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.
