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Video Surveillance

Self-hosted alternatives to Ring Protect, Nest Aware and Arlo Secure.

What people say

• record my security cameras without a cloud subscription
• see my cameras from anywhere
• detect people and cars on my cameras

Why people self-host it

People leave Ring Protect, Nest Aware, Arlo Secure for it. Why, strongest first: privacy, cost, it has to run at home.

Does it suit a machine of your own?

Fits, with conditions camera footage is sensitive, and recording needs a machine at home with disk and ideally an accelerator

Questions that decide it

• how many cameras, and which kind?

How to publish it

Usually

org only

When the data is private or sensitive

org only, or not published

The machine

always on, at home, disk for recordings; object detection wants a GPU or accelerator

Cards for it

No card yet. Apps for it are listed on awesome-selfhosted. An agent with the edgible-cards skill can shortlist apps and build one, or you can ask for one.

Category from awesome-selfhosted.