IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) MCP Server

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IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 126 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

MCP server for local IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP): snapshots, recordings, pan/tilt, presets

Installs per day peak 400 · avg 37

a month agotoday

1 126

Installs / week

pypi · ipcam-mcp

Stars

31 open issues

8 Nov 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ipcam-mcp -- uvx ipcam-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipcam-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ipcam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ipcam-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["ipcam-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipcam-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ipcam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "ipcam-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "ipcam-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: IPCAM_MCP_CONFIG (Path to cameras.toml (default: ~/.config/ipcam-mcp/cameras.toml)).

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IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)?

IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package ipcam-mcp was installed 1 126 times last week.

How do I connect IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls ipcam-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)?

The pypi package ipcam-mcp was installed 1 126 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 3 stars on GitHub and 31 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.