ira-connector 0.1.0

IRA home connector — discovers ONVIF/RTSP cameras on your LAN and relays motion-gated frames to the IRA cloud over an outbound-only encrypted WebSocket. No port forwarding.

ira-connector

The IRA home connector — turns the ONVIF/RTSP cameras on your WiFi into cloud security intelligence, without exposing anything to the internet.

Runs on any always-on machine (Mac, PC, Raspberry Pi) on the same network as your cameras. It discovers them (ONVIF WS-Discovery), pulls their RTSP streams locally, and relays motion-gated frames to your IRA server over one outbound encrypted WebSocket. No port forwarding, no router changes — your cameras are never reachable from the internet.

Install & pair

pipx install ira-connector
ira-connector pair <CODE> --server https://your-ira-server   # code from the IRA app
ira-connector run

The pairing code is shown in the IRA app's onboarding ("Link your home"). It is single-use and expires in 10 minutes.

What it sends

Only what monitoring needs: ≤960px JPEG frames at ~1 fps while the scene is idle, bursting to ~8 fps when cheap on-device motion detection sees activity. All detection intelligence runs server-side.

Works with

Cameras and NVR/DVR channels that speak ONVIF/RTSP — Hikvision, Dahua, Reolink, Amcrest, Annke, Uniview, and most installer CCTV systems. Cloud-locked cameras (Ring, Blink, Nest, Arlo) have no local protocol and are not supported.