RTSP Camera

RTSP Camera turns your Android phone into a live RTSP video source on your local Wi-Fi network. Open VLC — or any RTSP-capable player, NVR, or home-automation system — on the same network, paste the URL, and you are watching the phone's camera and microphone in real time.

No accounts. No cloud. No ads. No analytics. The video and audio never leave your local network.

WHAT IT DOES

• Streams the phone's camera (front or back) and microphone as H.264 + AAC over RTSP.

• Runs an on-device RTSP server — your phone IS the camera.

• Shows the streaming URL on screen so you can copy it straight into VLC, ffplay, OBS, Frigate, Home Assistant, Blue Iris, or any RTSP client.

• Keeps streaming reliably in the background via a foreground service, so you can lock the screen and the feed stays live.

TYPICAL USES

• Spare-phone security camera at home or in the office.

• Baby monitor or pet cam viewable from your laptop.

• Cheap dash cam or workshop cam.

• Test source for NVR / VMS / Home Assistant setups — no need to buy hardware to verify your config.

• Local broadcast for tinkering with FFmpeg, GStreamer, or OBS without a USB capture card.

CONFIGURABLE

• Resolution, framerate, and video bitrate.

• Camera selection (front / back) and orientation.

• RTSP port and stream path.

• Audio toggle (stream silently if you only need video).

PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN

• 100% on-device processing — the live stream is sent peer-to-peer on your Wi-Fi LAN.

• No cloud upload of any kind.

• No third-party analytics, no advertising SDKs, no attribution SDKs, no crash-reporting SDK.

• No personal data collected — there is no sign-up because there is no server.

• Cleartext HTTP is disabled at the manifest level.

The only "data" the app keeps is your local settings (resolution, bitrate, port, etc.) in Android's per-app private storage. Uninstalling removes everything.

Read the full policy: https://mimarlogics.com/privacy/rtsp-camera

WORKS WITH

VLC, FFmpeg / ffplay, MPV, OBS Studio (RTSP source), Home Assistant (generic camera / WebRTC / go2rtc), Frigate, Blue Iris, Synology Surveillance Station, Shinobi, and most NVR / VMS software that speaks RTSP.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• RTSP itself is not encrypted. Use this only on networks you trust. Anyone on the same Wi-Fi network with the URL can view the stream.

• Both phone and viewer must be on the same Wi-Fi network. The app does not punch through routers, NATs, or carrier networks.

• Streaming continuously is power-hungry — keep the phone plugged in for long sessions.

PERMISSIONS

• Camera and microphone — to capture what is being streamed.

• Internet, Wi-Fi state, and network state — to open the local socket and show the URL.

• Foreground service (camera + microphone) and notifications — so streaming stays alive when the screen is off.

• Wake lock — so the CPU keeps encoding while the screen is off.

That's the full list. No location, no contacts, no storage, no calendar, no SMS.