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Moonfire NVR

Lightweight always-recording network video recorder

Video Surveillance ★ 1.7k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

Moonfire NVR is an open-source security camera network video recorder focused on efficient, continuous recording. Written in Rust, it stores video with minimal overhead and provides a simple web interface to review footage.

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Key features

  • Continuous always-on recording
  • Efficient storage handling
  • Web review interface
  • Low resource footprint

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very efficient
  • Reliable 24/7 recording

Trade-offs

  • Limited motion analytics
  • Smaller feature set

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