Walk into any convenience store, dental office, or small retailer in America and you'll see one of three things behind the counter:
- A 2014 Hikvision DVR plugged into a 17" monitor, running firmware nobody's touched in eight years.
- A Verkada or Rhombus rep's business card and a $3,000/year line item the owner doesn't fully understand.
- Nothing at all, because the first two felt either too sketchy or too expensive.
CronyNVR is what we'd build for our own parents' businesses. Honest pricing. Hardware we don't hold hostage.
A cloud portal that actually works. An API for the POS integrator, the insurance adjuster, the franchise auditor.
Updates that don't brick your box at 3 AM.
What we won't compromise on
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Your video stays on your premises. The cloud is for live remote viewing,
management, and short-term clip caching. The recordings themselves live on the appliance
in your store. Cancel us and you keep all your footage.
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Open standards everywhere we can. RTSP for cameras. HLS / WebRTC for playback.
REST + JSON for the API. No proprietary protocol you have to license. No lock-in by file format.
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Real incident reports when we break things. Every outage gets a written
postmortem within 72 hours on the blog. What broke, why, what we changed.
Same standard you'd expect from Stripe or Cloudflare.
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One price. Per store. Not per camera, not per user, not per feature flag.
When you grow from 4 cameras to 8, your bill doesn't change.
Team
CronyNVR is built by CronySoft, a small software studio
in the United States. Engineering, ops, and customer support are the same handful of people —
email support@aliumtech.com or call
1-800-940-8957 (toll-free) /
512-576-7642 (direct) and you reach someone
who can fix it.
Built on the shoulders of giants
We didn't reinvent video surveillance. We took the best open-source pieces and wrapped them
in a cloud experience the small-business owner actually wants. Public thanks to:
- Frigate — the on-DVR object-detection + recording engine.
- go2rtc — the stream-handling powerhouse.
- .NET 10 — the cloud + portal.
- Flutter — the cross-platform viewer apps.
Want to follow along? The blog has every update, postmortem, and product
decision. Or just try it and tell us what's broken.