I Spy, with my Little Pi...

Thanks Jeff! This 62 year old just started a home lab about 6 months ago. I just added an NVR to the list of things to try because of this video! I especially like the videos of you and your dad!

Jeff: AI is taking over everything Dalek in the background: My time to exterminate is nearly here

"I'll zip tie this maybe--probably not." 🤣

As an installer here are my questions; A. Can you separate smart activated recording settings from smart activated detections? You may want to always record motion events but you might only want an alert with a specific line-crossing event. B. Probably in your next videos, does it have an app? BB. Remote viewing options on same network and via a remote location. C. Is there a secure way to remote to the device? D. Unifi is breaking camera barriers. The specs I like are: 2K cams (nice balance between function and recording time), Non-pigtail so the RJ45 plugs straight to the base, dimensions similar to Ø3.5 x 2.8". E. Expansion limitations. What is a realistic number of 2K (4MP) cams for this? F. If you could do an overall front end cost and estimate of time to setup with a guide you have. G. Long term mgmt for keeping the system updated? H. Is DHCP running on the PI or via the primary router? ISP changes out a router, can the system roll with it? I hope that helps with some material for the next videos. This super interesting especially for houses and small businesses.

WOA... not what I expected when I clicked to get here from the link that said: I Spy, with my Little Pi... YES I really would like to replace my 3 hikvision NVR's. This is awesome....

0:53 "Ignore PEP 668 because it's silly" SO TRUE, it's been such a pain to deal with and in a lot of cases it just doesn't make sense since you'd be doing it for your user and it will not touch rest of the system

Nice setup! A recommendation I've seen for the issue at 17:25 of accidentally writing to the / partition if the HDD RAID doesn't mount is to make the mount point immutable with `chattr +i /mountpoint` (with the mount unmounted), so that any attempts to write will error if the mount is not present.

I really love the title to this video Jeff, it’s gold. 😮🎉

This is exactly what I've been wanting to do for a couple of years or more. Thanks for all of this! It will really help me up my home monitoring game, especially for my mom's house!

Really interesting video on DIY devices. As a footnote having the fans being intake rather than exhaust has advantages, you get good flow out passively through holes and the case will be pressurized. This means you can put filters on the fans with only a bit of loss on flow and you'll keep dust out which is important for thermals.

What makes Frigate so good? The AI detection with that Coral TPU. Any NVR will do motion detection, but this takes a snapshot of the motion, feeds it to the AI chip and asks "hey, what's this?" If it's not what you're interested in (person, car, dog, cat) it doesn't record an event. It drastically reduces your false triggers and notification fatigue. Frigate can be difficult to begin with (the documentation is ok, but sometimes disorganised), but once you understand what you're doing it's very rewarding. The end result is nothing short of incredible. 100% worth the time investment to get it working. ...oh, and it's free.

Love the videos... Am handicap and just found you a few months ago.. love how you do vids and love to live vicariously through you

I bought a Coral on a whim during lockdown and had no idea what I wanted to do with it. I stumbled on Frigate last year and gave it a bash on my NUC. Love it!

Why is Frigate so fun to say. Frigate… frigate…. FRIGATE

I'm glad you're making another video for the video recording setup process, frigate has so many options

Thank you Jeff for making this, it's fantastic! In our household we absolutely love your channel! All the best!

It’s pronounced hi-k-vision. Side note, they are under US sanctions for support they provide to the Chinese government in their mass surveillance in Xinjiang.

this is literally what I've just been thinking of doing, so glad you made a video about it!

So glad you made this video been looking for an upgrade for my motioneye OS

Thanks Jeff, another informative and timely video.