DeepCamera

DeepCamera is SharpAI's open source platform for adding AI to home and small business security cameras, and its desktop companion, SharpAI Aegis, is now the main way to use it. Aegis watches feeds from Ring, Blink and RTSP or ONVIF cameras, recognizes household members, flags strangers and answers plain English questions about what happened, returning timestamped answers such as when a package was delivered instead of a list of motion alerts. It is aimed at people who want camera intelligence without a cloud subscription. Every clip is stored on the user's own Mac, Windows or Linux machine and lands on a single timeline across all cameras, where the AI summarizes each clip in the background. A detection studio shows YOLO object detection live across 80 object types. Vision and language models can run locally from Hugging Face, including Qwen, DeepSeek, SmolVLM and LLaVA, or users can bring their own API key for cloud models from OpenAI, Google or Anthropic. Alerts go out through Slack, Discord and Telegram, and the open source side offers a catalog of pluggable skills covering detection, analysis, privacy transforms such as depth map anonymization, and a benchmark suite for home security tasks. No pricing is published. The DeepCamera skills are open source on GitHub, Aegis is offered as a free download, and the site emphasizes that there is no cloud subscription; cloud model usage is paid directly to the provider through the user's own key. The project began as a facial recognition and surveillance toolkit and has pivoted toward an agent style assistant under the Aegis name, which is why the listed website now opens on Aegis.