I’m currently using Shinobi CCTV for my 4 cameras, but the UI is just a bit clunky and the Docker image isn’t actively updated
Frigate looks like a good potential replacement, but I don’t currently have a Coral TPU so I won’t be able to use object detection (too much of a CPU hit spikes the electricity bill)
Is anyone using it for just normal 24/7 recording without object detection?
If so, what’s it like? Docs say it records 1 minute segments which is fine for me
It’s all done in yaml, the documentation on the frigate website is a good place to start. Just set object detection to false.
I’ve just set it up and it seems excellent so far
Just having trouble with the env vars - it’s not accepting my custom vars for
{C1_PASSWORD}for example
Frigate gives you a lot of fine tune control on the detection, so with aggressive filtering you could have very limited object detection (for cases when somebody very close to it i.e. trying to peal of the camera).
I would also suggest enabling audio detection if you cameras have mics in them. Audio detection needs a negligible amounts of processing. Fire alarm audio detection should be on by default. You can add things like breaking glass as extra triggers.
Not enabling detection should work for you but to retain video records you would have to setup config globally or for individual cams:
record: enabled: true retain: days: 10 mode: allI would run both or if your cameras can not handle doubling streams just setup a demo in parallels on one of the cams, so you can test it.
I also find https://github.com/bairhys/prometheus-frigate-exporter very useful for longer term performance tuning.
Oh man where were you 6 hours ago hahaha
I was having a mare with the recording - I had it set to 0 days which I assumed meant “just fill the storage” but that’s completely wrong
Seems to be working great so far, gonna trial it for a week then decom my Shinobi
6 hours ago I was sleeping :D
It will ‘smartly’ delete footage if it fills storage, so if that is what your are looking you can test 9999 days and it should just delete oldest. However, I do not recommend filing storage device up to 100%. It is longevity thing.