blumeops/docs/reference/services/frigate.md
Erich Blume 45d849f99b Upgrade Frigate 0.16.4 → 0.17.0-rc2
Prerequisite for Apple Silicon ZMQ detector. Adapts record config
to 0.17 schema (retain.days/mode → continuous.days). Detector and
camera config unchanged — validate upgrade before switching backend.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-17 16:41:50 -08:00

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Frigate 2026-02-17
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Frigate

Open-source network video recorder (NVR) with object detection. Runs cloud-free with all video stored locally on sifaka.

Quick Reference

Property Value
URL https://nvr.ops.eblu.me
Tailscale URL https://nvr.tail8d86e.ts.net
Namespace frigate
Image ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:0.17.0-rc2-standard-arm64
Upstream https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
Manifests argocd/manifests/frigate/

Architecture

ReoLink Camera (GableCam)
    │ RTSP
    ▼
Frigate pod
    ├── go2rtc        — RTSP restream proxy
    ├── FFmpeg         — stream decoding
    ├── ONNX detector  — object detection (YOLO-NAS-s, CPU)
    ├── /media/frigate — NFS recordings (sifaka)
    └── /db            — SQLite (local PVC)
        │
        └──→ MQTT (Mosquitto) → frigate-notify → ntfy → mobile

Cameras

Camera IP Location Objects Tracked
GableCam 192.168.1.159 Front gable person, car, dog, cat, bird

Camera credentials are stored in 1Password and synced via external-secrets to the frigate-camera Secret.

Detection

Object detection uses ONNX with a YOLO-NAS-s model running on CPU (ARM64). The model file lives on the NFS recordings volume at /media/frigate/models/yolo_nas_s.onnx.

A driveway_entrance zone is configured for alert filtering — only detections in this zone trigger review alerts.

Retention

Type Duration Mode
Continuous recording 3 days all
Alert clips 30 days active objects
Detection clips 14 days motion
Snapshots 14 days

Storage

Mount Backend Size
/media/frigate NFS PV on sifaka (/volume1/frigate) 2 Ti
/db Local PVC (frigate-database) SQLite
/dev/shm Memory-backed emptyDir 256 Mi

Alerting (frigate-notify)

A separate frigate-notify pod (ghcr.io/0x2142/frigate-notify:v0.3.5) subscribes to Frigate's MQTT events via Mosquitto and pushes alerts to ntfy on the frigate-alerts topic. Alert messages include action buttons linking back to the Frigate review UI.