frigate

A number of users have posted their experiences so far on the GitHub discussion - https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#... - https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#... - https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#... - https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#... I have found my frigate+ model to be much more accurate and crazy good even at night. Will be curious how things change when it snows here more often, since I've not submitted any examples of winter at this house yet.

According to the author of that PR, they're using 10% of 1 NPU core on 3 cameras: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382#issueco... The bottleneck instead will probably be the video stream decoding speed, especially as the SoC's hardware decoder isn't being used yet.

I believe you can trigger recording with mqtt, so you could make an automation for it. You could try to bump this https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/2590#issue.... You could even try to use ai to write the feature. There's only been one incident where I would have liked continuous, I've tweaked events to be more than enough.

Consider checking if you can compute everything on a single Orange Pi 5 first. It seems that preliminary support has been merged! https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382

One of the most popular uses I've seen for Coral, Frigate for object detection for security cameras, recently added support for the RK3588 NPUs too: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382 . I think it requiring a RK3588 makes it a bit annoying to have to upgrade your entire setup just for this though.

Bosch, Hanwha, Axis, Ubiquiti/UniFi. I personally prefer Bosch and Hanwha cameras. Great optics, low light performance and solid firmware. Axis tends to be expensive and low light performance is not as good, for the price. UniFi Protect cameras are decent, but the standalone firmware is rather limited. I connect these cameras to Frigate[1] locally. Some example model numbers: Bosch Flexidome IP Starlight 6000 Dome Security Camera - NIN63023A3; Hanwha Techwin XNO-8080R WiseNet X Series Network Bullet Camera 5MP 3.7-9.4mm; AXIS P1468-LE Bullet Camera I usually find these on eBay. [1] https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate

These have been huge for things like Home Assistant and object detection in real time video processing via Frigate and Google Coral TPU Accelerator. It sure cut down on the false positives I was getting for detecting cars and people coming up my driveway and not deer or my dog walking across it. They're only about $100 and come in M.2 and USB form factors. https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate