I’ve now managed to get the stream of my HiWatch Series, model HWI- T641H-Z 2.8-12 mm by accessing via browser to rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@192.168.30.50:554/Streaming/Channels/101. Working nice. But on its own, very unusful unless I get storage and image detection going. So, I need something like Frigate.

I believe the Frigate docs suggest running in a docker container installed on a VM. Very convienient as I have Proxmox (installed on a optiples 7070 micropc with 32MB ram) running a VM on which i have a few containers. The idea is to mount a “frigate” dataset created on my Truenas server on Proxmox which is then mounted to the VM. Lots of layers but hoping it should be ok.

I heard that the Google Coral TPU is not sold anymore. Is this going to be a problem for Frigate image recognition? Are there alternatives to the Coral TPU?

  • trilobite@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Ah, yes, the small detail i was missing … BI is not open source. I had forgotten.

    Many many years ago.i tried MotioEye it seemed half decent with a RasPi camera. Anyone tried recently?

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Very rudimentary. It was what I started with when I was trying to roll my own, and I had to tack on anything to deal with PTZ and alert automation.

        • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Shinobi? Iirc, it was open source once upon a time. I always found it had a very weird interface and UX but ymmv.

          • trilobite@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Ok, probably came across it at some point but just now was browsing the website, which appears to be more user friendly. It appears to have a docker option and a dedicate mobile app. Based on website features content seems to be quite mature. https://shinobi.video/features

            There seems to be a commercial entity behind it. The licence seems to be ad hoc https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi/-/blob/dev/LICENSE.md

            Not sure this becomes closed/payment only at some point or whether it has closed source blobs.

            • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              2 days ago

              Yah, that was where I figured it was going too, which was why I figured it went closed source.

              Give it a try if Frigate doesn’t work out, it’s been trying to go paid for a few years now I think, but it doesn’t seem likely they’ll be able to knock off BI with what they have going there.

              • trilobite@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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                1 day ago

                Apparently is Shinobi CE (Community Edition) which is licensed under GPLv3 but no longer maintained and Shinobi Pro (current codebase) under a “Shinobi Open Source Software License Agreement”. From what I understand though the source code is still fully available and inspectable. The Shinobi licence simply puts restrictions on it’s use (i.e. they want to monetise for commercial deployment). Quite clearly they are competing with BI as you say. They must have a unique selling point I hope … It means that only Frigate is truly open source/free software.

                • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  1 day ago

                  IMO, they have nothing over BI, and as I said, the UX is very weird. I tried it again maybe 6 months ago when I needed to renew BI and it wasn’t winning me over.