Erich Blume 703cbc59e7 Fix services-check and update docs for Frigate migration to ringtail

Move mosquitto, ntfy, frigate, and frigate-notify pod checks from
minikube-indri to k3s-ringtail context in services-check. Add
nvidia-device-plugin check. Update documentation across 8 files to
reflect the migration completed in PRs #216 and #217.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-02-19 14:37:32 -08:00

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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-tensorrt`
Upstream	https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
Manifests	`argocd/manifests/frigate/`

Architecture

ReoLink Camera (GableCam)
    │ RTSP
    ▼
Frigate pod (ringtail k3s)
    ├── go2rtc         — RTSP restream proxy
    ├── FFmpeg          — stream decoding
    ├── detector       — ONNX with CUDA (RTX 4080)
    ├── /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 runs on ringtail's RTX 4080 via the ONNX detector with CUDA execution provider. The model is YOLO-NAS-S (yolo_nas_s.onnx). The previous Apple Silicon Detector on indri has been retired.

Two zones are configured: driveway_entrance (triggers review alerts for person/car) and driveway (triggers review detections).

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`	512 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.

ntfy - Push notification delivery
sifaka - NAS storage for recordings
observability - Prometheus metrics at /api/metrics
operationalize-reolink-camera - Original deployment plan

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