FRIGATE. An AI NVR with real time object detection. Part 1 - Overview, Install, and Setup.

In this series, I cover the FRIGATE NVR with AI. This first video is an overview of what Frigate is, how to set up the Home Assistant Add-On and integration, and basic configuration of your first camera.

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00:00 Intro
00:44 What is Frigate
03:03 Install the Add-On
06:15 Detectors
07:35 Start Frigate - Check Logs
08:12 Camera configuration
16:18 Zones and Masks Intro
20:10 Another RTSP path example
21:14 Install Frigate HACS Integration
24:25 Install Frigate HA Integration
25:35 Storage Space Considerations
27:19 Final Thoughts and Wrap

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[yourpalfranc]

This is interesting! While I'm generally pretty happy with Blue Iris. I don't even mind paying for it. I think it's great software. But, the one thing I dislike is that it only runs on Windows. I hate being forced to run and maintain a Windows machine when Linux is a better solution. So, I'll be constantly keeping my eyes open for a product that is at least comparable with BI but runs on Linux. It looks like Frigate might have a future! Looking forward to your upcoming videos. ~Frank

[EsotericArctos]

If your camera is mounted high up, but you still want human detection, you may need to set your detection stream to be a higher resolution. You have to just find that compromise on what your hardware can do. Now it is a year later, you don't need to manually add the repository in HACS, thank goodness. One less step to worry about :)
Thanks for a great video series on Frigate.

[sygad]

Thank you so much for this, i've tried many videos and this was the only one that I could get Frigate working with. I'll be jumping straight into the follow up videos.

[peterdierckx]

great video again....like all the others by the way. Using frigate for a while but it would be nice to do 24/7 recording on NAS-share instead of my 128gb mmc media folder

[RonnyRusten]

Excellent. I already had Frigate installed and set up, but thanks to your video I found out my camera has a substream. After some fiddling around, I found the url as well... Now my cpu is way less stressed out :-)

[bluegizmo]

Frigate is awesome. I started out by running on just CPU as well and it worked well, but I also bought a Coral to offload the work! With a Coral, you can add a lot of cameras at once and/or really crank up the motion detection settings so it's basically constantly looking for objects instead of just when it sees a good amount of motion! Also, Frigate Person Detection works nicely indoors in Home Assistant as a motion triggering sensor for an alarm integration! No more false alarms (literally) due to pets or shadows or whatever 😁

The Cat and Dog detections are a little wonky though. It constantly detects all my cats as dogs lol

[rebe]

Thanks for this very extensive explenation. 👍👍

[paulpringle]

Thank you very much for the video, it's very informational.

[sjnllp]

Great video, Thank You. Ran into the same issue where you cannot save to a different drive when using it as a NVR, which would have been handy specially if you do 24x7 recording even on the sub-stream

[arpanghosh.mk]

Dear chrish i have around 4000 square meter farm land and i installed 25 cctv camera throughout the premises. I want to use them to detect only person and use some of the camera to detect face using deepstack and some automation based on the detection.
So my query is should i use coral tpu r go for a graphic card and what kind of system ( cpu, gpu, ram) is required for this purpose. Thanks

[blakebowden]

Very interested in setting this up, however, I'm a little lost on exactly how and where it's being stored. I run HA on a VM via Synology, is there additional hardware that I'd need? Saw the part about the Coral, just not sure if I should run that via PC and then have it integrated through HA? Thanks, Chris

[zht]

If I'm not wrong, you're the only person who solved my doubt about the possibility to use Frigate for 24/7 recording like a real NVR. It looks like there is no way to store 24/7 recording on a surveillance hard drive which makes it so difficult for me to move from moving from blue iris to frigate. Wish there will be a linux version in future so that we can run it as a service in a VM with hard drive mounted. Damn.. I got several coral usb dongles but no way to use it...

[davidforbes]

Interesting clip, this is my first watch.... am interesting in Frigate so i need be more clear on these.... I got mini pc with Home Assistant and am i right add Frigate onto the same mini PC with Home assistant
OR
need other mini PC for Frigate NVR with bigger harddrive (called 'NVR' Mini PC) and link between Mini PC HA to MiniPC Frigate?

thinking of relaxing CPU there.

Correct?

[davidforbes]

Interesting video.. I am from UK, there so many PoE cameras and how do I know which cameras will have sub-stream & Rtmp support?
Do it have to be H.264 not H.265?

[diwashsapkota]

does home assistant green will support coral tpu?

[adamschneider]

So there is a product called pocket AI that has a ada A500 gpu that can connect via usb-c. Do you think this plus frigate, could the ada a500 gpu handle object detection and low light enhancement for an array of cameras?

Or is Frigate specifically designed for tensor?

[Kiloptero]

thanks again! a question.. im moving to a house.. looking for cameras and the reolink looks great.. due the constrain of chips its dif to get a coral.. its really needed to have a good frigate system?

[richardreina]

Great video. There is something I was hoping that you can clarify. In your frigate yml file you have settings for your detection, such as width, height, fps, lined up under ffmpeg. How does frigate know that these settings apply to your detection stream and not your recording stream? In the example on the frigate website they have those settings under detect; which is a role listed by the stream that detects. However, in your config I don't see that so I was wondering how it knows which stream those settings are for?

[tonygil]

Hi Chris, really like Frigate, but I have some cameras indoors where i only want detection at nights and during the the day switches off, How can i do that ?

[TorbenVring]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for yet another great video. Very hands on, and ready to be followed. I got Frigate set up in no time and loving it. But :-) after two days my Blue will no longer start up, and I'm suspecting it is due to a full drive. Have you heard about this before, and if possible, are able to point me in any directions, please? The Blue aquires an ip and is pingable for something like 10-20 secondes before rebooting.
Thanks from Torben in Denmark