Smart guardian
for what matters
SkyView is a self-hosted video management system (VMS) and software NVR. Live view, AI recognition and timeline replay—everything stays under your roof.
- 30+
- Camera brands supported
- 5
- AI recognition models
- 3
- Android · iOS · Web
Live monitoring
Multi-stream
Low-latency multi-stream preview with PTZ control and status at a glance
Multi-stream view
See every camera at once
PTZ control
Pan, tilt and zoom from any device
Device overview
Real-time health for every camera
Low-latency A/V
WebRTC-grade smoothness
AI
Event Center
Detect what matters and trace it back in seconds
Multi-class detection
People, vehicles, pets and abnormal motion
Event timeline
Browse every triggered event
Full event detail
Time, location, device and class in one view
Triage in one click
Mark, archive or jump—all instant
Timeline
Recording replay
Locate any moment by time or event in seconds
Precise timeline scrub
Drag-to-jump, frame-accurate
Event markers
Key moments highlighted on track
Speed control
0.5× / 1× / 2× / 4× playback
Event recall
One click jumps to trigger time
Smart linking
Automation
Template-driven flows turn every alert into an actionable workflow
Template-first
Pick a template and you're done
Multi-condition triggers
Time, event, location—mix freely
Cross-device chaining
Devices respond as one
Webhook extension
Hook into anything via webhook
AI Agent
Natural-language control
Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes and other AI agents — just speak: "show me the living room", "pan the garage cam left", "announce 'package at the door' through the porch cam".
Agent-agnostic
Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes — pick what you have
AI sees the frame
Snapshot → multimodal vision → described back to you
Long-lived API tokens
Issue & revoke from Web Admin in one click
Full surface area
View, search events, PTZ, TTS announce, onboard cameras
Natural Language Video Search
Local VLM · No API key · Fully offline — ask your recordings in plain English
- On-device multimodal vision model + bilingual vector index — frames never leave your hardware
- Auto-generated text summaries on every event; semantic search across English and Chinese in seconds
- Zero OpenAI / Gemini / Claude API key — no per-query cost, works offline
"Was someone at the front door Wednesday afternoon?"
"When did the red sedan last enter the garage?"
"Did the baby cry last night?"
AI Scene Understanding
Every event gets a plain-language summary — your event list finally reads like English
- Local VLM writes captions like "a courier left a package by the right side of the door"
- Bilingual vector index — cross-language semantic search out of the box
- 100% local inference, no cloud calls, no API cost, no data leaves the box
SkyView vs Frigate · BlueIris · Shinobi · Scrypted
The self-hosted AI NVR with native mobile apps and on-device VLM — out of the box
| Dimension | SkyView | Frigate | BlueIris | Shinobi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native i18n (EN / ZH / JA) | 4 languages | community | — | community |
| First-party Android / iOS app | both, official | third-party | iOS only | third-party |
| On-device VLM scene understanding | built-in | needs OpenAI | — | — |
| Natural language video search | local · bilingual | Semantic Search beta | — | — |
| Home Assistant + MQTT | native | native | plugin | partial |
| Two-way audio (ONVIF backchannel) | yes | — | yes | — |
Want the full side-by-side breakdown?
Comparison provided for reference only; open-source projects evolve — check each project's official docs for the latest.
Ready to take control of your cameras?
SkyView is live — fully local, self-hosted, licensed per household with unlimited cameras.