Looking to change up my blue iris install to something more free. I’m going to be recording my house, my mother’s house and my in laws house all using tailscale. I planned on using frigate, even bought a Coral TPU for the human detection and a better motion detection. (At least I think it makes it better?) But not sure if this changed, I saw that frigate and TOU doesn’t do well in a VM (proxmox for me).

So two things:

  1. Curious what you run/suggest
  2. If you run frigate on a vm with a coral, how did pass through work?

Total between all houses, I’ll have 14 cameras recording off the bat, might add a few more over the years. I also have a gpu to handle the encoding and plenty of storage. Their upload speeds are ok too and my download speeds can handle it.

Thanks!

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    I am running Zoneminder. I have played with Frigate and it is not really production ready. And Zoneminder, while not fancy, works every time and has some of the best still pictures of anything out there. I will keep looking at the next new thing, but I am not shutting off Zoneminder until something is solidly batter.

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      I been using zoneminder for over a decade now and inertia is such a thing.

      I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends, maybe techie friends, but it is so hard to configure.

      I am about upgrade to a new ZM based on Rocky 9.

      I do run 40 monitors, I use substreams and link to the main stream. Home assistant had sensors that can trigger alerts, wrote my own front end to quickly move from scene to scene and to accommodate more than 6 monitors.

      I still have yet to master capturing video outdoors. It misses some stuff, but I have a backup video on other systems.

      Also would like to look at some of the ML stuff.

      I am going to reduce the amount of cameras though. After 10 years it is time to get rid of the BNC cameras.

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        I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends, maybe techie friends, but it is so hard to configure.

        I hear ya, but some of the new stuff is worse! It will get better, but then there is the next hurdle; stability. Zoneminder can run for months with no baby sitting… Other stuff, not so much. But I keep watching, and hoping!

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    I tried frigate on an Ubuntu server VM with coral and it did not work at all. coral kept getting frozen. The pass through sucks.

    If you can, run LXC or bare metal. I recommend Ubuntu server 20.04 (not 22.04) because it has the right python compatibility.

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        oh that’s really interesting - I didn’t even think of doing that. I should have clarified, USB pass through did not work for me, but I did not try GPU.

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          i bought a nvidia gtx 1060 on ebay used for $100. these older gpu are cheap, readily available and work just as well as the corals. seems like a win to me. that being said, not everyone has a system that can take a gpu (like a mini-pc), but if you can it’s a great option.

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      Interesting, I have the same setup (Ubuntu vm + passthrough) and it’s been steady since I got the python version issues resolved

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    Frigate with a PCIe Google Coral. Frigate running in a docker container inside a VM. Pass through both layers working perfectly fine.

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    Just dumped Blue Iris for Frigate this week. Running Frigate in LXC on Proxmox with coral and qsv passthrough. Frigate was easier to set up and configure than expected. Been running rock solid for 4 days now.

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    If you run frigate in an lxc container on proxmox you should be able to use any device visible to the host without worrying about pass through

    I myself have frigate running on docker running on unraid virtualised under proxmox with a gpu passed through and it works like a dream a

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        It is a one time payment and you can carry it over from device to devices. It is also not locked to a camera. And no monthly fee. After a couple of years you end up saving more if you do not replace a camera. Just the cost of power and spare HDD for when they eventually need replaced.

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        It’s a trade off – you can use very inexpensive cameras. With something like UniFi you pay for the license with the camera.

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    I have never heard of Frigate until a week ago now I cannot stop seeing it on Reddit. Weird how that works.

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      What do you use DW for? The cameras or their NVR? My FIL has it at his business and he has problems

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        I use it for the NVR with RTSP streams from Unifi or onvif setup directly from Hikvision cameras. Haven’t had any problems what’s up?

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    Running AgentDVR. used to use the docker container but moved to a machine with a GPU now so I get hardware encoded streams

    Even better combination with Home Assistant and one of the local AI providers

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    Ran Scrypted for most of this year. Just switched back to Blue Iris. Running CodeProject.ai with google coral, but also have frigate for the home assistant integration and might take the time to dial in sending motion alerts from frigate to BI to get rid of CP.ai

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      Scrypted is under appreciated. Getting the AppleTV to do facial recognition against your photos app, and then storing clips for free in iCloud is magical.

      It’s the only cloud-based camera storage solution I trust.

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        I was paying for 8 camera licenses for the NVR piece and can say it is too expensive for what it is. Not upset at all that I gave money to the dev, but can’t pay that much for an NVR every year. Blue Iris is still right on that line of too much for a self hosted solution when frigate is getting as good as it is, but mobile experience is smoother than anything else I’ve used, even if the UI is way too old at this point