Everstra
Purpose-built applications for Axis cameras — running directly on the camera hardware, not around it.
Modules
Everstra Live Free
Run up to three independent streams from one Axis camera — each with its own destination, resolution and view area. To YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or your own server, encrypted if you want it. Directly from the sensor, no PC or intermediate server required.
New in 0.4.0: optional keep-alive failover — if the camera drops out, a standby client you host yourself takes over with a maintenance image so the stream session stays alive.
Everstra Overlay Free
Place text and graphic overlays directly on the video stream — rendered by the camera itself, not by an external system. Scrolling text crawl via the Skia rendering engine, image overlays, time variables, a media manager, and a weekly scheduler with sunrise/sunset automation. Up to 5 text, 5 graphic and 2 weather overlays — the camera limits how many can be active at the same time.
New in 0.2.0: a weather overlay — live conditions from Open-Meteo in five layouts, no API key or account required.
Everstra Capture Free
Scheduled photo and video capture, running on the camera itself. Four independent modes: Long Term for hourly or custom-rhythm snapshots over weeks to years, Startrail for automatic nightly star-trail composites, Timelapse for scheduled interval capture encoded to H.264 MP4 on the camera, and Intraday for a continuously updated rolling clip. One shared media library, storage management with an optional low-space email warning, and FTP upload for finished results.
How the app works
- No phone-home. No telemetry, no usage reporting, no analytics — nothing goes to the developer or any third party. The only outbound connections are the ones you set up yourself: your stream to the target you choose, and the optional failover heartbeat to your own server.
- No cloud dependency. Everything runs on the camera itself. No account required, no subscription, no external service to keep running. Works entirely on your local network.
- Free hardware-bound license — one email, no recurring cost. Licenses are tied to individual camera hardware and issued free of charge. Request one by email from the app's settings page — no account, no form, no payment.
- Verifiable binaries. SHA-256 checksums are published alongside every release so you can verify the file you download matches the file we built.
- Transparent third-party components. All bundled open-source libraries are listed with their licenses in the Third-Party Notices. The corresponding source code is available for download on the download page.
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