Yakk #
Simple and lightweight companion app for wall mounted or stationary devices used in home automation. Turn your device into a security camera and a motion detection sensor at the same time.
Yakk has a very small footprint and extremely ligthweight making it perfectly suitable to run on not just the latest and greatest but older, low end devices in environments where full-blown KIOSK functionalities are not required.
Yakk runs in the background, parallel with your primary content provider app (e.g. Home Assistant Companion app) waking up the device when motion is detected.
It does not try to embed or render your preferred content leaving that to other apps that are better suited and purpose built for that task.
Features #
Motion Detection #
Yakk will let your device turning off its screen and allowing it to enter low power mode, but still wake it up when movement is detected
Auto Start #
Automatically start Yakk and an optional companion app after device boot
Camera Streaming #
Turn your device into a security camera with Yakk by streaming an MJPEG video feed. Supports up to 10 concurrent sessions at the same time
See Installation for installation instructions or Configuration page for the full list of configuration options.
Yakk stands for “Yet Another Kiosk Companion” due to lack of imagination to come up with a better name
Yakk is completely free of charge and ad-free, if you’d still like to support the project you can buy me a coffee. Thank you!