Help building a homebrew NVR

I’ve got a project in mind I’d like to test with the community before going ok deep on.

I’d like to put together a face-recognising NVR closely tied to homeassistant. I’m thinking of using an RPi4 with a coral attached. Then installing docker and including the following:

  • frigate
  • doubletake
  • compreface (unless others recommend a better detector?)

I have an MQTT server in HA but also wondering if it makes sense to have a local MQTT server for the NVR.

As usual, I’m working on the edge of what I know, so any suggestions/comments on things that might trip me up would be warmly welcomed.

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el_doso@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Make sure your RPI4 is 64-bit, mine was a 32 bit arm and had a numpy version error preventing it from starting. The frigate devs basically said it only supports 64 bit moving forward.

maiskanzler@feddit.de · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

All RPI4s are 64 bit. But do make sure you use 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS! The current standard and default download option is still the 32 bit version.

el_doso@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Oh! Maybe I just need to reinstall Home Assistant OS then!

Thanks, I was actually surprised it was 32 bit because I had thought the hardware ought to be 64 bit.

n8vos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I use frigate on a separate PC that's several years old that I snagged from work surplus. You can find a similar one on eBay or woot. When I started, Frigate is a resource hog on a pi. MQTT on the pi as a HA addon is plenty.

n8vos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Doubletake looks pretty cool! I'll add it to my Ubuntu PC and see how it works with frigate.