Download
Get Farview
On a phone from Google Play. On a computer, or on a machine that stays on at home, from here: Windows, macOS and Linux.
Phone and tablet
Android 10 or later
Watch the cameras and move them, at home or away.
Get it on Google PlayComputer
Windows · macOS · Linux
The cameras on a big screen, and setting them up. It carries the relay too, so a computer that stays on needs nothing else.
Desktop appA machine that stays on
Small server · NAS · Raspberry Pi
The relay alone, with no screen: what lets you reach the cameras from outside your home.
The relayDesktop app
Version 2026.10.11 · 14 October 2026 · what changed
Not from a store: from us, for every system. It installs for your user, and when it hosts the relay it starts with the computer, hidden in the tray — that can be turned off in the relay panel.
For this computer —
DownloadWindows
64-bit (x86-64)
The app is not signed yet, so Windows says the publisher is unknown: choose More info, then Run anyway.
How to install
- Open the file you downloaded. It installs for your user and asks for no administrator password.
- It carries what it needs to play video: there is nothing else to install.
macOS
Apple silicon or Intel · needs ffmpeg
It needs ffmpeg to play video, and it is not notarised yet: macOS may say it is damaged. It is not — the steps below say what to type.
How to install
- Install ffmpeg with Homebrew:
brew install ffmpeg - Unzip the file and move Farview to Applications.
- Remove the mark macOS puts on an unsigned app downloaded from the internet, then open it:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Farview.app
Linux
x86-64 · needs ffmpeg (the packages install it)
How to install
Debian, Ubuntu — apt, not dpkg -i: it brings ffmpeg along.
sudo apt install ./farview_2026.10.11_amd64.debFedora
sudo dnf install ./farview-2026.10.11.x86_64.rpmAppImage — install ffmpeg from your distribution first: an AppImage cannot ask for it.
chmod +x Farview-2026.10.11-x86_64.AppImage
./Farview-2026.10.11-x86_64.AppImageThe relay on its own
Version 2026.10.8 · 14 October 2026 · what changed
For a machine with no screen that stays on: a small server, a NAS, a Raspberry Pi. One program, no dependencies. On a computer that already has the desktop app you do not need it: the app carries it.
Linux packages
x86-64 · install farview-relay and a systemd service, off until you turn it on
The program alone
Any system · rename it farview-relay after downloading
Linux and macOS: chmod +x it first; macOS also xattr -d com.apple.quarantine on it, since it is not signed yet.
Set it up
As an administrator: sudo on Linux and macOS, an elevated prompt on Windows
- Sign in, to add this machine to your account
With Google you type a code on your phone; or ask for a link by email.
sudo farview-relay loginsudo farview-relay login -email [email protected] - Start it now, and at every boot
It runs as a service from then on, with nobody logged in.
sudo farview-relay service install - Add the cameras
From the phone or the desktop app.
The relay's own page,
http://this-machine:8088, says whether it can be reached from the internet — we check from outside — and if not, why.
What stays on the machine
farview-relay login signs in, adds the machine to your account and signs out again: nothing on it can sign in to your account afterwards. It keeps a credential for this one machine, which you can revoke from the app, and a key only this machine holds to read the list of cameras. Your passphrase is never on it.
With the desktop app on that machine, farview --headless login and farview --headless service install do the same.
Check what you downloaded
Every folder has SHA256SUMS and MD5SUMS: desktop, relay. In the folder you downloaded to:
sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMSmacOS, Windows, MD5 and signatures
macOS: shasum -a 256 -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS. Windows: Get-FileHash .\file in PowerShell, compared by eye. MD5 is there for tools that only know MD5 — it detects a broken download, not a forged one.
Signatures. Every file, and SHA256SUMS, has a signature beside it with .asc added to the name, made with the Synapsi release key (synapsi-releases.asc, Synapsi Releases <[email protected]>):
curl -O https://farview.synapsi.ai/download/synapsi-releases.asc
gpg --import synapsi-releases.asc
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMSThe fingerprint, to compare with the Primary key fingerprint line gpg prints: 0044 32F6 A65F C166 2282 2243 DDF6 73DB 4582 AD8F
Updates
Neither program is in a store, so each asks this site, once each time it starts, for https://farview.synapsi.ai/appcast.json — a static file with a version number and this page's address — and says so if there is something newer.
The request carries no identifier, no version and no parameters, and nothing is downloaded or installed without you.