--- title: "Sentinel CCTV" description: "Sentinel CCTV is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 124 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated October 24, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/jencarnacao19-sentinel-cctv" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/jencarnacao19-sentinel-cctv.md" last-updated: "2026-10-27" version: "1.4" --- # Sentinel CCTV > Sentinel CCTV is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 124 installs sharing analytics, works locally and was last updated October 24, 2026. Sentinel CCTV connects Home Assistant to a local Sentinel server that records RTSP cameras and detects motion. The integration does not record or reach cameras on its own, so it needs the separate Sentinel server running on the local network. It adds camera entities, a motion binary sensor, a recording switch and sensors for storage used, storage free, recordings size, retention, cameras online, bitrate and motion events total. Home Assistant can discover the server on the network, and the connection uses an API token created in Sentinel. An option sets the fallback poll interval in seconds, and a diagnostics download is available for bug reports. The project describes itself as early development, and it keeps recording without Home Assistant or the Internet. Automatic summary of the README and code of jencarnacao19/sentinel-cctv. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=jencarnacao19&repository=sentinel-cctv&category=integration) On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=jencarnacao19&repository=sentinel-cctv&category=integration) ## Supports - **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between. - **Found by itself**: Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it. - **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services. ### Connect to Sentinel CCTV - **Server address**: For example http://192.168.50.50:8090 - **API token**: Starts with sctv\_ ### Sentinel CCTV found - **API token** Also asked when signing in again. ### After setup - **Fallback poll interval (seconds)** Texts from the code of [jencarnacao19/sentinel-cctv](https://github.com/jencarnacao19/sentinel-cctv). ## Entities - **Binary sensors**: Motion - **Sensors**: Storage used, Storage free, Recordings size, Retention, Cameras online, Recording, Bitrate, Motion events total - **Switches**: Recording ## Troubleshooting - **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report. ## From the README > Local-first video surveillance for RTSP cameras. Continuous recording, motion detection, a timeline and a Home Assistant integration. Runs on a small home server without a GPU. > > Early development (2.0.0). Test it with your own cameras and storage before relying on it. PROJECT\_STATUS.md lists what works today and what does not yet. > > - Records continuously without re-encoding the video, so ten cameras run comfortably on a 4-core home server. No GPU needed. > - Detects motion on the CPU and marks it on a searchable timeline with playback. Named zones each get their own sensitivity and Home Assistant sensor, and areas you mark as ignored never trigger. > - Moves to a new machine with one YAML file holding every camera, zone and setting. Camera passwords go in only if you set a passphrase. > - Manages storage with retention rules and permanent saved clips. > - Controls cameras: ONVIF pan/tilt/zoom and presets, plus a privacy mode that pauses every camera. > - Stays local: no cloud and no telemetry. Recording keeps working without Home Assistant or the Internet. From the README of [jencarnacao19/sentinel-cctv](https://github.com/jencarnacao19/sentinel-cctv#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened. ## At a glance - Kind: Marketplace integration - Category: [Security and safety](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/security-and-safety.md), Cameras - Number: 124 installs sharing analytics; 1 GitHub stars - Connection: Works locally - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older) - Latest version: v2.0.0, last updated October 24, 2026 - Domain: `sentinel` - Source: - Issues: In Vulpo: Quick Toggle card, Camera card, Chart card, Apple Watch, Control Center Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-10-27. 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