeek, SmolVLM, LLaVA, YOLO26. LLM-powered agentic security camera agent — watches, understands, remembers & guards your home via Telegram, Discord or Slack. Pluggable AI skills. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic or local AI. Runs on Mac Mini & AI PC.

Repository: https://github.com/SharpAI/DeepCamera
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/deepcamera
Homepage: http://www.sharpai.org
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, deep-learning, face-recognition, object-detection, video-surveillance, machine-learning, python, home-assistant, camera, computer-vision, raspberry-pi, ai-camera, cctv, home-security, llama-cpp, llm, local-ai, security-camera, vlm, ai-nvr
Last push: 2026-06-18T04:37:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 74, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2738, "days_push": 76, "days_rel": 173, "gap_med": 23, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3019, forks 476 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:38.400736+00:00)

## What it is
DeepCamera is an open-source AI camera skills platform that runs local VLM scene analysis, object detection, face recognition, and person re-identification on camera streams, with a pluggable skill architecture. Its companion desktop app, SharpAI Aegis, turns it into an LLM-powered security agent that watches, remembers, and answers questions about your home via Telegram, Discord, or Slack, using local models (Qwen, DeepSeek, SmolVLM, LLaVA, YOLO) or cloud AI.

## Use cases
- analyze security camera footage with local vision language models
- detect people, cars, animals, and packages on my CCTV cameras
- build a privacy-first AI NVR without cloud subscriptions
- get plain-English answers about what happened at my front door
- send smart camera alerts to Telegram, Discord, or Slack
- run face recognition and person re-identification on a home camera system
- integrate AI camera detection with Home Assistant
- install pluggable AI skills on my security cameras

## When to choose
- you want local, private AI video analysis on your own hardware (Mac Mini, AI PC)
- you need an agentic security camera system that answers natural-language questions about footage
- you want pluggable ML skills (detection, segmentation, depth) for cameras
- you prefer self-hosted NVR with LLM/VLM integration over cloud services

## When to avoid
- you need an enterprise-grade video management system with certified compliance
- you have no capable local hardware and refuse cloud AI processing
- you only need simple motion detection without AI scene understanding
- you require multi-tenant commercial surveillance deployments

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: computer-vision, machine-learning, object-storage, chatbot, agent-framework, video-processing, image-processing, speech-recognition, tts, llm-inference
- domain: computer-vision, security, privacy, self-hosted, artificial-intelligence
- platform: windows, self-hosted
- tags: ai-camera, nvr, cctv, vlm, face-recognition, object-detection, home-assistant, security-agent, skill-marketplace, local-ai, telegram, discord, slack, home-security, macos, linux, desktop, docker

## Member repositories
- SharpAI/DeepCamera (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.400736+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:30:01.556603+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/SharpAI/DeepCamera (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.400736+00:00, sha bccad1b5e1cd)
  - homepage: http://www.sharpai.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:45:28.456867+00:00, sha 34280c8f5fe0)
  - site_page: https://docs.sharpai.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:45:28.459577+00:00, sha 79e4614e7b0a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.