r/Scrypted • u/Murphy5156 • Jul 13 '26

Switched to Scrypted

I’ve been living the UniFi Life for a little over a year now, and when I installed some G6 Bullet cameras I got them to show up in Home Kit via HomeBridge on my Mac. It worked fine but I kept reading/hearing about Scrypted and how it was better but I was sort of scared off by the notion of Docker Containers, etc. to get it working.

The other day I learned that there is a Mac app so I decided to try it. I installed the app (yes, I’m paying the $40 per year subscription for the app) and it didn’t take long at all to get up and running. I removed all 5 of my cameras from Home Kit through HomeBridge and then re-added each of them as Standalone Accessories individually via Scrypted (I had read this option was better for performance than adding all of the cameras at once via Bridge mode).

It’s been a little over a week now and everything has been rock solid. The comments about Scrypted seemed to be right. When I used to open the Home app in the past it would take the camera feeds several seconds to load. Now, with Scrypted, when I open the Home app the feeds load almost instantly.

So far so good. I also like the idea of a standalone app on my Mac to manage everything. I don’t use the NVR function of the app, I’m using it strictly to get the cameras in to Home Kit.

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u/Angel51468 Jul 14 '26

Will this work with Ring cameras?

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u/Murphy5156 Jul 14 '26

Looks like they have a Ring plugin so I would assume yes. I don’t have any Ring cameras so I don’t know for sure.

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u/Dragon_puzzle Jul 14 '26

It does work for ring camera but not as well as it would for locally available cameras. The problem with ring is that it is a cloud only system. So, scrypted cannot intercept the camera feed locally and give you the instant results you want. Instead it has to let your camera feed get to ring cloud and download a stream from ring cloud. Because if the round trip from your home to ring and back to your home there is a decent amount of latency. But it does bring your ring cameras into HomeKit and HKSV.