The system allows users to fine-tune events and alerts with zones, tracking objects in real-time and determining precise moments of interest, such as a person approaching the front steps or a car entering the driveway. Frigate can be integrated with Home Assistant and other automation platforms, providing low latency camera entities and real-time sensors and switches for automations and notifications. It also offers a dynamic real-time video feed for cameras, rendering cameras with active detections for easy viewing. Users have praised Frigate for its high level of customizability, fast object detection, and tight integration with Home Assistant.
Key takeaways:
- Frigate is an open-source NVR that uses locally processed AI for real-time object detection, ensuring your camera feeds never leave your home.
- It reduces false positives by offloading object detection to the Google Coral TPU, which can run advanced analysis to identify if the motion is a person, car, or other object of interest.
- Frigate allows fine-tuning of events and alerts with zones, tracking objects in real-time and determining precise moments and locations of interest.
- It can be integrated with Home Assistant and other automation platforms, providing low latency camera entities, real-time sensors, and switches for automations and notifications.