What is Bluecherry?
Bluecherry is a sophisticated Linux video surveillance application designed for Linux operating systems. Specifically tailored to support network (IP) cameras, Bluecherry boasts a minimal memory footprint, ONVIF compatibility, and is engineered for optimal resource utilization, ensuring low CPU usage. This makes it an ideal choice for servers with modest specifications.
Key Features:
- Efficient Resource Utilization: Bluecherry is designed for optimal resource utilization, ensuring a low memory footprint and efficient CPU usage. This makes it an ideal choice for servers with modest specifications.
- ONVIF Support: The software is fully compatible with ONVIF, providing users with a standardized interface for seamless integration with a wide range of network cameras.
- Web-Based Configuration and Live Viewing: Bluecherry offers a user-friendly web interface for both configuration and live viewing, providing a convenient and intuitive experience for users.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: With an open-source multi-operating system client, Bluecherry supports Linux, Windows, and OSX along with our iOS and Android apps ensuring flexibility and accessibility across various platforms. Check out our open source GitHub repo!
- Virtual Machine Installation: Bluecherry can be effortlessly installed in a virtual machine, facilitating easy testing and deployment. This feature streamlines the setup process and enhances scalability.
- Seamless Upgrades: Enjoy hassle-free upgrades through standard distribution upgrade methods. Bluecherry eliminates the need for manual intervention with binary blobs, ensuring a smooth and straightforward upgrade process.
Discover the power of Bluecherry, where advanced video surveillance meets ease of use. Whether you are configuring settings through the web interface, accessing live views, or using the iOS, Android or desktop clients, Bluecherry delivers a reliable and feature-rich solution tailored to your surveillance needs. Upgrade with confidence, knowing that our commitment to seamless integration and efficient resource utilization sets Bluecherry apart in the world of Linux video surveillance applications.
Features
One command install
Existing version 2 customers Below is the installation link for Version 3 (currently in release candidate) . You are welcome to try version 3 for free for 30 days using the trial. However unless you purchased version 2 after March, 2021 there is a 50% upgrade fee from version 2 to version 3.Contact Bluecherry with your currently order or license key to obtain the 50% coupon code.
Need the version 2 installation instructions? Click here.
Need the version 2 installation instructions? Click here.
# Ubuntu / Debian systems make sure curl AND sudo is installed (apt-get install curl sudo)
# New in July, 2023. Install Bluecherry server on any Linux distribution that supports docker.
sudo bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://install.bluecherrydvr.com/docker)"
Once installed, connect to the newly installed server with a web browser (https://bluecherryserver:7001)
Default login: Admin Password: bluecherry
Install the Linux client:
sudo apt-get install bluecherry-client
Community edition
Limited support FREE
- Up to 4 cameras
- Live streaming via mobile apps
- Cross platform desktop client
- Email / web hook notifications
- User access / roles
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Licenses
Support by email / forums / live chat Starting at $40
- Up to 150 cameras per server
- Live streaming via mobile apps
- Cross platform desktop client
- Email / web hook notifications
- User access / roles
- bluecherry.app domain
- Auto configured SSL certificate
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Bluecherry develops a Linux based video surveillance application with a cross platform client. The entire application is open source under GPL licensing.
Latest GitHub commits
- Merge pull request #681 from andrey-utkin/fix-debuginfo April 24, 2024Merge pull request #681 from andrey-utkin/fix-debuginfo
- Put stripped debug symbols back into bluecherry-dbg April 24, 2024Put stripped debug symbols back into bluecherry-dbg Previously, the debug symbols were discarded by our building environment. With this change, bluecherry-dbg packages again contain the debug symbols stripped from the built code. Alternatively, we could change this code to "dh_strip --keep-debug" which adds 7 MB to bluecherry.deb, taking it from 28M to 35M. The situation […]
- Merge pull request #680 from andrey-utkin/fix-changelog-formatting April 24, 2024Merge pull request #680 from andrey-utkin/fix-changelog-formatting
- Fix formatting of historical changelog entries April 24, 2024Fix formatting of historical changelog entries These don't matter for building, but some of them emit warnings regularly.
- Fix changelog formatting April 24, 2024Fix changelog formatting Date must follow the maintainer name after two spaces. Order of date fields is fixed, month follows the day. These formatting rules were violated which caused package building to fail.