Care Chords

Care Chords seamlessly blends an IP camera’s audio with Spotify, allowing you to enjoy music while keeping an ear on your little ones.

Features

• AI-powered noise filtering – Eliminates static and background noise from the camera’s audio
• Full Spotify control – Effortlessly browse and select playlists with automatic filtering
• Smart sleep timer – Gradually fades out music while keeping the baby monitor audio active
• Live, low-latency video – View the camera feed in real time when the app is open
• Background playback – Keep monitoring and listening to music even when the app is minimized
• Auto-mute on device change – Instantly mutes when output devices switch

Screenshots

Now Playing	Playlist Selector

How does it work

The Rust backend uses GStreamer to capture audio from an IP camera via RTSP and combines this with the integrated Spotify client. The streams are processed, mixed, and streamed to an RTSP server for client consumption.

The client communicates with the backend over HTTP to control playback, song selection, the sleep timer, and other settings.

To Do

• Add configurable connection settings (currently, all addresses are hardcoded)
• Implement a settings menu

Docker compose with config file

version: '3.8'

services:
  mediamtx:
    image: bluenviron/mediamtx:latest
    container_name: rtspserver
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: "host"
    volumes:
      - ./mediamtx.yml:/mediamtx.yml

  carechords:
    image: carechords:latest
    container_name: carechords
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: "host"
    volumes:
      - ./carechords.toml:/etc/carechords.toml
      - ./spotify_cache:/cache

Docker compose with environment variables

version: '3.8'

services:
  mediamtx:
    image: bluenviron/mediamtx:latest
    container_name: rtspserver
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: "host"
    volumes:
      - ./mediamtx.yml:/mediamtx.yml


  carechords:
    image: carechords:latest
    container_name: carechords
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: "host"
    environment:
        CARECHORDS_RTSP_SERVER: "rtsp://localhost:7554/sleep"
        CARECHORDS_MONITOR_URL: "rtsp://sleepstream:sleepstream@10.0.0.51"
        CARECHORDS_NOISE_FILTER: true
    volumes:
      - ./spotify_cache:/cache

mediamtx.yml

rtsp: yes
rtspAddress: :7554

paths:
  all:
    source: publisher