<story><title>Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection</title><url>https://frigate.video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>preek</author><text>I’ve been using Frigate for six months on a raspberry pi 4 with a Google Coral TPU. It’s connected to 2 network cameras streaming in 2mp each.&lt;p&gt;Frigate standalone works super smooth with no hiccups at all. I am using object detection for people and have not yet had a false positive or false negative. Additionally, I record not only the events, but but also a 24&amp;#x2F;7 video. Frigate takes care of garbage collecting old assets.&lt;p&gt;I have it hooked up to my Home Assistant running on the same raspberry pi. From there, I get notifications to my phone which include a live video, snapshot and video recording. The UX and configuration options are way better than any commercial end user product I have found.&lt;p&gt;It’s been a literal lifesaver, also fun and easy to use. Would recommend 10 of 10. I have no affiliation with the maintainers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aspos</author><text>I use Homeassistant and Frigate on a $100 x86 noname micro-machine with five 4K cameras and it is awesome. CPU use does not go above 10%.
Would not claim zero false positives though. However, it is smart enough to filter out non-moving false positives which many cmmercial-grade systems can not, lol.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t say it saved my life, but I programmed my smart bulbs to go red if a bear was spotted in any frame in the past 30 min though.&lt;p&gt;Frigate is great and worth of praise.</text></comment>
<story><title>Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection</title><url>https://frigate.video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>preek</author><text>I’ve been using Frigate for six months on a raspberry pi 4 with a Google Coral TPU. It’s connected to 2 network cameras streaming in 2mp each.&lt;p&gt;Frigate standalone works super smooth with no hiccups at all. I am using object detection for people and have not yet had a false positive or false negative. Additionally, I record not only the events, but but also a 24&amp;#x2F;7 video. Frigate takes care of garbage collecting old assets.&lt;p&gt;I have it hooked up to my Home Assistant running on the same raspberry pi. From there, I get notifications to my phone which include a live video, snapshot and video recording. The UX and configuration options are way better than any commercial end user product I have found.&lt;p&gt;It’s been a literal lifesaver, also fun and easy to use. Would recommend 10 of 10. I have no affiliation with the maintainers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giobox</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve also used the same solution, although I ended up scaling from a Pi to a larger 13th gen Intel box with two USB Corals due to number of cameras. It&amp;#x27;s been ridiculously reliable running from a docker compose stack for years now, including using Watchtower to auto-upgrade the Frigate container. It&amp;#x27;s really easy to map the corals via docker compose as well.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s nuts how cheaply you can make such a good system with AI-detection features, its more than paid for itself vs commercial options with monthly fees. High quality weatherproof PoE cameras are crazy affordable now too, and you can VLAN them off your home network with no connection to the internet to further harden the system.</text></comment>