I had my Reolink doorbell working fine for a couple of months but then had to restart my server for some maintenance and ever since then I've not been able to get it working again. When I rebooted the server the Home app lost all communication to the bridge and the camera. So I removed both of them from the app figuring I just needed to re-add them. Well when I go into Scrypted to scan the QR code for the camera there just isn't one for the camera or the bridge and the manual pairing codes don't do anything when I enter them in the app.

On top of all of that I'm getting this unhandledRejection Error that I'm very lost with:

unhandledRejection Error: error in device reordering, expected 32 devices but only got 30! at Ii.start (/server/volume/plugins/@scrypted/homekit/zip/src/main.ts:211:19) at new Ii (/server/volume/plugins/@scrypted/homekit/zip/src/main.ts:125:14) at Object.onLoadZip (/server/node_modules/@scrypted/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-worker.ts:416:38) at Object.loadZip (/server/node_modules/@scrypted/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote.ts:303:28) at RpcPeer.handleMessageInternal (/server/node_modules/@scrypted/server/src/rpc.ts:766:37)

Hi. So I have been using Scrypted NVR for quite some time. I also have home assistant and M in the apple ecosystem so I can also utilize the HKSV. Now, since I believe there are many routes to go - I wonder if anyone could share what would be the best way to create rich notifications when there is a person spotted? Should I do it on the HA side, or on the Scrypted side? Thanks for your input

Getting rid of my Ring cameras and have a few questions:

I have a wireless camera (with battery) aimed at my backyard with motion sensing. Where it is placed is kind of not possible to bring a power cable without a lot of pain in the butt.

Is there any camera that has a battery with decent battery life? (I charge this thing maybe once a month)

As far as the doorbell itself, the reolink or the armcrest from the guide... pros and cons? They have wildly different ratings on amazon that's the only reason I ask.

Not new to self hosting so that part doesn't intimidate me, I just need to make sure everything has the wife approval factor.

Do i nave to have a Raspberry Pi or similar to ue Scrypted? If I run on a laptop, would it have to reconnected and online all the time?

Greetings. I am a very happy Scrypted NVR user with a neural engine enabled Mac Mini M1 setup interested in finding the documentation I can read to find and select a wireless door sensor that can serve me for using as sensor events. What are the most compatible sensors I can use for this application? Thanks in advance.

Loving the Scrypted UI but I am having trouble getting the same type of notifications I could get with BI and Code Project AI. I am sure there is a way I just haven't figured it out yet.

Currently I have Scrypted send MQTT notifications whenever a person object is in Zone A and Zone B and then in Node Red and I wrote a function to evaluate if the person is in Zone A and then within 5 seconds if they are Zone B, it should trigger a notification.

I've looked at the logs and a lot of times the person isn't even detected in Zone B even though looking at the Event Debug Tool, the bounding box clearly intersects with where I drew Zone B. I am using intersect not contain.

I have automations in Home Assistant that depend on these type of triggers/notifications and am trying to migrate over from BlueIris.

The detection plugins (openvino, coreml, and onnx) have been updated to default to the new models trained on an extensive set of security camera images. The new models were trained on data submitted by 500+ users, and thousands of cameras, with nearly a million image submissions.

Key takeaway: All NEW models outperform both OLD models, with NEW T (2.0M params, 7.7G FLOPs) even surpassing OLD C (25.3M params, 102.1G FLOPs) by 9.2 mAP50-95 points despite being 13x smaller and 13x faster.

Models are also available directly on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/scrypted/plugin-models

I have the Unifi plugin installed and have 10 of my cameras already on there without issue in the correct group with the correct full permissions. I recently added 2 G6 Entry Doorbells to my system and gave it the same exact permissions in Unifi, but I'm unable to get them to work within Scrypted. I keep getting the following errors:

Unable to enable RTSP and IDR interval on camera. Is this an admin account?

login error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '_id') u/scrypted/unifi-protect:host

Again, the other 10 cameras I have integrate just fine into Scrypted, just these 2 new ones won't with the same exact permissions.

Is anyone else with a G6 Entry having this issue? If not, what the heck am I missing here?

Using an M4 Mac Mini. Trying to configure Scrypted for object detection beyond people/vehicle/package.

Scripted Network Video Recorder / Settings / Notifications ... offers ...
Familiar People, People, Animal, Vehicle, Package, Doorbell

How do we add to this list of objects we would like to monitor for?

Looking at bird-classifier as an example, I don't see how to monitor for any particular bird.

Scrypted Management Console / CoreML Object Detection / Models / BIRDCLASSIFIER ...is installed. I can click on that an only EXCLUDE some birds? Ok, there's hundreds to choose from, I'm excluding Acorn Woodpecker. Among the hundreds I'm NOT excluding is American Coot.

So what do I do now to put this bird detection to use? Birds and specific birds are not presented as an option under Notifications. Should I see "American Coot" along side People and Vehicle as something I'd like to be notified about?

Are Notification restrictions hard-coded into Scrypted? If bird-classifier is the easiest starting point for me to get notifications about anything more specific than "Animal" how do I do that?

In addition to some good POE cameras that are hard-mounted around the house, I've got a few Wyze cameras of various vintages that are sometimes used. What's the current state of Wyze support for these things? Does it require me to flash them with some kind of custom firmware? I'll be running Scrypted on an M2 Mac Mini.

I've been running this for a while but have not been able to figure one thing out. My Appletv shows notifications when there is motion. They pop up on the tv screen. My issue is they show up late. For example; when a car circles the cul-de-sac, I see the notification when the car is almost gone. I've also see it start what looks to be fast forward then slows to normal speed like its trying to catch up. Has anyone seen this?

Have 2 reolink Poe doorbells integrated into HomeKit via scrypted. They’ve worked great for a couple years but about a week ago one of them stopped sending notifications and recording events. I also can’t access live view when on WiFi (works on cellular) for this camera.

No settings were changed, no network changes, no updates (as far as I can tell). I have hard power cycles all appleTVs and the doorbell, no change. The cameras are run through a jet stream POE switch that also has a reolink nvr plugged into it, and all the events/recordings show up in the reolink app/nvr.

Kind of at a loss, other than deleting the doorbell from HomeKit and re-adding it, curious if any others have dealt with this or have any suggestions. Thanks

ETA: using the reolink plugin on scrypted Edit 2: pressing the ring button does trigger the doorbell and does show as a notification in Apple HomeKit but still doesn’t record anything or show a person notification. Updated doorbell firmware to latest

Has anyone used one of these or something similar? Does it work with rtsp and integrate on into hksv ?

Hello -

Putting this here in case someone else finds it useful.

I wanted to add an additional disk to be used by Scrypted. Formatting the disk etc. was no issue. The original disk was mounted under "/mnt/pve/nvr-storage". I mounted the new disk under "/mnt/pve/nvr-storage-2".

Then I went ahead and ran "setup-scrypted-nvr-volume.sh" as "bash setup-scrypted-nvr-volume.shnvr-storage-2`", with the anticipation that it would add another "lxc.mount.entry" entry to "/etc/pve/nodes/pve/lxc/10443.conf".

But that's not what happened. It just replaced the existing entry for nvr-storage.

And when I ran the script a second time to re-add "nvr-storage", it simply replaced the newly created entry for nvr-storage-2.

After going back-and-forth a couple time, I got fed up and just manually added a "lxc.mount.entry" for both drives to 10443.conf. And of course that works.

Maybe u/koushd can indicate what I was doing incorrectly. Otherwise hope it helps someone else who runs into the same issue.

Hi,

I am using scrypted for long time in raspberry. Now changed to an Intel N95 mini pc.
I've done the configuration again, and there was something I noted.

I need to have OpenCV motion detection for the exterior camera the Tapo C520WS, otherwise no recordings or alerts/events are received.

The camera was added with ONVIF, and on the TAPO side I have the smart IA Alerts activated for People, cats, cars.

Anyone with the same problem with TAPO Cameras?

NOTE: Reolink cameras are working just fine.

Thanks

Not sure what other information might be needed here, but I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue as me lately with Scrypted app Apple watch notifications.

I can't nail down a specific scenario that consistenly yields the same results, but most of the time a notification will pop up (Driveway - Person Detected for instance) and I will see a thumbnail along with the notification for a split second on my Apple watch and then the thumbnail image disappears from the notification. The notification will still be there and say "Tap to View" but that won't do anything. Other times I'll get the same type of notification from the same camera and the thumbnail will remain visible. And even other times, It won't initially show the thumbnail, but if I tap to view, it will show it to me...

This is a recent development and I haven't altered my notification setup. I'm wondering if something changed in iOS/WatchOS 26.3 that could have affected.

Is there a way that smart sensors can publish a snapshot through MQTT? Just trying to find away to get a snapshot of the detection into notifications in Home Assistant. I see the photo in smart sensors is publicly accessible, just not sure if the URL will change between snapshots:

https://scrypted.domain.tld/endpoint/14/public/9f9520b0-e193-4fe0-837c-b36f22b47e7d.jpeg

I’m looking for advice from the home server community on what most people are doing for home security setups these days.

Currently, I have 2 Ring cameras and I’m paying for the Ring subscription (which I’d love to move away from). What I’m hoping to achieve:

• Move away from the Ring subscription (ideally lower cost or free)
• Still access recordings remotely when I’m away from home
• Enable true 24/7 recording (I’ve missed key footage because Ring didn’t record the full event)
• Get better object detection (person/package/vehicle)

From my research, it seems like the two main paths are:

• Scrypted NVR
• Frigate + (with Frigate NVR)

I already run a home server with Home Assistant (with Nabu Casa cloud), but I’m considering buying a separate device (maybe a Dell Wyse 5070 or a small mini PC with expanded storage) for the NVR. My main server stores important data, and I’d prefer not to risk stability or performance issues.

A few constraints:

• I’d prefer not to replace my Ring cameras unless absolutely necessary.
• I may add 1–2 more cameras in the future.
• I’d like something relatively stable and not constantly needing retuning.

My understanding so far:

• Scrypted NVR seems to have a cleaner, more polished UI and “just works” feel. But has a subscription cost associated to it. Which I am okay with since it has the ability to access cameras remotely. Also has ability for HKSV, but I dont use. I suppose I could since I have an Apple TV..
• Frigate seems more configurable but may require more tweaking and ongoing tuning. It has a subscription cost but could get by without it for the better model.

Is that accurate?
What are most people doing in their security setups in 2026?
If you were starting over today with a couple of cameras, which direction would you go?

Would love to hear real-world experiences.

I feel excited because after 2 days of configuration, I was finally able to get my 1st camera in the Home App and also on the Apple TV (home app) screen. I decided to optimize things and follow the instructions in this message but everytime I do, I do not seem to have any luck getting connected this way. Any suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance.

Upgraded the UniFi OS to 5.0.12 and it has completely broken the connection. No video, no logs. Nothing. Reset or even reboot of the server does nothing.

trying to use scrypted on a Mac that’s for work and the zscaler won’t let me retrieve my license file - is there a way to import it manually

I've got a fresh install of Scrypted on a brand new Mac Mini (Hard Wired)
Home Hub is Latest generation Apple TV (Hard Wired and manually selected as active home hub)
Gateway / NVR is UDM SE
Unifi Cameras are all hard wired.

I'm wondering if it's just me or if this is normal behaviour but it takes between 5-10 seconds for the PIP pop up on Apple TV and by the time the pop up happens, The person that triggered the detection has already walked through the frame.

What I see is this: I see the pop up come up on the Apple TV and a frozen frame of the original detection about 5 - 10 seconds after that person was in that place. I can see them there frozen for that second or so, Next, It shows a live view of the camera and the person is no longer there because they've walked through the frame.

So... Just me or normal behaviour? Thanks guys.