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Viseron vs Bluecherry: catalog facts
Viseron	Bluecherry

Best for: Home camera setups that want AI detection without sending video to a cloud	Best for: Running your own CCTV recorder for mixed IP and analog cameras on Linux
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, with optional sponsorship.	Free The server application source is free under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Object, face and license plate recognition run locally Camera agnostic with ONVIF control GPU, NPU and TPU acceleration Configuration editor built into the web interface	Supports both IP and analog cameras Packaging for Debian and RPM based distributions Actively maintained with frequent commits
Configuration is YAML-based, which takes some learning Docker is the expected way to run it	Linux only on the server side Building from source requires the project's custom scripts Depends on MySQL and PHP
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Offline features available	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Viseron viseron.netlify.app github.com/roflcoopter/viseron Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Bluecherry github.com/bluecherrydvr/bluecherry-apps Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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