Local Security Camera Recording with Frigate NVR

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2 жыл бұрын

Record your IP Security Camera footage locally with Frigate, running as a Home Assistant Add-On or on Docker.
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Why pay cloud companies a monthly fee for 24/7 recording when you can do it yourself? Why should a cloud company even get access to your footage?!
More videos in this series:
1. Frigate Basics (This video): • Local Security Camera ...
2. Tweaking Frigate to get the best performance: • How to properly set up...
3. Integrating Frigate into Home Assistant: • Frigate and Home Assis...
Links from the video:
Frigate website: frigate.video/
The Hook Up Security Camera comparisons: • Security Cameras
Installing MQTT: • MQTT and Home Assistant
Docker and Home Assistant: • Getting Started with H...

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@johntisbury Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, very useful and will be on my to-do list.

@MarkGhali 2 жыл бұрын

Love this series! I ditched blue iris for frigate and never looked back!

@mandeepmails 2 жыл бұрын

Superb. You definitely earned my sub.

@johnmalarstrom3598 2 жыл бұрын

You are damn good to get us non experienced users to get the grip! I love your videos! Can you please make a video on how to use external storage on Frigate in docker. I have been googling alot on how to make my docker compose file written to be able to connect to a nfs share on my synology nas. Please.

@miroslavknol4218 2 ай бұрын

Any solutions?

@heatherryan9820 2 жыл бұрын

I've got to Amcrest PTZ IP cameras and I'm fairly happy with them.

@making-memories-nl 10 ай бұрын

Freaking awesome. Thank you again.

@HomeAutomationGuy 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@EsotericArctos Жыл бұрын

Unifi are a good camera, but I have found them to be expensive for what they are also and the RTSP stream is not always reliable from Unifi Protect, depending on what they do in the next firmware update. If you have Unifi Protect cameras, I would just recommend by a Cloudkey Gen 2+ and use the Protect software. If you have a Google Coral TPU, that will dramatically reduce the CPU Usage on your NVR, though they are still close to impossible to buy. Frigate is the most accurate I have used, better than Deepstack with Blue Iris and better than any onboard camera AI I ahve tested. Mine does get a false positive, but I corrected with masking as it is a shadow from a tree that gets picked up as "human" due to it's shape. Other than that, so far no false positives and also so far less missed events than other solutions.

@nrnoble 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! 👍and subscribed.

@Skyelightzofficial Жыл бұрын

Its also worth noting that on the add-on page if you dont see frigate listed you need to clear your browser cache or open a new connection in a private browser tab so that it will populate. This goes for any newly installed add-ons, try this first before deeper troubleshooting. Saved me some serious headaches lol.

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@alan123hvy7 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@drharis Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy I already have a wired CCTV setup with NVR. I am planning to upgrade with newer cameras. I was wondering if I can use my current NVR as it is for 24/7 recordings, separate from Home Assistant and still link the cameras with Frigate on HA to do all the AI things and automations? Appreciate your reply

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

@@drharis That's what I do! As long as your NVR supports RTSP streams or your cameras do you should be good to go

@drharis Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thank you so much for your quick reply! Your videos are awesome! Just started off with HA 2 weeks ago after ditching ST. Huge learning curve :)

@darrylturner7622 2 жыл бұрын

This is my next project 👏

@darrylturner7622 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly the old laptop i use for docker and home assistant does not work with frigate by the looks

@mauricejoy3432 Жыл бұрын

Watching some of your other videos on NVR, which do you prefer...frigate or blue iris with deepstack and the AI helper. Sticking to docker as much as possible. I understand BI will need to run on a windows PC or VM

@ronbrown4551 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this. I had a really hard time setting this up before, but after following this I was finally able to get it up and running. Do you happen to know how to get audio to the cameras ? I checked on the Frigate page and I tried adding in the code, but it didn't work. I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

@alexhope212009 16 күн бұрын

For the docker setup the permissions on the files in those volumes are important or you will have problems with playback.

@gibberingidiot Жыл бұрын

Frigate is obviously a great product because so many of the HA youtubers I follow praise it, but I just cannot get past the hassle of installing. 2 hours of tearing my hair out and googling vague error messages or troubleshooting white space so far to get to a point that a single web page config editor should have been able to do for me within 5 minutes of loading the docker image. I'm using Agent DVR at the moment, which has HA integration and actually has a nice if cluttered GUI install, but I wanted to see what Frigate has in addition to offer. The answer seems to be nothing unless you have hours to spend and enjoy typing in vi - and that's not me any more I'm afraid.

@Johnsmith-uc9df 2 жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for the great content. Dam I’ve got those Reolink h265 too, which camera did you go with.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I'm using Unifi G4 Bullets and G3 Flex

@mrxmry3264 Жыл бұрын

1:59 and those are 2 of many damn good reasons to go local.

@louisviciedo 11 ай бұрын

great video , how do you take a clip that you want to retain from HAS and copy it to another HDD?

@dakisarampatzis7282 Жыл бұрын

Hello there!!! great tutorial !!! Can you please tell me why i couldn't install the docker container.... it always sent a message in the logs that killing the signal and exit

@ryanandrewbaker 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video. I've just got Frigate (reasonably) stable on my rpi4, but it's making me want to upgrade to a faster PC since I can't get a coral anywhere.

@TamerSalah1982 2 жыл бұрын

its not that good even on faster pc , same glitches happens but yes faster to respond

@woutb7800 10 ай бұрын

The creating a config file shapter is changed. On the site it says now configuring go2rtc. The configuring MQTT server explain is gone. How to slove this with Home Assist addon?

@johnadams1976 15 күн бұрын

great video - thanks... got it up and running... but want to change the location of where records are stored... I added this to the config: record: enabled: True path: /media/CCTV/ but it won't start up saying, cameras -> mycam -> record -> path extra fields not permitted (type=value_error.extra) Any ideas!? Thanks

@user-ke1qj4nk2z 10 ай бұрын

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@bernisworlds 2 жыл бұрын

Q: how you handle PTZ Control with different PoE Camera in HA?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I am not sure how to do that, I don't have any PTZ cameras to test with

@aligzl Жыл бұрын

most cameras has built in mic and speaker .can I use this functions to speak with comers in door front

@hfislwpa 11 ай бұрын

How did you know what the rtsp url was? Other than ofc the ip of the camera. Can't figure out that last suffix 😅

@DwarDPT Жыл бұрын

I got 2 Reolink rlc-810a and a rlc-822a only "65. Is this still a NO go? :( And thanks for the nice video! I want to run Home assitant on my Unraid server. Is it best to run Frigate "inside" HA or on Unraid itself?

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

The Frigate website/documentation mentions what you should or shouldn't do when it comes to using virtualization

@navarrolux 10 ай бұрын

I love the video, but is it possible to add Nest cameras? I am not able to find the RTSP URL for those.

@HomeAutomationGuy 10 ай бұрын

I don't know about Nest cameras. Most of those devices don't give you direct access to the streams

@BlenderGamerFreaq Жыл бұрын

I can't seem to figure out how to save the recording to an External HDD. I've plugged in the HDD to my NUC running Home Assistant, but how do I tell Frigate to save the recording on the HDD instead of the NUC HDD?

@distinctrecreation Жыл бұрын

will frigate work on rpi4 8gb on ssd 128gb with HAOS? i need only for 2x cams...

@gnospanker 9 ай бұрын

Good video! Question though... I currently have HA running on a Pi4. If I want to use Frigate do I need to upgrade my HA hardware, or should I run Frigate on a separate computer and the Pi will still be ok?

@HomeAutomationGuy 9 ай бұрын

I would run Frigate on a separate computer and the Pi will behave as it does now

@gnospanker 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, that's what I was thinking! Also, if I were to get a thin client PC (Dell Optiplex 7060 i5) would I still have better HA performance (than the Pi) if HA and Frigate were running on it? I'll probably eventually have 6 cameras.@@HomeAutomationGuy

@HomeAutomationGuy 9 ай бұрын

@@gnospankerthe i5 would handle Frigate, HA and many other things perfectly. Either run HA OS on it, or look at my Docker or Proxmox videos for other ways you can get the most out of that hardware! All the best with it!

@gnospanker 9 ай бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy thanks so much, I love your videos, keep up the good work!

@richardstrange8127 Жыл бұрын

Please help, I am struggling with getting frigate to work in docker. I have been trying for weeks. If it’s possible can you do a one to one with me and I will pay for your time to get this installed and working please

@netblue 2 жыл бұрын

I am curious as to what is the advantage over Protect and how did you get your Unifi cameras to run without it. Protect comes with my Dream machine ,integrates directly with HA and does pretty much the same ,except maybe true live stream in HA ,there is a delay both in the glance card or when streaming.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I find the object detection capabilities in Frigate to be much more customisable, and therefore accurate. The protect has sent me a lot of false positives and therefore a lot of unnecesary push notifications. To be honest, I don't think the delay in HA with Frigate is any better than it is with Protect natively.

@netblue 2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy Makes sense ,that I can agree with ,protect could use some (a lot of) work on their detection algorithm .

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

@@netblue Annnnnddd.... The most accurate answer is that I really enjoy playing with these nerdy systems :D

@alex75hgft Жыл бұрын

Did you configure your unifi cameras with it? Did you use the RTSP feed from Protect or did you put the cameras in standalone mode?

@sander6068 Жыл бұрын

Thx for the great tutorials keep it coming!! Since you are also using unifi camera's i cannot get it to work the image always stays green and its throwing me errors on frigate.video ERROR : ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread... Any help?

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

This happened to me too with a recent update of the Unifi firmware. I had to add the -an switch to the ffmpeg section of my Frigate config file to fix this. This disables the audio stream from the camera and fixed it for me. You can find my full config file on my blog post about Frigate: www.homeautomationguy.io/home-assistant-tips/tweaking-frigate-to-get-the-best-results/

@alex75hgft Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy same here, thanks for the tip about input_arg: -an, that allowed the video to be displayed, shame the audio is disabled. In standalone mode they work fine without needing to disable audio.

@tsgeekk 2 жыл бұрын

Did you have to change any settings on your Unifi Protect cameras to get the rtsp playback to work? I can't get them to stream in VLC, much less Frigate. I get no response. No error. Not anything. I saw that a lot of people are having issues with rtsp since a recent Unifi update. Unfortunately there are dozens of different ways they've tried to work around it, but nothing seems useful to me. Did you need to configure anything to get the rtsp feed to work?

@tsgeekk 2 жыл бұрын

OK, I found the problem. I missed the part of the workaround where you change the default rtsps feed port #. Default feed from Unifi Protect: rtsps://192.168.x.x:7441/?enableSrtp Fixed stream in Frigate config: rtsp://192.168.x.x:7447/ I missed the part about changing the port from 7441 to 7447. I've been banging my head against the wall for 4-5 days. Ugh. Otherwise, is there anything we are missing by NOT using the secure rtsps stream? As long as I have my cameras on a separate vlan that don't access the internet, does the extra security matter? If so, is there a know way to keep the rtsps version of the stream in Frigate?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Mine worked fine using the default RTSPS stream and port, so I'm not sure. RTSP will be fine for most home network setups, all the data is staying locally so it's probably ok not to use an encrypted stream

@crc-error-7968 Жыл бұрын

Hello, do you know if it is possible to use a zigbee motion sensor (or other) to start recording/snapshots instead of the internal detector?

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

I am not sure if it is possible.

@crc-error-7968 Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy It would be great if in future the developer will add some a sort of external input(like a command via mqtt) as detector. A motion sensor use less energy than a cpu or a coral. Ok it is less accurate and can spot false positives, but it is a way faster

@MrSupersidewinder 2 жыл бұрын

I'm running a bare minimum system, old dual core AMD/64 WITH 2 GIGS OF RAM. Docker-compose setup. Trying to decide on a light camera solution. I already have 6 cameras two 720p and 4 Sd... I don't want to tax my HA server too much... My choices appear to be. He's Foscam integration (which would offer pan/tilt with no recording), Friggate, Motioneye, or Zoneminder. Could I use Friggate without the AI overhead on this hardware??? I am running HA on a 1T drive so I have local fast storage space..

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I believe you can run it without the AI overhead. But it is designed to be used as an object detection system, so perhaps one of your other options would be better for your usecase if you only want recording.

@claylanford4252 2 ай бұрын

Currently considering running Frigate connected to HA. My home network is a Mesh Wifi with wireless backhaul to primary router. Do you see any issue with simply adding a mesh node with LAN ports nearby where I want my cameras to be, and running the cameras via the LAN ports there with POE injectors (or POE switch connected to the LAN port of a mesh node)? Or is a wireless camera possible and stable with Frigate?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 ай бұрын

The mesh mode with LAN ports is a good idea. WiFi cameras are probably fine if they're not battery powered.

@claylanford4252 2 ай бұрын

@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks. Certainly wireless is easier and cheaper for me: they'll be wired to power. But the idea of adding a mesh node just for a camera is a bit expensive 🤣 So maybe I'll try a wireless setup first and go from there. Any recommendation for a WiFi camera that runs well with Frigate? Seems a lot of the nice new ones are going with H.265 support which I guess won't play nicely with Frigate?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 ай бұрын

@@claylanford4252 I don't have any recommendations I'm afraid, but I am told that H.265 is supported with Frigate

@stoneobscurity 2 жыл бұрын

h265 works fine with frigate for recording, the issue playing back files. since only apple devices support native h265 playback. most browsers do not. windows and android do not.

@stoneobscurity 2 жыл бұрын

good luck with video #2, when you explain that corals are near impossible to find.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

Yeh, it's really annoying. I ran mine with a CPU detector for 6 months and it worked pretty decently. I did notice the cooling fan spin up whenever an object detection process was running though!

@patrickburton6130 5 күн бұрын

Nice tutorial, but I would like to set up Frigate independent from HA on UnRaid and have Frigate Proxy feed from UnRaid to HA. I can find no info on how to do this.

@HomeAutomationGuy Күн бұрын

Take a look at my Frigate on Proxmox video. It may give you some pointers for how to do it on UnRaid

@camranh_royal Жыл бұрын

Is the Brand Frigate from chyyyna?

@renesrensen1928 Жыл бұрын

Possibility to change the source folder where frigate files are located (clips, recordings and snapshots)

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

Yes, you'll need to remap or link the /media directory

@simondkkaj143 Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy how?

@kylegurney8610 Жыл бұрын

Should I stay away from Reolink ecosystem if i want to use frigate? I am interested in the Doorbell and a few of their 8MP rotating cameras

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

If you go with reolink, just make sure they support RTSP streams at H.264

@dominicfindlay Жыл бұрын

I have some reolink cameras, I believe you can reduce the resolution and it will output h264. Haven't started working on frigate yet for my system yet, so I can't say it defo will work.

@MiasmaFPV 2 жыл бұрын

I love frigate, I just wish the mobile experience was a bit better.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

That's very true!

@TheKeirsunishi 10 ай бұрын

I had to add the retain x amount of days to get constant recording to work

@HomeAutomationGuy 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, and helping out other viewers! A few things have changed in Frigate since this was recorded, but the theory remains the same

@TheKeirsunishi 10 ай бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy I thought as much, although the docs don't say you need to add it, they say the default was 10 days🤔🤔🤔

@ciscoicnd1261 2 жыл бұрын

can you send the link for the website that you copied the url from?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

The links to everything should be in the video description. Did I miss one?

@peteradshead2383 2 жыл бұрын

The don't get a x265 camera I know is right , you can record in x265 , but not play it back unless you re-encode it to x264.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

It works in the Edge browser, but I had tons of problems with it.

@peteradshead2383 2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy Things must have change then ?, because when I tried it with my x265 camera it would only play back on my ipad and would not play back on ANY browser on Windows or Linux . AND would crash my computer after a few days with a kernel panic due to hardware encoding and completely lock up. So my x265 camera is not on frigate, but pointing at my car in the drive, and set with a alarm on person detection mode at night , It will not record , but having a siren going off if a person goes down the drive at night , that should give them a nice little scare.

@Ri-eb1ns Жыл бұрын

How do you get by the fact that Windows is not designed to be on 24/7 it restarts for updates every few days no matter what you’re doing.

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

I don't run it on windows

@aligzl Жыл бұрын

i want to use 5 Poe cameras but home assistant and frigate server PC has 2 NIC. how to connect them? Poe switch or what?

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

You will need a PoE switch

@aligzl Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy 👍 thanks

@rrpedrigal 2 жыл бұрын

@5:07 How powerful the CPU should be? Can you give specs? Thanks.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I have an Intel Core i5 3.8Ghz in my NUC which has worked perfectly fine for three cameras

@rrpedrigal 2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy This is without using AI accelerator?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

@@rrpedrigal Yes. I used this for a few months without the AI accelerator on the same hardware. It did spike to 100% CPU and engage the CPU Fan each time it ran a detection though.

@rrpedrigal 2 жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thank you. I might upgrade my CPU because I can't find coral anywhere on the planet.

@reno.zed1 3 ай бұрын

Hello, anyone can suggest a good camera that can use an open source firmware?

@harrycoffey9427 3 ай бұрын

Raspberry pi camera from amazon or any camera with a ribbon cable that can be attached to a raspberry pi or the other option is a IP CAMERA

@tkamen 2 жыл бұрын

Love the concept of the series, but I'm concerned that you didn't frontload your viewers realistic expectations of how CPU taxing frigate AI detection is if you don't have an edge TPU. I imagine this will be talked about in the next video but given that finding an edge TPU is practically impossible right now it makes the AI features of frigate basically useless without serious compute power. The frigate devs even say in the beginning of the documentation that CPU detect is not recommended and only meant for testing purposes.

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

That's a fair call out, I appreciate the comment. But honestly, I was running CPU detection on my Intel i5 NUC with two 720p cameras and one SD cam for months and it worked pretty well. I did notice the CPU cooling fan kicking in a lot, but that was the only down side. I managed to find a USB TPU for an extortionate price on eBay since then and I wouldn't say it's increased the response time or accuracy. It has definitely kept the cooling fan off though!

@NadimAJ 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this guys. I'm planning on using an old DL360 for 6 cameras in 1080, will report later

@bsilva11 Жыл бұрын

@@NadimAJ so how it going?

@NadimAJ Жыл бұрын

@@bsilva11 Decided on local SD cards in the end. Don't laugh!

@anyone510 5 ай бұрын

Will 8700g work for this.

@bat3332 2 жыл бұрын

Hi I have taken your advice and ordered an raspberry pi. Eagerly waiting for it to be delivered . My first project would be your reminding to take cloth out of washing machine one. I might need lot of help since i have never used home assistant or raspberry pi. I will be in touch with lot questions for now just raring to jump in to home assistant

@ayan.debnath 2 жыл бұрын

Can Rasberry Pi 4 handle it?

@HomeAutomationGuy 2 жыл бұрын

It will probably work if you only have one camera, but I wouldn't suggest that it is the best option.

@rpmcmurfee Ай бұрын

Louis, sorry - VLC Media Player??

@HomeAutomationGuy Ай бұрын

Aha

@Skovkid Жыл бұрын

i just get a green screen from the camera

@HomeAutomationGuy Жыл бұрын

That means you've set something up wrong in your switches

@Skovkid Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy i cant seem to figure it out even after i watched multiple videos and read multiple forums without luck

@Skovkid Жыл бұрын

@@HomeAutomationGuy if i use homeassistant in docker, do i have to install mqtt via compose or can i use the mqtt from homeassistant ?

@smartassist9700 Жыл бұрын

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