Right? All of this seems like trying to solve the wrong issue. Solve VPN routing with a routing solution, solve stream collection and processing with something like Frigate. I run ML models locally on a GPU and get a notification through MQTT/HA/Tailscale to my phone when the local stray cat arrives for dinner. What else do you really need?

I don't buy the cheap storage argument, trading an upfront cost of maybe $100 for all that complexity. And you can still keep archives - and even a reasonable UI - with some off the shelf FUSE driver. Or, less janky, a cron script running rclone or whatever.

Cool project, I just don't see people migrating to it.