Thanks @looney2ns but I already tried that and didn't find much of anything specific.Search is your friend.
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I'm curious to learn why you are heading in this direction vs using BI? As I could understand not going with DW / NX given the huge costs for the same.
I haven't reviewed any of the documentation but if you know can a low power RPI-4 be relied upon to run this software?
I didn't have a good experience with BI. I found it used a lot of power and generated a lot of heat on the old Dell computer. I found DW Spectrum and liked how it split the functions between the server and client. Today I was surfing the web and found Frigate. I'm planning to build out a Home Assistant set up so I'm very curious to learn more about Frigate, particularly how others have it set up.I'm curious to learn why you are heading in this direction vs using BI? As I could understand not going with DW / NX given the huge costs for the same.
Trying to understand if this is a financial limitation vs just wanting to learn something new and play with something??
I think you can run a few ip cameras using a Raspberry Pi 4, but you'll definitely want to have the Google Coral TPU added to it. Here's more: Recommended hardware | Frigate
Appreciate the resource link and believe I recall why Frigate wasn't in my list of NVR considerations. That was due to the fact its restricted or limited to the use of H.264 video codec. Maybe if I was doing this for someone else or where I just wanted a forth system to put around with I would use H.264
Uisng H.264 is certainly less desirable because it will use more network bandwidth. But if I am only running a handful of ip cameras, will it really be noticeable?Appreciate the resource link and believe I recall why Frigate wasn't in my list of NVR considerations. That was due to the fact its restricted or limited to the use of H.264 video codec. Maybe if I was doing this for someone else or where I just wanted a forth system to put around with I would use H.264
In 2022, I'm not going backwards to use early 2000 technology.
That would depend on how robust your network is and your personal life. If you're like any other common household you'll have people constantly streaming something from: Music, YouTube, NetFlix, etc. You add on something that's constantly streaming from a camera to a NVR.
Is it possible your PC did not meet recommended minimum specs AND you did not perform the recommended optimizations including using sub streams?
Not a RPI on its own. They are too underpowered. Frigate is designed to use a Coral device or modern CPU as a last resort. You could use a RPI with a coral with no problems.
I forget what version of BI it was--it was whatever was the most recent as of April 2021. My hardware at the time was an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 with an Intel Core i5-6500 Quad-core processor running at 3.2 GHz with 16GB of DDR4 SDRAM. I had three 4 MP ip cameras and recording both main and sub streams 24/7 to test it out. I just found the entire experience lacking. Maybe the hardware wasn't strong enough? It was listed a sufficient in the Wiki guide here.
Yes, you definitely need the Google Coral TPU to do the identification of events, like someone trespassing on your yard as opposed to the tree branch moving in the wind. Otherwise, your CPU will be over taxed.
I plan to connect 7 ip cameras to an unmanaged Netgear switch. I'll run an dual NIC mini PC on the 8th switch so the ip cameras will not have direct access to the internet. This is how I had DW Spectrum set up. From what I've read, I think I can do the same thing with Frigate, except I'll plug in a Google Coral TPU via USB (damn those things are expensive--is it really the chip shortage or just Google's market power?).
Ran across a posting on HA a while back, where he used Firgate+Coral TPU for AI detection, with NodeRed, MQTT that tells BI to record motion, along with BI recording 24x7.
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I run Frigate with 6 cameras on an old Dell Optiplex that runs Home Assistant. I have a separate 4TB drive installed for 24/7 recordings. Frigate is super lightweight, it's been rock solid, and works so well in my experience. I've never used Blue Iris or a standalone NVR, but I'm a software developer so Frigate's ability to be fine tuned and perfectly configured for my needs is what I like about it. I've contributed a few features to the project, and the developer is about to release a new version that will eventually allow custom/personalized detection models to be used.
