Frigate NVR

A complete CCTV system that is integrated into Home Assistant, This was impart inspired by the lack luster results from motion eye with it's integrated Object Detection

installation

I run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 4gb. Looking at it's current resource usage,

I wanted to see how'd it would handle a couple camera feeds with Frigate

Camera Config

check the frigate.yaml

mqtt:
	# same IP as HAOS. Using Mosquitto add-on
  host: 192.168.0.0 
  # I set a user up as a basic HA user with login
  user: USERNAME
  password: PASSWORD
cameras:
	# Tapo Camera
  foyer: 
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@cam-1.lan/stream2
          roles:
            - rtmp
            - record
            - detect
    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 720
    record:
      enabled: True
      retain:
        days: 0
        mode: all
    
	# USB Camera
  livingroom:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
      - path: /dev/video0
        roles:
          - rtmp
          - detect
          - record
      input_args: -f video4linux2 -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1
    detect:
      width: 640
      height: 480
      
database:
  path: /config/frigate.db

First Impressions

setting up my cheap Tapo C200 camera via RTSP, and USB PlayStation Eye camera was fairly strait forward

Home Assistant Notifications

Here is a premade automation blueprint by hunterjm)- Frigate Notification Blueprint (github.com)

Troubleshooting

frigate.comms.mqtt             ERROR   : Unable to publish to stats: client is not connected

I never set up a MQTT server so I just installed the mosquitto) addon available inside of Home Assistant.

Docker Container

For those who installed Home Assistant Containered version, Frigate must be installed like so

compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # this may not be necessary for all setups
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    shm_size: "64mb" # update for your cameras based on calculation above
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb # passes the USB Coral, needs to be modified for other versions
      - /dev/apex_0:/dev/apex_0 # passes a PCIe Coral, follow driver instructions here https://coral.ai/docs/m2/get-started/#2a-on-linux
      - /dev/dri/renderD128 # for intel hwaccel, needs to be updated for your hardware
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./config:/config
      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
      - "8554:8554" # RTSP feeds
      - "8555:8555/tcp" # WebRTC over tcp
      - "8555:8555/udp" # WebRTC over udp
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "password"

nest a ./config/config.yml to setup cameras

MQTT Broker

follow the Mosquitto MQTT Broker article if you need to setup a stand alone MQTT broker

Credits