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Frigate as my NVR - 16 channel PoE Cameras, High Level Questions (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by TheTuxdude@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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We are re-doing our home network, running 10Gig capable wiring throughout, using (existing) switches with 1G ports for the time being but a few years down the line switch to 10G ports, and more relevant to this question, installing 16 PoE Amcrest IP cameras.

I looked at pre-built NVR hardware solutions like QNAP, Synology, etc. but they seem less attractive to me in general. Given I already have a lot of self-hosted solutions in my home, this will be one additional thing I can easily manage.

I was considering getting a mini PC box (beelink, minisforum, etc.) to run Frigate. Also ordered Coral accelerator to speed up some of the ML based analysis.

I had a few basic questions:

  1. How do people store the streams from the camera that Frigate subscribes to? I was considering storing this in my in-network NAS. I have few zfs volumes on one of my machines which I use as my NAS, but not sure if there is a different recommended NAS storage that works better with Frigate?

  2. I have Home Assistant running on my Raspberry Pi in the network. To what level does Frigate integrate with NAS?

  3. How are all of you interacting with Frigate? Browser, mobile app, TV, etc. ?

  4. What kinds of notification mechanisms Frigate supports - email, push notifications, etc. ? I guess Home Assistant can be used for this part?

  5. Am I doing something against the grain here? Anything simpler I should be considering?

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[–] SpongederpSquarefap@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How do people store the streams from the camera that Frigate subscribes to? I was considering storing this in my in-network NAS. I have few zfs volumes on one of my machines which I use as my NAS, but not sure if there is a different recommended NAS storage that works better with Frigate?

Local storage on my host (4TB SSD in my case, but a 4TB drive would work fine)

I have Home Assistant running on my Raspberry Pi in the network. To what level does Frigate integrate with NAS?

Aside from compute and storage from running the container on there? Not much

How are all of you interacting with Frigate? Browser, mobile app, TV, etc. ?

The web server it provides works great for playback of footage, clips and exporting video

It's also excellent for editing the config

What kinds of notification mechanisms Frigate supports - email, push notifications, etc. ? I guess Home Assistant can be used for this part?

Anything that works with MQTT should work

Am I doing something against the grain here? Anything simpler I should be considering?

Everything seems sane so far, just read the Frigate docs and you'll be fine