Skyview — Home Camera Hub

Self-hosted camera recording & AI analysis. Ultra-low-latency live view, real-time detection overlay, smart event search & AI summaries — your data, your storage.

Skyview is a viewer and management app for home and small-business cameras. It pairs with a Skyview server you run yourself, and is designed for IP cameras that speak the RTSP / ONVIF standard.

— What this is — Skyview is NOT a public cloud service and does not connect your cameras to the internet for you. You first set up the Skyview server on a PC, NAS, or mini-PC at home, attach your cameras to it, and then use this app on iPhone / iPad to view and manage everything. All video and events stay on your own hardware — nothing is uploaded to any third-party cloud.

— Features —

LIVE VIEW • Grid dashboard with live thumbnails of every camera at a glance • Tap any camera for full-screen view; low-latency WebRTC by default, with automatic fallback to HLS on weaker networks • Two-way talk (push-to-talk) for talking with family or warning off strangers • PTZ control: pan, tilt, zoom, and preset recall on supported cameras

TIMELINE PLAYBACK • Smooth, second-precision timeline scrubbing • Variable-speed playback, jump to any moment • Highlights segments that contain events or recorded footage • Save clips to your iPhone's Photos library

AI EVENTS & ALERTS Powered by the detection pipeline on your server, the app receives and displays: • Motion, person, vehicle, and pet detection • Face recognition (enroll family members in-app; get a separate alert for unknown faces) • License-plate recognition • Fall detection (helpful for homes with elderly family members) • Custom detection zones, sensitivity, and quiet hours Push notifications arrive on iPhone the moment an event fires; tap to jump straight to the moment in the recording.

EVENT CENTER • Reverse-chronological event feed with thumbnails and type tags • Filter by camera, event type, and time range • Jump directly to the recorded video at the event's timestamp

USERS & SHARING • Multiple accounts can sign in to the same server • Admins create standard users and limit which cameras they see • Change password, sign out, and switch servers from inside the app

RECORDING & STORAGE • Server records each camera in segments; the app shows free space and retention days per camera • Direct playback links with seek and speed control

VOICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (Optional) • If you enable server-side automation, cameras can speak a phrase out loud when an event triggers (for example, "Unknown visitor detected — owner has been notified"), turning monitoring into active deterrence.

— What you'll need —

1. An RTSP / ONVIF compatible IP camera (most home IPCs qualify)
2. An always-on PC, NAS, or mini-PC to run the Skyview server
3. After the one-time server setup, enter your server address in this app and sign in.

Cameras that use proprietary protocols (Tapo, Mi Home, Wyze, etc.) need to be bridged to RTSP first using a tool such as go2rtc.

— Privacy — • All video, recordings, and AI results live on YOUR server • Push notifications carry only event type and camera name — no imagery is sent through Apple's push pipeline • The app collects no analytics, contains no third-party tracking SDKs

— About offline use — This app depends on your home server. If the server is offline or unreachable, live and recorded video are not available. Run the server on hardware that stays on 24/7, and configure a stable remote-access method on your home network (see the server documentation for details).

Questions or feedback? Reach us from Settings → About inside the app.

Privacy Policy: https://yun-kan.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://yun-kan.com/terms