GitHub - AlexBtlle/pi4-IA-Homekit-Camera: Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W or Pi 3 - 4 into a native Apple HomeKit camera with motion detection.
A while back I posted about pi0-Camera-HomeKit, a little HomeKit camera I put together on a Raspberry Pi. A bunch of you were into it, and it gave me the itch to take it further. So here’s the follow-up, rebuilt from the ground up and directly inspired by that first project: a proper HomeKit Secure Video camera.
I’m personally running it on a Pi Zero 2 W (yep, the 512 MB, no-heatsink, “please don’t ask too much of me” board) and honestly it holds up way better than I expected.
What it does:
• Full HomeKit Secure Video: live stream, snapshots, motion sensor, and event recording to iCloud
• Motion detection runs on a low-res stream (OpenCV MOG2); the People / Animals / Vehicles classification is handed off to the Apple TV / HomePod, no heavy AI model running on the Pi
• IR night vision (beta), full-FOV sensor modes, and image controls, all driven by a single config file.
The thing I’m honestly kind of proud of: the live view is about as snappy as a commercial camera that costs 4× as much, and detection catches both people and my cat 🐈
It’s fully open source.
Happy to answer any questions, and feedback’s very welcome 👍