Is anyone using Frigate CCTV without using object detection? reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-13 22:00 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- griphon31 · 2023-11-13 22:44 Have an Intel iGPU? 0.12 can use that for the ai ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-13 22:45 Afraid not, it's a Xeon in an HP DL360 G9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Popwar0012 · 2023-11-13 23:12 It's all done in yaml, the documentation on the frigate website is a good place to start. Just set object detection to false. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-14 01:01 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PovilasID · 2023-11-14 09:04 It is not only iGPU check for compatibility with openvino for your specific CPU. I think a few models have that support but it is unlikely. Though for recording you should not need it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PovilasID · 2023-11-14 09:16 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: all I 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](https://github.com/bairhys/prometheus-frigate-exporter) very useful for longer term performance tuning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-11-14 09:41 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-14 10:29 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-14 10:39 Unfortunately my CPU is too old for openvino Like you said, not really an issue with direct recording ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PovilasID · 2023-11-14 10:41 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SpongederpSquarefap · 2023-11-14 11:55 For anyone else struggling, you can't define custom variables I've had to put plain text secrets in for now which isn't ideal but it works