Rige Cam turns spare Android phones into capable security cameras and pulls your professional ONVIF/RTSP cameras into the same clean, unified view — all without a monthly subscription to get started. Setup takes under five minutes, and your footage never leaves your network unless you say so.
Front Porch — Pixel 4a
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Parking Lot — ONVIF
IP Camera
Storage Room — Galaxy S9
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Office Entrance — RTSP
IP Camera
You've got an old phone collecting dust in a drawer, a professional IP camera mounted outside, and maybe a cloud-connected doorbell — each living in a completely separate app, each sending you alerts at 3 a.m. about a tree branch. Some charge you monthly just to see your own recordings. Others upload everything to a server you've never heard of.
The result: alert fatigue, forgotten logins, privacy concerns, and a growing pile of hardware that could be doing something useful right now.
There's a cleaner way.
Rige Cam is a unified physical monitoring platform built around a single idea: all your cameras — whether they're repurposed Android phones or professional IP cameras — should live in one place, behave consistently, and respect your privacy by default.
Install the free Rige Cam Android app on any phone running Android 7+, point it at what matters, and it appears on your dashboard in under five minutes. The phone handles motion detection on-device — no cloud round-trip required.
Any ONVIF-compatible or RTSP-stream IP camera integrates directly into your Rige Cam dashboard. One login, one timeline, one set of alert rules — regardless of brand or price point.
On-device AI motion detection filters out cars, shadows, and weather. Only the events that actually matter reach you — typically 80–90% fewer false alerts compared to standard motion sensors.
Video processing and AI inference run locally. Nothing is sent to external servers for analysis. You decide what gets stored, where, and for how long.
Everything a modern monitoring setup needs — without the complexity.
Live feeds, recorded clips, and motion timelines from every camera — Android phone or professional IP — in a single clean interface. No app-switching, no context loss.
Give a retired Android phone a second life as a capable, always-on security camera. Rige Cam's Android app runs efficiently in the background, drawing as little as 1–2W on a plugged-in device. Good for your budget, good for the planet.
Drop in any standards-compatible IP camera — indoor dome, outdoor PTZ, license plate reader — and Rige Cam handles the connection. No proprietary hub, no vendor lock-in.
Motion detection and scene analysis happen on the device or your local server — never on a third-party AI cloud. Your footage is yours, processed where you control it.
AI-filtered notifications mean you hear about a person at your door, not every passing car or flickering light. Set zones, sensitivity thresholds, and quiet hours from one place.
Scrub through a single chronological timeline across all cameras. Jump to a motion event on camera 3 without losing your place on camera 1. Export clips directly from the dashboard in seconds.
For Android phone cameras, Rige Cam manages screen state, CPU throttling, and wake locks automatically — so the device stays reliable for 24/7 monitoring without overheating or draining a battery unnecessarily.
Start with two cameras on the free tier. Add phones, add professional cameras, upgrade when you're ready. No hardware replacement required — the same app and dashboard grow with your setup.
| Free | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameras | Up to 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI Motion Filtering | Advanced | Advanced | |
| Recording Storage | 24 hrs rolling | Up to 30 days | Custom |
| Credit Card Required | Contact us | ||
| SSO / Compliance |
The free tier is a real, working product — two cameras, persistent motion alerts, and local recording with no time limit on the plan itself. Upgrade when you need more cameras or longer storage history.
See full pricingWhat makes it worth trusting
There's no setting to find or toggle. AI runs on your device or your local server. Rige Cam never analyzes your footage on external infrastructure.
Most platforms claim "unified" but treat phone cameras as second-class. In Rige Cam, a repurposed Pixel 4a and a PoE dome camera share the same timeline, the same alert rules, and the same live view grid.
Manufacturing a new security camera generates roughly 50–70kg of CO₂ equivalent. Your old Android phone is already made. Putting it back to work means one less device in a landfill and zero new hardware cost to get started.
The free tier isn't a 14-day trial. It's two cameras, real AI filtering, and local recording — permanently free for anyone who wants it.
Rige Cam is designed around connection resilience, automatic stream recovery, and consistent uptime — because a monitoring system that goes offline silently is worse than not having one.
Whether you're starting with a single old phone pointed at your front door or adding Rige Cam to an existing professional camera setup, you can have everything running in one clean dashboard today.
No credit card. No cloud dependency. No unnecessary complexity.
No credit card required — free tier stays free
Questions? Read the docs or contact support — real answers, no chatbot maze.