14manj01/camsentry-mcp

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camsentry-mcp is an unofficial MCP server that gives a local model
eyes on Wyze cameras. A small vision model on your own machine looks at every still your cameras record,
remembers what it saw, and tells you when something matters, by push notification, email or text:
> Person seen at Front Door: A courier in a blue uniform places a box on the step. (10:42 AM)
> Someone is lingering at Back Door: A person has been in view for about 7 minutes. A man stands by the gate. (11:16 PM)
Your chat model can ask it anything: "what happened out back today?", "find the white van",
"tell me if the gate is left open".
> [!NOTE]
> Independent project. camsentry-mcp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Wyze Labs, Inc.
> "Wyze" and "Wyze Cam" are trademarks of Wyze Labs, Inc., used here only to say which cameras this
> software works with.
## Quick start
You need: Python 3.12 – 3.14, a Wyze account, and Ollama. Nothing else:
no Docker, no GPU libraries, no accounts with anyone but Wyze.
sh
pipx install camsentry-mcp # or: uv tool install camsentry-mcp
ollama pull qwen2.5vl:3b # the 3 GB vision model that looks at the stills
camsentry-mcp setup # sign in to Wyze, choose how to be notified
setup asks for your Wyze email, password and a free API key,
exchanges them for session tokens kept in the OS keychain, and discards the password and key.
It then prints the block to paste into your chat app's MCP settings (LM Studio, Jan, Open WebUI via mcpo,
ollmcp, …). There is nothing secret in it and nothing to configure:
json
"mcpServers": {
"camsentry": { "command": "camsentry-mcp" }
The same thing for opencode ( ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json )
json
"mcp": {
"camsentry": { "type": "local", "command": ["camsentry-mcp"], "enabled": true }
That is all. While the chat app runs, the cameras are watched and alerts reach you. To keep watching
when it is closed, run camsentry-mcp autostart on: the watcher then starts in the background each time
you log in (autostart off undoes it). camsentry-mcp watch runs it in a terminal instead.
## What it does
How it compares with what smart-camera services advertise:
| Smart-camera feature | camsentry-mcp |
| Tell people, pets, vehicles and packages apart | ✅ By a local vision model, per still. |
| Alerts that describe what happened | ✅ The local model writes the sentence you receive. |
| Fewer pointless alerts | ✅ One message when something starts, not one per still. Pets and vehicles stay quiet by default. A person is only reported after a second look agrees. Each camera can be told what it may text about. |
| Alerts that understand context | ✅ Person lingering, package gone after someone was there, a person during armed hours. |
| Teach it what to look for | ✅ Watch rules in plain words ("the gate is open"). Approximate: see accuracy. |
| Urgent alerts stand out | ✅ Intruder and package-taken alerts are sent with top priority. |
| Search what the cameras saw in plain words | ✅ "dog in the yard", "white van": over the description of every still. |
| Timeline of the day | ✅ Stills pieced together into visits, with what changed between them. |