Best Self-hosted Video Surveillance & NVR tools in 2026
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Frigate
NVR with real-time local object detection for IP cameras
Self-hosted NVR for IP cameras with real-time local AI object detection, recording, and low-latency live viewing, with MQTT and Home Assistant integration.
ZoneMinder
Open-source Linux-based CCTV/NVR software.
ZoneMinder is a free, open-source video surveillance system for Linux that captures, analyzes, records, and monitors cameras via a web interface.
Scrypted
High-performance video integration and NVR platform
Open-source video integration and NVR platform that ingests camera streams and rebroadcasts them to HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Home Assistant and web clients via plugin...
Viseron
Local-only NVR with AI computer vision for IP cameras
Self-hosted NVR and computer vision platform for RTSP/IP cameras with local object detection, motion detection, and face recognition.
Unblink
AI camera monitoring with federated vision workers
Open-source AI camera monitoring that routes camera streams through a relay/node proxy and broadcasts frames to federated AI workers for detections, summaries, and alerts...
Double Take
Unified UI and API for facial recognition image processing
Unified web UI and REST API to process, review, and train facial recognition images across multiple detection backends, with MQTT and NVR integrations.
Bluecherry
Linux-based video surveillance server with web and mobile clients
Bluecherry is an open-source Linux video surveillance DVR for IP cameras, offering web-based live view, desktop and mobile clients, Docker deployment, notifications, and...
Blue Iris
Windows-based video surveillance and NVR software
Blue Iris is Windows NVR software for managing up to 128 cameras, recording and search, remote web/mobile viewing, motion/audio alerts, and optional built-in AI detection...
SentryShot
Self-hosted video surveillance with recording and object detection
Self-hosted NVR for IP cameras with low-latency live view, continuous recording, and TensorFlow Lite object detection via a mobile-friendly web UI.
Shinobi
Open-source CCTV and NVR platform for IP cameras
Self-hosted CCTV/NVR software for recording, viewing, and managing IP camera streams with a web UI, real-time events, and flexible deployment from edge to enterprise.