Comment by 0points

Certainly interesting project, but I do encourage people to do more thorough research before starting a new project and claiming they needed to fill a void.

> However, I could not find one that I could trust due to privacy concerns.

> Many of them upload the plaintext of videos to their servers and none is fully open-source as far as I know.

There's Frigate [1] which is off-cloud, opensource and self-hosted and it does person detection using GPU or Google Coral. It relays camera streams over WebRTC using ssl and works well with Home Assistant [2], which is your self-hosted off-cloud smart home solution.

Then there's moonfire-nvr [3] which is written in rust and less feature complete than frigate.

And then there's sentryshot [4], another option written in rust.

Interestingly, your project got more stars since you posted it on HN than sentryshot has in total, and they have had a product out since 2021 while yours only support a single camera model and has no object detection.

I suppose this reflects how unknown these option are, which is kind of unexpected since googling "rust nvr" lists them all in the first page.

1: https://frigate.video/

2: https://www.home-assistant.io/

3: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr

4: https://github.com/SentryShot/sentryshot

> The prototype currently has a lot of limitations: mainly that it has only been tested with one IP camera

Since you use rust, you should maybe have a look at retina:

https://github.com/scottlamb/retina

Personally, I use frigate with Home Assistant linked to HomeKit, so I get snapshots & video from frigate straight into my iPhone lock screen as soon as it detects moving people or cars outside my house.