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Best Offline-First Video Surveillance for self-hosting

The 10 best Offline-First video surveillance you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

OpenALPR

Video Surveillance

Automatic license plate recognition library

Replaces Rekor Scout, Plate Recognizer

★ 11.4k Hard setup AGPL-3.0

OpenCvSharp

Video Surveillance

.NET wrapper for OpenCV computer vision

Replaces Commercial vision SDKs

★ 6.1k Medium setup Apache-2.0

Viseron

Video Surveillance

Self-hosted NVR with local AI object detection

Replaces Nest Cam, Blue Iris

★ 3.3k Medium setup MIT

WebRTC Camera

Video Surveillance

Low-latency camera streaming integration for Home Assistant

Replaces Cloud camera streaming

★ 2.2k Medium setup MIT

OpenIPC

Video Surveillance

Open-source firmware for IP cameras and surveillance devices

Replaces Stock IP camera firmware

★ 2.1k Hard setup MIT

Picamera2

Video Surveillance

Python library for the Raspberry Pi camera with streaming support

Replaces Proprietary camera SDKs

★ 1.2k Medium setup BSD-2-Clause

Frigate Home Assistant Integration

Video Surveillance

Connects Frigate NVR detections into Home Assistant

Replaces Cloud camera integrations

★ 1.2k Easy setup MIT

DVR-Scan

Video Surveillance

Detect and extract motion events from video footage

Replaces Blue Iris motion review

★ 513 Easy setup BSD-2-Clause

ZoneMinder Event Notification Server

Video Surveillance

Real-time alerts and AI detection add-on for ZoneMinder

Replaces Cloud camera alert services

★ 423 Hard setup GPL-2.0

MotionPlus

Video Surveillance

Next-generation successor to the Motion surveillance software

Replaces Blue Iris, ZoneMinder

★ 368 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the video surveillance category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.