AmCrest and Frigate together are SO good. Integrating Frigate with Home Assistant was also insanely easy for quick viewing and notifications. That initial Frigate config is a bit of a bear- but once you’re past that I cannot speak more highly of it.
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kensand@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I’ve personally been quite pleased with the combination of Frigate and some Amcrest POE cameras. Just make sure the cameras you are getting support RTSP though and you should be able to use them with Frigate.
Also make sure you block the cameras from reaching the public internet using your firewall, and only make them reachable from your Frigate host. Personally I use a VLAN with no internet access and enforce tagging at the switch level (i.e. don’t trust the cameras to maintain their own VLAN) settings.
Drathro@dormi.zone 4 weeks ago
kensand@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Frankly, once you get more than just a few cameras, being able to edit a config file is so much better than having to click through settings for literally hours like with Shinobi or Motioneye.
Drathro@dormi.zone 4 weeks ago
Very true. But brute force checking through tons of different settings for each camera you need to configure is not fun. I couldn’t seem to find any kind of “known working configs” database or anything either. Every camera seems to be different in what it expects, outputs, authenticates, etc. Once it’s set up, I agree, maintaining the config is easier. Having all your cameras match in model and firmware version probably makes the whole endeavor MUCH easier.
TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I have the exact same setup. It works perfectly and integrates really well into home assistant if that’s your thing. Getting a coral TPU also makes object detection really easy even on low power hardware.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
enforce tagging at the switch level (i.e. don’t trust the cameras to maintain their own VLAN) settings.
Very smart solution!
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
HomeAssistant + Frigate combo is just plain awesome. You can leverage the automations of HA through Frigate’s AI detection, so you get things like notifications.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I made some reasearch for avalable hardawar near me and found this one Hikvison DS-2CD1053G0-I
I’ll keep looking for ones that are more inside friendly.
Many thanks!
Dimand@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
+1 for frigate. I have some old V2 wyze cameras with openmiko for rtsp functionality.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I see several Amcrest options that look like they have integrated AI object detection. Frigate on the other hand says you should get a “Google Coral Accelerator”. Do you know if Frigate (or RTSP, I guess) has a way to leverage the built in detection capabilities of a camera (assuming they are built in, and not being offloaded to the cloud)? Or am I better of looking at the “dumb” Amcrest cameras, and just assuming all processing for all cameras will happen on my Frigate hardware?
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Coral Acceletor is only needed if you run setup that does not have GPU or enough CPU. Spare laptop usually has enough power to handle AI detection, but RasPi doesn’t. I run mine in CPU at rack server.
Cameras own detections are limited in my experience, and it is much harder to integrate to anything else, like HomeAssistant for notification & automation
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Frigate is absolutely fantastic, especially Frigate+.
brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
This is the way. Frigate just had a major update and the UI is now amazing.