onSense: Camera for PC AI

onSense gives your PC AI agents real-world eyes.

It's a local bridge that lets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, or any

MCP-capable AI use your Android phone's camera, recent photos, sensors, and

files — through a PC-side MCP bridge you install with one command. No cloud

relay, no ADB, no developer-run servers. Everything stays on your local Wi-Fi.

Point your phone at a circuit board, a device panel, a paper document, or a

product label, and ask your PC AI "what do you see on my phone?". The frame

is delivered straight to your agent.

WHAT IT DOES

• Live camera frames → your PC AI, on request

• Reference modes: share a live view, a captured photo, or any file

• Recent photos and selected images

• Basic sensors (battery, light, motion)

• Two-way file & clipboard bridge between phone and PC (move files, no cable)

• QR pairing — no accounts, no sign-in

PRIVACY & SECURITY, BY DESIGN

• No developer cloud. Your phone talks only to your own paired PC.

• Camera runs only when you start sharing, with a persistent notification.

• Every access is shown in an on-device activity log.

• Requests are HMAC-signed and payloads are AES-256-GCM encrypted.

• You control the connection and can stop sharing at any time.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Install the free PC bridge: uvx onsense pair

2. Scan the QR shown on your PC with the app

3. Ask your AI client (Claude, Codex, or any MCP client) to look through your phone

REQUIREMENTS

• Your Android phone and PC must be on the same local network.

• The free onSense PC bridge (PyPI) must be installed separately.

• Whatever AI client receives the images/data handles them under its own policy.

onSense is for developers and power users who want to give a PC AI agent a

safe, local, real-world input device — not a consumer AI camera.