OpenNVR
100% open-source AI video surveillance you actually own
OpenNVR launched on July 18, 2026 with 1 votes.
What it does
Unlike cloud NVRs (Ring, Nest, Verkada), OpenNVR is 100% Open Source and runs entirely on hardware you own — footage never leaves your network. Unlike fixed-stack NVRs, the AI is pluggable: any model becomes a detector via an open contract (~30 lines of Python) — YOLOv8, license plates, faces, or your own. And you can literally talk to your cameras: ask a question, a local LLM checks a live frame and answers out loud. No cloud, no subscriptions, no per-camera fees. Peer-reviewed architecture.
OpenNVR is the offline-first, self-hosted NVR that isolates your cameras and turns any model into a first-class detector through an open adapter contract.
For organizations that can't put their cameras — or the AI that watches them — in a vendor's cloud. OpenNVR keeps every frame and every inference on hardware you own, isolates cameras on a network they can't escape, and turns any AI model into a first-class, governed detector. Then you can just ask it what it sees. Built on a peer-reviewed offline-first security architecture. Read the paper → Pre-built images · runs on a Pi 5, a laptop, or a server · no cloud account, no API keys. Say it out loud — "is there a person at the front door?" — and a local LLM answers, grounded in a live frame from that camera, spoken back to you. No cloud. No API keys. No subscription. Running on the same box…from opennvr.org
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