OpenNVR
100% open-source AI video surveillance you actually own
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100% open-source AI video surveillance you actually own
7 followers
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.
Love that the detector contract is literally a Python file you can drop in — makes swapping in a custom YOLO model feel like swapping a lens instead of wrestling with vendor SDKs. The fact that everything still happens locally is just icing.
@sabrihacar Thanks for reviewing this and yes it is a design which gives AI models and developers endless possibilites.
the pluggable detector contract is genuinely clever, thirty lines of python to drop in any model feels like the right level of openness without drowning people in complexity
@ebubekird2os Thanks for reviewing this and yes it is a design which gives AI models endless possibilites.