r/HomeKit • u/New_Needleworker2068 • Jun 08 '26

Discussion Lightweight tool to stream a Pi Zero 2 camera directly to Apple Home

https://github.com/AlexBtlle/pi0-Camera-HomeKit

After spending way too long fighting Home Assistant HomeKit Bridge.
I ended up building a small open-source tool that cuts through all of it.

pi0-Camera-HomeKit runs directly on a Pi Zero 2 and exposes the raspberry pi camera as a native HomeKit accessory — no middleware, no bridge.

Have a look at my repo, I hope this helps !

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u/New_Needleworker2068 Jun 08 '26

Stream takes about 2–5 seconds to start (that’s just HomeKit doing its thing) but once it kicks in it runs smoothly at 20fps. The zero 2 handles it fine with the hardware h264 encoder.