Frigate

Frigate is another docker based install. I run it as part of the compose file that also includes Home Assistant.

Grab the image

It was about 1.7GB.

sudo docker pull ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable

Create a dataset on our ZFS volume

Not strictly necessary, but at the moment I want to keep this data separate until my configuration is stable. This makes it easier to push elsewhere if I want.

If yamato_storage is mounted at /path/to/storage so this will end up in /path/to/storage/frigate-media.

sudo zfs create yamato_zpool/frigate-media

Create a volume for configuration storage

sudo docker volume create frigate-config

Write a docker compose file

TODO

volumes:
  frigate-config:
    driver: local
    name: frigate-config
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    cap_add:
      - CAP_PERFMON
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    shm_size: "2gb"
    volumes:
      - '/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro'
      - 'frigate-config:/config'
      - '/mnt/cf400/frigate-media:/media'
      - type: tmpfs
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0
      - /dev/apex_0
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: <password>

Configure your cameras

Recommendation seems to be to use a main recording stream at full resolution. Then a smaller substream at something like 720p for motion detection. See Cameras.

Write a frigate config

The Getting started guide has it a lot more step by step which is a good way to go to test things.

Once you get a basic config working you can use the web interface (port 5000) to modify the config and restart Frigate.