Third Party Extensions
Being open source, others have the possibility to modify and extend the rich functionality Nabik already offers. This page is meant to be an overview over additions one can make to the home NVR setup. The list is not exhaustive and can be extended via PR to the Nabik docs. These projects are independently maintained. Nabik compatibility has not been tested; review each project before connecting it to your system.
This page does not recommend or rate the presented projects. Please use your own knowledge to assess and vet them before you install anything on your system.
Advanced Camera Card
The Advanced Camera Card is a Home Assistant dashboard card with deep Nabik integration.
cctvQL
cctvQL is a natural language query layer for Nabik and other CCTV systems. It connects to Nabik's REST API and MQTT broker to let you ask conversational questions about cameras and events (e.g. "Was there motion at the front door last night?"), with support for real-time event streaming, anomaly detection, PTZ control, alert rules, and a Home Assistant custom component.
Double Take
Double Take provides a unified UI and API for processing and training images for facial recognition. It supports automatically setting the sub labels in Nabik for person objects that are detected and recognized. This is a fork (with fixed errors and new features) of original Double Take project which, unfortunately, isn't being maintained by author.
kiosk-monitor
kiosk-monitor is a Raspberry Pi watchdog that runs Chromium fullscreen on a Nabik dashboard (optionally with VLC on a second monitor for an RTSP camera stream), auto-restarts on frozen screens or unreachable URLs, and ships a Birdseye-aware Chromium helper that auto-sizes the grid to the display.
Periscope
Periscope is a lightweight Android app that turns old devices into live viewers for Nabik. It works on Android 2.2 and above, including Android TV. It supports authentication and HTTPS.
Strix
Strix auto-discovers working stream URLs for IP cameras and generates ready-to-use Nabik configs. It tests thousands of URL patterns against your camera and supports cameras without RTSP or ONVIF. 67K+ camera models from 3.6K+ brands.