Curious
Is there benefit of using frigate vs Camera with embedded AI?
Or do you get effectively same result
About hw decodingā¦ Iām trying to use face recogniction but as Frigate is sending sub-stream (no decoding/detect on main-stream) snapshots to MQTT iām getting kind of odd results.
When using MAIN stream my CPU freaks out and Frigate become instable.
Iām using my HA on my NUC with a Intel i5 CPU.
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50Ghz
My settings in ffmpeg is as follows:
ffmpeg:
hwaccel_args:
- -hwaccel
- vaapi
- '-hwaccel_device'
- /dev/dri/renderD128
- '-hwaccel_output_format'
- yuv420p
Any recommendations for ffmpeg?
I was thinking about the cameras with embedded AIs this week as well. However realized Frigate NVR works with pretty much any camera that can stream video via mpeg. Cameras with embedded AI are purpose bought for a location, more expensive, and may need to write your own integration of rest calls to get any info from them. I think each has their place, but right now Frigate is more approachable for the average person who already has cameras set up. Iād be more apt to use normal cameras outside and around the property with Frigate, and maybe an indoor camera or two with AI.
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Itās unlikely you will be able to integrate them as nicely into homeassistant. Maybe one day there will be open source firmware for AI cameras. Also, by performing AI in one centralized location, you donāt need the extra hardware duplicated on each camera itself.
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Hi guys.
I donāt know Docker well, maybe you can help ā¦
Is it possible to change the storage path for snapshots? Instead of / media / frigate / recordings -
/home / frigate / recordings in
into an additional hard drive? sdb4 to the Home directory.
System: Debian / hassio (docker) / Home Assistant Add-on: Frigate NVR
Sorry for the bad english.
What are you using for face recognition? :>
Normally you can just bind mount the folder where you want
-v /home/frigate/recordings:/media/frigate/recordings
I guess itās now encouraged to use āmountā instead ov ā-vā but you both current should work Iād imagine
Iād also like to know if anyone has gotten google coral to work on HassOS VM installation on a NUC!
Hi, i have few hikvision AI camera running with frigate. U just cant compare them with frigate . Frigate is miles ahead compared to built in AI camera in term of accuracy, integration, flexibility and cost.
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Hi there,
I am having issue with frigate: it was running fine, run a dist-upgrade and now I canāt start anymore frigate.
This is what I get when I try
sudo docker-compose up
Starting frigate ... error
ERROR: for frigate Cannot start service frigate: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:545: container init caused: Running hook #0:: error running hook: exit status 127, stdout: , stderr: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 538: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `ELFW(R_TYPE) (reloc->r_info) == R_X86_64_RELATIVE' failed!: unknown
ERROR: for frigate Cannot start service frigate: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:545: container init caused: Running hook #0:: error running hook: exit status 127, stdout: , stderr: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 538: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `ELFW(R_TYPE) (reloc->r_info) == R_X86_64_RELATIVE' failed!: unknown
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.
do you have any hint?
I`m running 4 cams ( 3 are 1080p ) and inference is 9ms on t430
Sweet, thanks for the info exactly what I needed to hear! Grabbing a Coral is the next step. Should be able to add in my other two 1080p cameras no problem.
Wonder what else these t430s would be good for, been highly impressed running Home Assistant OS on it for the last day.
I spent the last 3 days trying to make that work and could not get it to work on a ProxMox host. Hour and hoursā¦ I just moved Frigate to a docker container running on a different NUC where my USB coral devices is easy to pass through to the container.
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Just upgraded to Home Assistant 2021.6.2 and the Frigate integration is no longer working. Home Assistant says it canāt load it. Iāll delete it and re-add it but just curious if anyone else experienced this?
Hunch would be youāre not running the latest Frigate integration addon - there were some changes that required a version key, otherwise loading is prevented.
" * Updates for HA 2021.6 compatibility"
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Yup that is probably it then. Iāll reinstall it today. Thanks!
Hi,
please ss there any possibility to check if the camera is online a itās streaming? Could Frigate do this via MQTT? I need to send a notification if the connection to a network camera is lost (someone cut a wire, etc.)
Thank you.
As my frigate ācrashesā without warning I made a automation when coral inference sensor is āunavailableā
Iāve done it like thisā¦ You should be abale to change the sensor to camera FPS detection easy.
alias: 'Frigate Notify if down '
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: sensor.coral1_inference_speed
to: unavailable
for: '00:02:00'
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g998b
data:
message: Frigate DOWN! Restarting in 1 min.
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 1
seconds: 0
milliseconds: 0
- service: hassio.addon_restart
data:
addon: ccab4aaf_frigate
- service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g998b
data:
message: Frigate Restarting!!
mode: single
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Iām using the double-take as frontend for my Face detectionā¦
And CompreFace face recognition as a docker. Its not the best choice as it not that accurate. 
iām thinking of getting one from ebay
Quick question, is the internal storage upgradeable?
Canāt really find much detail for t430