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A self-hosted network video surveillance system

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A home camera system built to avoid cloud cameras' privacy problems.

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  • Repository account kevinbentley Source ↗
  • HN submitter kevin42 Source ↗

Earliest dated source: 13 Feb 2026

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After three years on Synology Surveillance Station and growing frustration with hardware lock-in, and with home-camera privacy problems in the news, the author built Ronin NVR. It's a self-hosted network video recorder with multi-camera recording, playback and machine-learning object detection, designed to replace commercial surveillance systems.

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  • Hacker News: Show HN: I built a self-hosted network video surveillance systemCode or repositorygithub.com
    Repository account: kevinbentley

    The NVR source and features.

  • Hacker News discussion (1 points)Forum threadnews.ycombinator.com
    HN submitter: kevin42Posted 13 Feb 2026

    The Show HN post explaining the motivation.

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