I got into free and open source software to help preserve my privacy, so I’m pretty ambivalent about a FOSS surveillance platform.

Fair point. In our system face and license plate recognition are optional modules — the platform works as a normal intercom / CCTV system without them.

Making it open source and self-hosted also means operators can control exactly what features they enable and how data is handled.

I get the concern 🙂 One of the motivations behind the project is actually that these systems already exist everywhere, but most of them are closed and opaque.

Making the platform open-source means the code can be audited, modified, or self-hosted instead of trusting proprietary black boxes.