Camera Bridge OS beta 0.1.112

Camera Bridge OS beta, build 0.1.112 (amd64).

Beta. Camera Bridge OS runs every day on the reference box (Beelink Mini S, Intel N150, 12 GB) and passes automated tests on virtual machines, including install to a disk, updates and automatic rollback. The interface is still being refined before 1.0. Please report what you find in an issue. Only the two newest beta builds are listed here. Older builds keep their git tags, and their package lists and source offers are kept in the release os-sources.

IPCamera Web cameras sign in, and Jennov cameras keep their DNS

• Cameras with an “IPCamera Web” page (such as the N801B) now sign in: they answer a successful sign-in without a code, which the last build took for an error.
• Jennov and other cameras with the same web page: Watch its internet sets their DNS in the camera’s own network settings, because their ONVIF took the change and later dropped it. A camera that gets its address from DHCP is told how to set Mode Static on its page first (Network › Basic, TCP/IP).

Download camera-bridge-os-0.1.112-amd64.img.xz, check it against .sha256, and write it to a USB stick or SSD with balenaEtcher.
Licenses and source code: SOURCE-OFFER.txt and camera-bridge-os-0.1.112-packages.txt (the exact packages), and docs/linux/LICENSES.md.
Guide: docs/linux/USER-GUIDE.md. Updates inside the running system use SHA256SUMS, SHA256SUMS.sig and the cb-os_* files.

Camera Bridge OS beta 0.1.111

Camera Bridge OS beta, build 0.1.111 (amd64).

Beta. Camera Bridge OS runs every day on the reference box (Beelink Mini S, Intel N150, 12 GB) and passes automated tests on virtual machines, including install to a disk, updates and automatic rollback. The interface is still being refined before 1.0. Please report what you find in an issue. Only the two newest beta builds are listed here. Older builds keep their git tags, and their package lists and source offers are kept in the release os-sources.

The Internet guard on more cameras, and help for what can’t be changed

• Watch its internet now points every DNS server of a camera at Camera Bridge (a camera with two kept the second, such as 8.8.8.8). If a camera keeps one, the step says which.
• A camera whose DNS you point at Camera Bridge yourself counts as watched. Camera Bridge checks every 30 minutes, when a camera comes back online and when you press Check again, and takes a camera off the list when it no longer asks Camera Bridge.
• Reolink: Set up for Camera Bridge now turns UPnP and the cloud (UID) off, takes the time from the bridge and watches the internet, through Reolink’s own settings. With the UID off the Reolink app stops working away from home; doorbell rings still come through Apple Home.
• Cameras with an “IPCamera Web” page (such as the N801B) work fully: Camera Bridge could never sign in to their page before, so their cloud, video password and extra services could not be changed.
• A setting the camera’s account is not allowed to change says so (use an administrator account in the camera’s settings), and the rest of the setup still runs.
• Every step that can’t be done says why and how to change it by hand on that camera.
• “Locked” now only means the camera locked its logins; a short pause by Camera Bridge after a refused password says so, with the time in your time zone.
• Passwords in a camera’s stream address are kept in the secret store, not in the settings file or logs.
• Fixed: a battery camera woken while its last connection was still closing could show no video.

Download camera-bridge-os-0.1.111-amd64.img.xz, check it against .sha256, and write it to a USB stick or SSD with balenaEtcher.
Licenses and source code: SOURCE-OFFER.txt and camera-bridge-os-0.1.111-packages.txt (the exact packages), and docs/linux/LICENSES.md.
Guide: docs/linux/USER-GUIDE.md. Updates inside the running system use SHA256SUMS, SHA256SUMS.sig and the cb-os_* files.

Camera Bridge OS: package lists and source offers

The exact package list and the written source offer of each Camera Bridge OS build that is no longer listed as its own release: camera-bridge-os--packages.txt and camera-bridge-os--SOURCE-OFFER.txt. Each build keeps its git tag.

This is not a download of Camera Bridge OS. To ask for the source code of a version, write to legal@camera-bridge.app and name it.

Archived: Camera Bridge 1.0.1 (Mac)

Archived (October 2026). This is the earlier Camera Bridge for Mac, which is no longer updated. A new Camera Bridge for Mac is coming soon. For now, Camera Bridge OS (beta) is the way to run Camera Bridge: see the newest os-v* release or https://www.camera-bridge.app/download. Copies already installed keep working.

Camera Bridge 1.0.1 is a fix release. It is free for personal use.

Fixed

• Live view stuck on "Loading" in the Home app on the Mac that runs Camera Bridge, while a virtual machine or container tool (OrbStack, Docker Desktop, UTM, Parallels) was running. Home connected over the virtual network that tool creates, and Camera Bridge sent the video from an address that has no route back to the Mac. Camera Bridge now sends from the Mac's own network address when the Home app is on the same Mac.

Live view on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and HomePod is unchanged.

Install

1. Download the DMG.
2. Drag Camera Bridge to Applications.
3. Open it.

Camera Bridge 1.0 updates to 1.0.1 by itself. It needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later. The app is signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Licence

Camera Bridge is free and source-available under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. Commercial use needs a licence: legal@camera-bridge.app. Third-party notices are in NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.

Archived: Camera Bridge 1.0 (Mac)

Archived (October 2026). This is the earlier Camera Bridge for Mac, which is no longer updated. A new Camera Bridge for Mac is coming soon. For now, Camera Bridge OS (beta) is the way to run Camera Bridge: see the newest os-v* release or https://www.camera-bridge.app/download. Copies already installed keep working.

Camera Bridge 1.0 is the first public release. It is free for personal use.

Camera Bridge runs on your Mac and puts your IP cameras in Apple Home, with HomeKit Secure Video recording, live view, motion and doorbell events. You don't need an NVR: plug in ONVIF or RTSP cameras and Apple Home records them.

Highlights

• Cameras: ONVIF and RTSP cameras, with camera events from Hikvision, Reolink, Tapo, Amcrest/Dahua and DoorBird.
• Integrations: UniFi Protect (API key). Google Nest (Device Access). Ring, Tuya and Wyze through the bundled go2rtc helper. A Wyze v3/Pan v3 RTSP preset.
• Motion: built-in motion detection for cameras that send no events.
• Live view: hardened for Macs on two networks and for VPNs, with self-recovery when a stream stalls.
• Updates: automatic, through Sparkle.

Install

1. Download the DMG.
2. Drag Camera Bridge to Applications.
3. Open it.

It needs macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later. The app is signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Licence

Camera Bridge is free and source-available under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. Commercial use needs a licence: legal@camera-bridge.app. Third-party notices are in NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.

Camera Bridge OS 0.1

Camera Bridge OS 0.1 (amd64).

Pre-release. This image builds and boots in automated tests on virtual machines (Intel and ARM), including first start, install to a second disk, updates and automatic rollback. It has not been tried on real hardware yet: USB boot, hardware video encoding and pairing with the Home app on a real box are still to be confirmed. Please report what you find in an issue.

Download camera-bridge-os-0.1-amd64.img.xz, check it against .sha256, and write it to a USB stick or SSD with balenaEtcher.
Guide: docs/linux/USER-GUIDE.md. Updates inside the running system use SHA256SUMS, SHA256SUMS.sig and the cb-os_* files.

Superseded by 0.1.1, which adds the license notices, the written source offer and the package list for the GPL parts of the system. Use 0.1.1.