Perfection is achieved...

[Olivierbkk]

...not when there is nothing else to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

I am only using this plugin to display cameras from my CCTV system (that is already recording 20/7 on a NVR) to the apple home app.

I know that I could use the FFmpeg plugin but after testing I found the camera UI plugin is using less CPU and image quality is better - I don't know why or even if it's true.

Is there a degraded mode that only ports camera to homekit without all the bells and whistles?

[mkz212]

Important

🚀 New Version in Development 🚀

A new version of camera.ui is currently under active development - in progress are advanced works on the alpha version and the public beta will be available soon.

Stay tuned for exciting updates:
seydx/camera.ui#448

Caution

This version will not be developed, current bugs will not be fixed and new features will not be introduced.

[Olivierbkk]

sounds exciting indeed! it would be great if in the new version, one can choose how much features he wants to use.

I have been enjoying your plugin and I must say it is very reliable, which in this worls is the most important feature... bravo!

[mkz212]

It is not my plugin. seydx is the author. You can test new version - you can install it next to Homebridge, so you can have old version and new version at the same time. And yes - in new version you can install only these plugins that you want. HomeKit works much much better. But at this time there is no local recordings yet.

[Olivierbkk]

Thanks but I'll wait for the next version to be released. The current version is working very well for me. I have a RPi 3 with two cameras and using about 5% CPU only. I Hope the next version will still work on my config and not add CPU load.

[Olivierbkk]

The one big feature that could be added in the new version is H.265+ support.

[mkz212]

The one big feature that could be added in the new version is H.265+ support.

New version support h265 and much more. But HomeKit support only h264 so every stream other than h264 is transcoded to h264 in HomeKit.