Looking to change up my blue iris install to something more free. I’m going to be recording my house, my mother’s house and my in laws house all using tailscale. I planned on using frigate, even bought a Coral TPU for the human detection and a better motion detection. (At least I think it makes it better?) But not sure if this changed, I saw that frigate and TOU doesn’t do well in a VM (proxmox for me).
So two things:
- Curious what you run/suggest
- If you run frigate on a vm with a coral, how did pass through work?
Total between all houses, I’ll have 14 cameras recording off the bat, might add a few more over the years. I also have a gpu to handle the encoding and plenty of storage. Their upload speeds are ok too and my download speeds can handle it.
Thanks!
I tried frigate on an Ubuntu server VM with coral and it did not work at all. coral kept getting frozen. The pass through sucks.
If you can, run LXC or bare metal. I recommend Ubuntu server 20.04 (not 22.04) because it has the right python compatibility.
Interesting, I have the same setup (Ubuntu vm + passthrough) and it’s been steady since I got the python version issues resolved
frigate in a vm with gpu pass thru works perfectly.
oh that’s really interesting - I didn’t even think of doing that. I should have clarified, USB pass through did not work for me, but I did not try GPU.
i bought a nvidia gtx 1060 on ebay used for $100. these older gpu are cheap, readily available and work just as well as the corals. seems like a win to me. that being said, not everyone has a system that can take a gpu (like a mini-pc), but if you can it’s a great option.