mediamtx VS frigate

I started a discussion on the MediaMTX Github repo, where you can find more information on my problem: https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/discussions/2787

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

So you want the server to make an HTTP call to an endpoint to deliver when streams change their status?

https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1462

Looks like there might be a work around.

How low delay do you need? I'd recommend MediaMTX + VLC if you just want a live feed. motionEye could work too but it's very demanding on both the server and clients.

Have MediaMTX configured with a path for publishing:

so here's my next problem, to run ffmpeg from inline in mediamtx you have to build a new docker image that combines them. Aler9 gave instructions for the Dockerfile here: https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx/discussions/278

The one Docteh brought up is a good one https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx, I just set it up and all I had to do was change one line in the yml config file in the rtsp section to get that to work.

Am in to selfhosting and homeserver, finally got to try Frigate with some aliexpress camera that was not mine. Love it.

However, I have had success using IP Camera app with Frigate. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam https://frigate.video/

Frigate https://frigate.video/ and ZoneMinder https://zoneminder.com/ come to mind. Blue Iris https://blueirissoftware.com/ is not open source but is what I prefer to use for my PoE systems ($80/yr)

Logger: custom_components.frigate Source: custom_components/frigate/__init__.py:201 Integration: Frigate (documentation, issues) First occurred: 1:59:34 AM (2 occurrences) Last logged: 1:59:48 AM

Engineering implies working within constraints. Most people in this realm only have to deal with the spouse acceptance factor as a limiter.

Went from openhab -> homeassistant -> Node-RED. Then sprinkle in MySensors, Frigate, and Double-Take, but not on just the entrance, go for the perimeter then defense in depth.

https://www.mysensors.org/

https://frigate.video/

https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take

- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...

I have found my frigate+ model to be much more accurate and crazy good even at night. Will be curious how things change when it snows here more often, since I've not submitted any examples of winter at this house yet.

According to the author of that PR, they're using 10% of 1 NPU core on 3 cameras: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pull/8382#issueco...

The bottleneck instead will probably be the video stream decoding speed, especially as the SoC's hardware decoder isn't being used yet.