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Erich Blume dc4d35024f Add Apple Silicon ZMQ detector for Frigate 
Moves object detection from ONNX CPU (~117ms/frame) to the
apple-silicon-detector running natively on indri via CoreML/Neural Engine
(~15ms), communicating with Frigate over ZMQ (tcp://host.minikube.internal:5555).

- New ansible role `frigate_detector` with LaunchAgent
- Switch Frigate configmap from ONNX to ZMQ detector
- Remove detect FPS cap (no longer needed with fast inference)
- Update docs and add changelog fragment

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-17 17:11:35 -08:00

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Frigate 2026-02-17
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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 (minikube)
    ├── go2rtc         — RTSP restream proxy
    ├── FFmpeg          — stream decoding
    ├── ZMQ detector ──tcp://host.minikube.internal:5555──→ apple-silicon-detector
    │                                                        ├── CoreML / Neural Engine
    │                                                        └── LaunchAgent (mcquack.eblume.frigate-detector)
    ├── /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 the apple-silicon-detector, which runs natively on indri as a LaunchAgent (mcquack.eblume.frigate-detector). It communicates with Frigate via ZMQ over TCP (tcp://host.minikube.internal:5555), leveraging CoreML and the M1 Neural Engine for ~15ms inference (down from ~117ms with ONNX CPU).

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.

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