Records without re-encoding
H.264/H.265 from any RTSP camera, stored as sent. Retention in days. Playback and export via Frigate.
Open source · Raspberry Pi 5 · MIT
Your cameras record. Atmovio watches the sky.
A home video recorder for IP cameras on a Raspberry Pi 5 – plus an AI that alerts you to red sunsets, shelf clouds, mammatus, rainbows or lightning while they are happening.
Free. Recording works offline. AI runs on the free tier of Google Gemini.
- REST API
- Home Assistant
- Webhook
- Open source · MIT
Five questions, then a web page
The installer asks what it needs. Everything else is one admin page in plain language.
Video stays home
Recordings never leave the Pi. Only single snapshots go to the AI.
API · Home Assistant · webhook
Everything Atmovio knows is available as JSON. Ready-made YAML for Home Assistant, PHP examples, push to your own website.
One-click updates
New releases appear in the admin. Backup and rollback are automatic.
What it does
Finds your cameras
ONVIF discovery and port scan. Every stream is verified for real frames before it is saved. Remote cameras over WireGuard.
Watches the sky
A snapshot goes to a vision model every few minutes. Score 0–10 and the phenomena it sees. Dark and unchanged frames are skipped.
Alerts, not spam
E-mail or webhook with the picture. One alert per episode – a 40-minute sunset is one message. Outages are reported too.
Cuts the clip for you
Automatically after an alert, or by hand around any detection. Browser playback up to 120×, MP4 download, timelapse.
Looks after itself
Disk health in plain words. Storage guard when the drive disappears. Logs with search.
How the AI sky watching works
Nothing runs on the Pi. One JPEG goes to a hosted vision model with one question: how interesting is this sky, and which of these phenomena do you see?
- 1
Dawn to dusk
One frame per camera every few minutes, more often around sunrise and sunset.
- 2
Only useful frames
Dark or unchanged frames never reach the model.
- 3
Score and phenomena
The model answers with a 0–10 score, what it sees and one sentence why.
- 4
One alert per episode
Above your threshold you get one message, not ten.
Providers
- Google Geminifree tier, default
- Groq · OpenRouterfree models
- OpenAI · Anthropicpaid, most accurate
- Ollama on the Pioffline, slower
Phenomena
- Red sky
- Shelf cloud
- Mammatus
- Altocumulus
- Thunderstorm
- Lightning
- Rainbow
- Halo
- Crepuscular rays
- Lenticular clouds
- Fog
- Funnel cloud
- Wall cloud
- Roll cloud
- Asperitas
- Hail core
- Shower
- Virga
- Heavy rain
- Snowfall
- Other
The admin
Hardware
Raspberry Pi 5 only. Four to six cameras are fine.
| Board | Raspberry Pi 5, 4 GB min., 8 GB recommended |
|---|---|
| System | Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit on SSD or SD card |
| Recordings | USB 3 hard drive. Mbit/s of all cameras × 10.8 ≈ GB per day |
| Power | Official 27 W supply, active cooler |
| Network | Wired Ethernet. Remote cameras over WireGuard |
| Cameras | Any RTSP camera (H.264/H.265), ONVIF preferred |
Install
Flash Raspberry Pi OS Lite, plug in the drive, run the two lines on the right on the Pi (over SSH). The installer downloads from the latest GitHub release, asks for a password, retention, time zone and the disk – and never touches the system disk.
- Download
install.shfrom the latest release and run it as root. - Open
http://<pi-ip>: cameras → disk → alerts → AI key. - Updates arrive in the admin. One click.
Plain HTTP by design: keep it in your LAN or behind a VPN. Never expose port 80 to the internet.
Installation guide →curl -fsSL -o install.sh https://github.com/VladimirVecera/atmovio/releases/latest/download/install.sh sudo bash install.sh
Prefer git? Clone the repository – install.sh is in its root:
git clone https://github.com/VladimirVecera/atmovio.git cd atmovio sudo bash install.sh
♥ Support the project
Atmovio is free – keep it that way
Server, cameras and AI credits cost money. Any amount helps – QR payment or bank transfer, no registration.
API & Home Assistant
Atmovio is not a closed box. Status, cameras, snapshots, detections and videos are one GET away – and Home Assistant needs no custom component.
Home Assistant
Sensors, camera entity and a phone notification with the picture – built-in REST integration, copy the YAML.
rest:
- resource: http://pi/api/v1/status
sensor:
- name: Atmovio disk used
value_template: "{{ value_json.storage.disk_pct }}"REST API
Status, cameras, snapshots, detections, videos and events as JSON with API keys. PHP scripts included.
GET /api/v1/status
GET /api/v1/cameras/zahrada/snapshot.jpg
GET /api/v1/detections?limit=5
GET /api/v1/videos
Authorization: Bearer at_…Webhook
Atmovio pushes status every minute and every alert with its picture to your website. PHP receiver included.
POST https://your-site/webhook.php
{"kind": "sky", "score": 9,
"phenomena": ["cervanky"],
"image": "<base64 jpeg>"}Open source
Made by Vladimír Večeřa for his own roof. MIT license. The admin is in Czech for now, the docs are in English and Czech – contributions welcome.
FAQ
Does it need the internet?
Recording: no. AI and alerts: yes, unless you run Ollama on the Pi.
Does it detect people or cars?
No. Atmovio is about the sky. Object detection can be enabled in Frigate at the cost of CPU.
How much disk?
Mbit/s of all cameras × 10.8 ≈ GB per day. Four 4 Mbit/s cameras ≈ 1.2 TB a week.
Is my video sent anywhere?
No. Only single snapshots go to the AI provider and to your own webhook if enabled.
Raspberry Pi 4?
Not supported. Previews and AI snapshots are CPU-bound.
Why no HTTPS?
It runs in your LAN. Use a VPN for remote access, never port-forward.