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Erich Blume bc57edc1a4 Port Mosquitto and ntfy to ringtail k3s, retire Apple Silicon Detector 
Move MQTT broker and push notification services from indri minikube to
ringtail k3s cluster. Delete the frigate_detector ansible role — detection
will use ringtail's RTX 4080 when Frigate is ported.

Manual cleanup needed on indri:
  ssh indri 'launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/mcquack.eblume.frigate-detector.plist'
  ssh indri 'rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/mcquack.eblume.frigate-detector.plist'

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-19 10:54:22 -08:00

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Frigate 2026-02-17
service
surveillance

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 (ringtail k3s)
    ├── go2rtc         — RTSP restream proxy
    ├── FFmpeg          — stream decoding
    ├── detector       — GPU-accelerated (RTX 4080, pending migration)
    ├── /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 will use GPU-accelerated inference on ringtail's RTX 4080 (migration pending). 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 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.

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