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Turn your Android phone into an MJPEG IP camera with a built-in web server. Stream to browsers, video apps, or Home Assistant over HTTPS with automatic TLS certificates. Version 0.9.0 adds local MP4 recording, optional start on boot, and a raw audio endpoint. Includes remote controls for camera settings, password protection, and display-off streaming to reduce heat.
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About this app
An Android MJPEG IP Camera app
Features 🌎 Built in server, just open the video stream in a web browser, video app or even set it as a Home Assistant MJPEG IP Camera (using https://<ip_address>:4444/stream) 📴 Option to turn the display off while streaming 🤳 Switch between the main or selfie camera 🎛️ Remote web interface with controls for camera section, image rotation, audio/video sync, flash light toggle, resolution, zoom, exposure and contrast 🖼️ Choose between different image quality settings and frame rates (to help reduce phone over heating) 🛂 Username and password protection 🔐 Automatic TLS certificate support to protect stream and login details via HTTPS
⚠️ Warning If you are planning to run this 24/7, please make sure that your phone does not stay at 100% charge. Doing so may damage the battery and cause it to swell up, which could cause it to explode.
Some models include an option to only charge to 80%, make sure this is enabled where possible.
Note: running at a higher image quality may cause some phones to over heat, which can also damage the battery.
HTTPS/TLS certificates To protect the stream and the password from being sent in plain-text over HTTP, a certificate can be used to start the stream over HTTPS.
The app will automatically generate a self-signed certificate on first launch, but if you have your own domain you can use Let's Encrypt to generate a trusted certificate and skip the self-signed security warning message, by changing the TLS certificate in the settings.
To generate a new self-signed certificate, clear the app settings and restart or clone this repo and run ./scripts/generate-certificate.sh then use the certificate personal_certificate.p12 file it generates.
🎯 Project author:github@DigitallyRefined
What's new
- ・Add local MP4 recording support by @H3X3R in #66 ・Add optional start on boot by @gilcu2 in #67 ・Add raw audio endpoint by @oliverstickel in #62 ・Fix Android API 25 support by @DigitallyRefined in #63 ・Bump actions/setup-java from 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #68
- New Contributors ・@H3X3R made their first contribution in #66 ・@gilcu2 made their first contribution in #67 ・@oliverstickel made their first contribution in #61
About this version
- Version
- 0.9.0 (90)
- Size
- 4.86 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 23
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2026
- Package
- com.github.digitallyrefined.androidipcamera
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