LensCast
raulshma/lenscast
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Turns your Android device into a networked camera station with professional controls, remote web access, interval photography, and scheduled recording.
LensCast turns your Android device into a networked camera station with professional controls, remote web access, interval photography, and scheduled recording.
Camera • Live preview with a professional quick settings bar • Manual controls: exposure compensation, ISO, white balance, focus mode, zoom • Multi-lens support (ultra-wide, wide, telephoto) with runtime lens switching • HDR, image stabilization, resolution up to 4K, frame rate 15–60 fps • Photo capture and video recording • Night vision / IR mode, scene modes, manual focus distance, color temperature
Live streaming • Real-time MJPEG video streaming to any web browser on the same network • Low-latency in-browser playback (WebCodecs over WebSocket) with automatic fallback to MJPEG and HLS • RTSP streaming with AAC audio and H.264/H.265 video at 480p/720p/1080p for VLC, OBS, and NVRs • ONVIF Profile S device service (off by default) so NVRs such as Home Assistant can discover the camera • HTTPS mode with a self-signed on-device certificate
Web dashboard • Watch the live stream, browse and download photos and recordings • Full remote control of camera and stream settings • Optional password authentication
Automation • Object detection gate (optional): the open-source EfficientDet-Lite0 model — Apache-2.0, downloaded on demand with a pinned SHA-256 from TensorFlow's official hosting — triggers MQTT alerts or recording when configured objects appear • Sound-event gate (optional): the open-source YAMNet model — Apache-2.0, also downloaded on demand with a pinned SHA-256 — triggers alerts or recording when configured sounds are detected • Interval photography and scheduled or continuous recording • Quiet hours for notifications
Optional network services (all off by default; each runs only when you enable and configure it) • Telegram backup: auto-uploads new captures to the Telegram chat you choose (api.telegram.org) • Web Push notifications: delivers encrypted detection alerts through your browser vendor's push service (such as Google's FCM or Mozilla's autopush) • Model downloads: the optional detection models above are fetched on demand from TensorFlow's official hosting on Google Cloud storage • STUN server for WebRTC streaming (WHIP push / WHEP viewing): blank by default, so streaming stays on your local network without contacting any third-party server
No ads, no tracking, no cloud defaults. All processing stays on your device; the web dashboard is served by a built-in HTTP server on your local network.
Note: the F-Droid build ships without the in-app self-updater; updates come from F-Droid.
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Uses the camera to capture photos and video, records audio for streaming, reads location to tag media with GPS coordinates, and can install downloaded update packages.
Permissions
Coarse locationCameraNotificationsFilesPhotos and mediaMicrophoneAlways runningInstall apps What they allowShow less
- Coarse location ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION See your approximate location To read the last known location for geotagging.
- Camera CAMERA Take photos and record video To take pictures and record video.
- Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS Send you notifications
- Files READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE Read files on this phone
- Photos and media READ_MEDIA_IMAGES Read your photos, videos and music
- Microphone RECORD_AUDIO Record audio To capture sound for live streams.
- Always running REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS Keep running in the background without limits
- Install apps REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES Install other apps To install downloaded app updates.
Release notes
Since 0.1.9: • Automation: new if/then rules engine — up to 16 rules, each running up to 8 actions (camera settings, torch, stream, recording, siren, detection toggles) without touching the phone • Automation: event triggers and ONLY WHEN conditions — rules fire on motion, sound, tamper, power and streaming edges, gated by conditions like charging, Wi-Fi, a time window or streaming active, combinable ALL/ANY • Automation: time-of-day rules gain boot catch-up, fire history, per-rule cooldowns, and a per-rule missed-run policy (catch up, skip, or fire within a window after the scheduled moment) • Automation: redesigned automation screen — structured rule cards with WHEN / ONLY WHEN / THEN summaries, a fuller editor with grouped pickers, reorderable conditions and actions, live rule preview, a discard guard and a rotation-proof draft • Background: new Keep Awake setting (on by default) holds a wake lock while the app runs, so a mounted security phone keeps firing rules after the screen locks — quitting the app releases it • Streaming fix: the session wake lock is now renewed during long streams, so a locked phone no longer goes dark after the first streaming hour • Under the hood: nine modules refactored behind seams (push transports, web transport, detection alert sinks, settings credentials, camera policies) with no user-visible behavior change
Full Changelog: https://github.com/raulshma/lenscast/compare/v0.1.9...v0.2.0
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