Viseron
Viseron is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Video Surveillance category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Python. It is a self-hosted alternative to Ring and ships a Docker image. It has 3,660 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 3,660
- Forks
- 456
- Open issues
- 43
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,348
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.7.0Sep 17, 2026
- Created
- Aug 30, 2020
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,348 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,348 |
| Latest release | v3.7.0 (Sep 17, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 75 |
| Open issues | 43 |
| Open pull requests | 9 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Aug 30, 2020 |
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About Viseron
Self-hosted, local-only NVR and AI Computer Vision software. With features such as object detection, motion detection, face recognition and more, it gives you the power to keep an eye on your home….
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/roflcoopter/viseron.
Topics
- nvr
- network-video-capture
- network-video-recorder
- tensorflow
- darknet
- yolo
- hardware-acceleration
- object-detection
- motion-detection
- cuda
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Is Viseron free and open source?
Yes. Viseron is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Viseron with Docker?
Yes. Viseron provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Viseron?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Viseron include Frigate, Scrypted and Zoneminder. Viseron itself is a self-hosted alternative to Ring.
Is Viseron actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Viseron was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,348 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.7.0, published Sep 17, 2026. It had 43 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.