Linux video surveillance software

Bluecherry is a Linux based server application with a Windows, Linux and OS-X client.

What is Bluecherry?

Bluecherry is a Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS based Linux video surveillance application that supports network (IP) cameras. The Bluecherry software has a low memory footprint, supports ONVIF, and issues GPU for motion detection. This means that a lower end server with a supported GPU (embedded Intel graphics for example) can support multiple streams with low CPU usage.

Bluecherry has both a web view for configuration and live viewing and a open source multi-operating system client (Linux, Windows, OSX). Bluecherry can easily be installed in a virtual machine for testing or deployment and upgraded via standard distribution upgrade methods (ie – no binary blobs to replace manually).

Features

Completely Open Source

As of April 20, 2019 Bluecherry has released the entire software suite as open source under the GPL licensing.

Quickly add network cameras

Quickly add ONVIF supported network cameras automatically with our network scan / detection tool

Cross platform client

Our open source client is available for Linux, Windows and OS X

Quick, easy installation

Copy and paste our repository links and install our software in seconds

User based roles and access

Quickly and easily setup new users and only give them access to cameras or features you want.

Priority support available

We offer Community forums, Live Chat and email based support and phone support can be purchased separately.

Pricing

Community or perpetual licensing?

Only have a few cameras? No problem, download and use our software for free for up to 4 cameras with no licensing restrictions. Decide later to add more cameras? No problem either, just purchase a perpetual software license.

Compare community vs perpetual here.

Community

free

Up to 4 cameras
30 day free trial (unlimited cameras)
Basic support
All features and functionality

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Small business

starting at $50

Perpetual

Upto 128 cameras
* Custom domain + TLS
30 day free trial
Ticket support
All features and functionality
* Coming soon in v3.1

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Get started!

# Docker Compose image
https://github.com/bluecherrydvr/bluecherry-docker

# ** Bluecherry stable (2.8.8) **
# Install Bluecherry on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Debian 9
 sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://dl.bluecherrydvr.com/scripts/install)"  

# ** Bluecherry beta (3.x) **
# Install Bluecherry on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 21.04, Debian 10, Debian 11
# Recommended for the ONVIF motion detection, sub streaming, H265 (beta) support **
  sudo bash -c "$(curl -s https://dl.bluecherrydvr.com/scripts/install-unstable)" 

Once installed, connect to the newly installed server with a web browser (https://bluecherryserver:7001)
(Default login: Admin / bluecherry)

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# Install the Linux client:
sudo apt-get install bluecherry-client