My experience over the past decade has been being subsequently burned by being reliant on one provider's ecosystem after another. This is great until Reolink starts doing something shady to pad the bottom line and then it's on to the next.
I wanted the ability to run whatever cameras on a VLAN and own the stack.
I'm guessing that they are using Fargate which is an OSS NVR. It supports a little addon USB stick you can buy for about $30 that will run common computer vision tasks for object detection. Stuff that we've been able to do with WebAssembly and Canvas for a long time now.
I wanted the ability to run whatever cameras on a VLAN and own the stack.