The Setup
I have 4 Reolink cams, 3 x 510WA and 1 x 510A - seems pretty much the same, just the "WA" hawing Wifi, and the "A" having POE.
I started installing frigate reading the docs and learning from this Youtube video.
Starting up
The first mistake was to install via DockerHub, now a days the image is at GitHub, so I spend a lot of time on an old version and new documentation.
Looking at many issues at gitHub, it seems that this is a very common mistake.
Second mistake, I started using the config from https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/camera_specific#reolink-cameras and with --shm-size=64m
This gave me ALL sort of trouble, and the camera streams stalled within seconds; i tried all sort of streams, https, rstp, rmtp etc etc.
Often ending like this:
I tried all the (bad) advices from a lot of videos, and a lot or article pointing out the problem was the cams.
Then I came across this Youtube video, and found that a simple standard RTSP are working just fine (must be enabled on the Camera) - WITH more memory for 4 cams / 8 streams (--shm-size=256m).
My first working config: config.yml.std
Works fine and the camera streams does not stall
Also the setup of the docker container may require som tweaking, I You have (or not have) the Google Coral.
Starting frigate:
docker run -d \ --name frigate \ --restart=unless-stopped \ --mount type=tmpfs,target=/tmp/cache,tmpfs-size=1000000000 \ --device /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb \ --shm-size=256m \ -v /mnt/LaCie/nas/frigate:/media/frigate \ -v /opt/frigate/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro \ -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ -e FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD='***********' \ -p 5000:5000 \ -p 1935:1935 \ ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:master-433bf69-tensorrt
A working/simple config
Previously, I did not use the go2rtc - and the playback of event clips was extreme chonky and studdering. After setting up go2rtc as proxy (see the code) the event clips are way better.
Great that it is embedded with Frigate.
mqtt:
host: 10.0.0.183
go2rtc:
streams:
frigate_front_door_cam_main:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.151/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus"
frigate_front_door_cam_sub:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.151/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}"
frigate_behind_house_cam_main:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.176/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus"
frigate_behind_house_cam_sub:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.176/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}"
frigate_carport_cam_main:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.191/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus"
frigate_carport_cam_sub:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.191/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}"
frigate_big_shed_cam_main:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.108/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus"
frigate_big_shed_cam_sub:
- "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.108/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=readonly&password={FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}"
cameras:
frigate_front_door_cam:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_front_door_cam_sub?video=copy
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- detect
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_front_door_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- record
rtmp:
enabled: False
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
snapshots:
enabled: True
timestamp: false
bounding_box: True
retain:
default: 2
record:
enabled: True
events:
retain:
default: 10
frigate_behind_house_cam:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_behind_house_cam_sub?video=copy
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- detect
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_behind_house_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- record
rtmp:
enabled: False
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
snapshots:
enabled: True
timestamp: false
bounding_box: True
retain:
default: 2
record:
enabled: True
events:
retain:
default: 10
frigate_carport_cam:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_carport_cam_sub?video=copy
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- detect
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_carport_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- record
rtmp:
enabled: False
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
snapshots:
enabled: True
timestamp: false
bounding_box: True
retain:
default: 2
record:
enabled: True
events:
retain:
default: 10
frigate_big_shed_cam:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_big_shed_cam_sub?video=copy
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- detect
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_big_shed_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac
input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
roles:
- record
rtmp:
enabled: False
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
snapshots:
enabled: True
timestamp: false
bounding_box: True
retain:
default: 2
record:
enabled: True
events:
retain:
default: 10
detectors:
coral:
type: edgetpu
device: usb
birdseye:
enabled: True
mode: continuous
CPU - With Google Coral
As the logs states:
2023-04-19 21:39:43.672054592 [INFO] Starting Frigate... 2023-04-19 21:39:45.123307770 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Starting Frigate (0.12.0-433bf69) 2023-04-19 21:39:45.170477205 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] peewee_migrate INFO : Starting migrations 2023-04-19 21:39:45.175774528 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] peewee_migrate INFO : There is nothing to migrate 2023-04-19 21:39:45.204354047 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] detector.coral INFO : Starting detection process: 290 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422390105 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Output process started: 292 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422396583 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.comms.dispatcher INFO : Turning off snapshots for frigate_carport_cam 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422404731 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Camera processor started for frigate_front_door_cam: 298 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422409419 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Camera processor started for frigate_garden_cam: 300 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422426668 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Camera processor started for frigate_behind_house_cam: 302 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422431296 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Camera processor started for frigate_carport_cam: 303 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422434562 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Capture process started for frigate_front_door_cam: 304 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422459193 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Capture process started for frigate_garden_cam: 308 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422463190 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Capture process started for frigate_behind_house_cam: 311 2023-04-19 21:39:48.422466294 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.app INFO : Capture process started for frigate_carport_cam: 315 2023-04-19 21:39:48.446236449 [2023-04-19 21:39:45] frigate.detectors.plugins.edgetpu_tfl INFO : Attempting to load TPU as usb 2023-04-19 21:39:48.446242266 [2023-04-19 21:39:48] frigate.detectors.plugins.edgetpu_tfl INFO : TPU found
I assume the Google Coral is working, but still Frigate is highly CPU intensive for 4 cams:
With frigate not running:
If this is not improving / improved somehow, I will setup Frigate on a seperate piece of hardware.
This is 1 cam high res detect:
