I’m looking into self hosted and open source nvr options and frigate looks like the right fit for me. I’m curious what hardware others are running it on and how many cameras they have. How many people are running it in home assistsnt?
I read the title as “NVR hardware for a frigate” and was like WTF kind of self-hosting are you doing with military hardware on a warship.
Now I kind of want a warship.
The hardware isn’t super important if you can get a Google Coral TPU. You can run Frigate on a Raspberry Pi that way. Without the TPU, it can be fairly CPU intensive.
I run Frigate on an old laptop and before the TPU it would run really hot. After it runs much cooler.
I found a used HP business small form factor i5 6th or 7th gen intel for very cheap, slapped a few SATA drives in the thing, and one of the M.2 Coral TPUs.
it is running 20-30% CPU load with 6 cameras on it - but they standard HD - I pumped one at 4k, and it loaded up much higher, so I scaled back to all 1080p or less. The TPU doesn’t even hit 1% from what i’ve seen. I should probably load a better TFLite model. Nothing mission critical - mostly a novelty.
not the most power efficient setup.
I just run it on an old mini-pc that had a free pcie slot for a Google Coral chip
About 5 cameras, nothing crazy.
And yes I use it with home assistant as well
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
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