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@@ -4,12 +4,9 @@
-WORK IN PROGRESS
-WORK IN PROGRESS
-WORK IN PROGRESS
-
# Purpose & Overview
+
Managing security cameras - recording, detection, notifications.
@@ -22,7 +19,7 @@ and its app.
Frigate offers powerful **AI object detection**, by using OpenCV and Tensorflow.
In contrast to cameras of old time which just detect movement,
-Frigate can recognize if object in view is a cat, a car or a human.
+Frigate can recognize if object in view moving is a cat, a car or a human.
This detection is cpu heavy and to ease the load
[Google Coral TPU](https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware#google-coral-tpu)
@@ -35,7 +32,7 @@ as a detector.
But do not have too high expectations. False positives are plenty,
especially when shadows are present. Same with not detecting a cat when
one sits right there. Config allows for some improvements and the AI model will
-likely get better with time too.
+likely get better with time too.
Open source, written in Python and JavaScript.
@@ -58,29 +55,53 @@ Open source, written in Python and JavaScript.
+### To consider...
+
+Is it worth investing time and hardware?
+
+Modern commercial camera systems offer similar AI aided objects
+detection, while maintaining the configurability. Phone apps are also often
+far better.
+Meanwhile Frigate lacks even proper ptz control.
+One should view it as a few people hobby project on github,
+though exceptionally well done.
+
+An NVR, for example Dahua `DHI-NVR2108HS-8P-S3` costs less than 200€,
+and it comes with **POE for 8 cameras**.
+It might be worth considering to just get an NVR that you lock out of
+the internet with VLANs or firewall rules... than buying a separate PC for
+Frigate and a separate poe switch to keep the 24/7 cameras traffic away from your
+main LAN and Coral TPU... and whatnot.
+
+On the other hand, setting Frigate up provides knowledge and the feeling of
+being more in control, with more flexibility, when it does not tight you
+to a manufacturer and the hardware used can be repurposed at any time.
+
# Cameras choice
+
+
+
[Frigate got a page for that.](https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/)
My opinion
* **Dahua** - If you got decent budget, they have good stuff and very rich configuration.
Going for that 1/1.8" sensor for good low light performance with IR being off,
- though dont expect magic. I also dealt with hikvision and sunell and dahua
- felt most solid and modern.
-* The cameras I am actually playing with are cheap **TP-Link** 4MP cameras.
- I do not have issues with them. Followed frigates
+ though dont expect magic.
+* **TP-Link** are the cameras I am actually playing with, cheap 4MP.
+ No issues with them. Followed frigates
[brand specific configuration](https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/camera_specific/#tp-link-vigi-cameras)
which says to **switch all streams to H264** and **turn off Smart Coding**.
* [VIGI C440](https://www.tp-link.com/my/business-networking/vigi-network-camera/vigi-c440/)
- \- fuckup as its an interior camera and I did not notice when ordering.
+ \- A fuckup as its an interior camera and I did not notice when ordering.
It's stil outside as it's not directly on elements, survived one winter so far.
* [VIGI C240](https://www.tp-link.com/ae/business-networking/vigi-network-camera/vigi-c240/)
- \- cheap and exterior, enough settings to feel fine.
- It actually decetnly see at night without IR, but you realize its kinda lie
+ \- Cheap and outdoor, enough settings to feel fine.
+ It actually decently see at night without IR, but you realize its kinda lie
as if something moves there its a smudge at best or invisible predator at worst.
- * some random aliexpress camera with ptz
+ * Some random aliexpress camera given to me, it has ptz.
Once I am running frigate and cameras for some real time... more than a year,
I will decide which cameras to get long term.
@@ -172,8 +193,10 @@ DOCKER_MY_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava
# FRIGATE
-FRIGATE_RTSP_USER: "admin"
-FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "dontlookatmekameras"
+FRIGATE_RTSP_USER=admin
+FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD=dontlookatmekameras
+# FRIGATE_MQTT_USER=
+# FRIGATE_MQTT_PASSWORD=
```
**All containers must be on the same network**.
@@ -239,6 +262,8 @@ Ideally your camera has several streams.
A primary one in full resolution full frame rate for recording,
and then secondary one in much smaller resolution and fps for observing.
+
+
### First config - one camera
Bare config that should show camera stream once frigate is running.
@@ -473,15 +498,15 @@ Only two changes in the 3rd config.
is enabled for ffmpeg, using vaapi.
It's globaly set for all streams by just two lines in the config.
-I started to have daily freezes first time I switched to hwaccl and igpu detection.
+The first time I switched to hwaccl and igpu openvino detection I had daily freezes.
I was ready to tackle it based on some
[github disscussion,](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/8470#issuecomment-1823556062)
but once I started from scratch with latest version I had no more freezes.
-But maybe it will comes, as I had mqtt and ntfy working at that time.
-
### Fourth config - notifications with mqtt and ntfy
+
+
Time for push **notifications** about events happenig in front of cameras.
I use **ntfy** and the first result when googling for "frigate ntfy" is
[this guide.](https://beneaththeradar.blog/frigate-portainer-and-notifications-using-ntfy/)
@@ -506,7 +531,9 @@ I run without authentification on ntfy.
#### 2. Edit the compose, adding emqx container
-For some reason EMQX needs to be run as root user on my setup.
+EMQX default login is `admin` / `public` and its webgui is on port `18083`
+For some reason EMQX needs to be run as root or it does not have
+access to its own folder set to be bindmounted.
docker-compose.yml
@@ -570,7 +597,7 @@ If your broker has authentification, set `FRIGATE_MQTT_USER` and
`FRIGATE_MQTT_PASSWORD` in the `.env` file.
-config-4.yml
+config-4.yml
```yml
mqtt:
@@ -678,6 +705,9 @@ cameras:
* `Title` - `Motion Detected`
* Body - `${message}`
+Obviously change all the instances of the `cam.example.com` and `ntfy.example.com`
+to whatever you got going.
+
[Picture](https://i.imgur.com/SbohgYI.png) from the guide, this setup skips
Authentification.
Test conectivity, it should be successful, then Create.
@@ -693,24 +723,138 @@ WHERE
payload.type='new' and payload.after.has_snapshot = true and payload.after.has_clip = true
```
-### T
+# My current config
-with intel igpu openvino mqtt ntfy
+config.yml
-Previously when I tried openvino igpu hw acceleration I had the server daily freeze.
-Now I setup this config expecting freezes and getting ready to try
-[yolo model](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/8470#issuecomment-1823556062)
-from github comments, but no freeze yet for few days..
+```
+mqtt:
+ enabled: true
+ host: 10.0.19.40
+ port: 1883
----
----
+detectors:
+ ov:
+ type: openvino
+ device: AUTO
+ model:
+ path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
+
+model:
+ width: 300
+ height: 300
+ input_tensor: nhwc
+ input_pixel_format: bgr
+ labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt
+
+ffmpeg:
+ hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
+
+detect:
+ max_disappeared: 2500
+
+objects:
+ track:
+ - person
+ - cat
+ - dog
+ filters:
+ person:
+ min_area: 1000
+ threshold: 0.82
+ cat:
+ min_area: 200
+ threshold: 0.5
+
+record:
+ enabled: true
+ retain:
+ days: 60
+ mode: all
+ events:
+ retain:
+ default: 360
+ mode: motion
+
+snapshots:
+ enabled: true
+ bounding_box: true
+ crop: true
+ retain:
+ default: 360
+
+birdseye:
+ mode: continuous
+
+cameras:
+ K1-Gate:
+ ffmpeg:
+ inputs:
+ - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.19.41:554/stream1
+ roles:
+ - record
+ - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.19.41:554/stream2
+ roles:
+ - detect
+ detect:
+ width: 640
+ height: 480
+ fps: 5
+ motion:
+ mask:
+ - 640,480,640,0,0,0,0,480,316,480,308,439,179,422,162,121,302,114,497,480
+
+ K2-Pergola:
+ ffmpeg:
+ inputs:
+ - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.19.42:554/stream1
+ roles:
+ - record
+ - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.19.42:554/stream2
+ roles:
+ - detect
+ detect:
+ width: 640
+ height: 480
+ fps: 5
+ motion:
+ mask:
+ - 640,78,640,0,0,0,0,480,316,480,452,171
+
+ K3-Dvor:
+ birdseye:
+ order: 3
+ ffmpeg:
+ inputs:
+ - path: rtsp://10.0.19.43:554/0/av1
+ roles:
+ - record
+ - path: rtsp://10.0.19.43:554/0/av1
+ roles:
+ - detect
+ detect:
+ width: 640
+ height: 352
+ fps: 8
+ snapshots:
+ enabled: True
+ bounding_box: True
+ record:
+ enabled: True
+ retain:
+ days: 21
+ motion:
+ mask:
+ - 0,37,198,38,174,0,0,0
+ - 640,90,640,352,210,352
+```
-# Notifications
-
+---
+---
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