Ringless is a self-hosted solution for managing Ring camera captures. Hooks into motion detected events emitted by the Ring API and records while there is a person in the frame.
- Self-hosted data storage: Keep your own local copies of camera footage.
- High signal, low noise: Only saves footage when a person is in the camera view.
- Customizable Capture Settings: Adjust resolution, frame rate, and recording duration to suit your needs.
- Intuitive Timeline View: Easily access and review captured footage through a user-friendly web interface.
Consists of two services: (1) the monitor daemon (client), which connects the to the camera livestream, performs person detection, and saves videos to disk. The web server is a minimal timeline app for accessing camera footage. Each service runs as a separate process. Each capture will show up as an event on the timeline, and clicking the event will play that video.
Requires NodeJS 18+. Run npm i in both the client and server directories.
Ringless uses OpenCV for real-time person detection. When building the client, npm i will not be enough to bootstrap all the dependencies. You will also need to install OpenCV and generate node-gyp bindings so that NodeJS knows how to call OpenCV functions. Detailed installation instructions can be found here. opencv4nodejs supports both local installations and system-wide installations. I recommend installing OpenCV system-wide and following the instructions where autobuild is disabled.
Follow these instructions to get a Ring OAuth token. It is necessary for the monitor service to authenticate with Ring servers to listen for events and get a video stream.
Create a .env file in the project root. This same environment variables are shared by both the monitor service and the web server.
RING_REFRESH_TOKEN=<Required|Token from Ring API>
CAPTURE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=<Optional|Default $PROJECT_ROOT/server/captures
PORT=<Optional|Default "3000">
RESOLUTION=<Optional|Default "1920x1080">
FRAMES_PER_SECOND=<Optional|Default "9">
RECORD_SECONDS_AFTER_MOTION=<Optional|Default "4">
$ node client/monitor.js
$ node server/serve.js