Apps / Security
Frigate
Cameras that know what they are looking at
Network video recorder with real object detection: it tells you a person, a car or a dog appeared, rather than alerting on every shadow and every branch. Everything is processed and stored here, so no camera footage of your front door is uploaded to anyone.
CategorySecurity
Memory~2GB
Module
frigateInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install frigateWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Frigate | :5001 | No account by default. Set one in config.yml before this is reachable from anywhere but your LAN. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- Until you add a camera it runs in SAFE MODE: the page opens and reports healthy, but it is running on defaults, because
camerasis a required field. Use the config editor in the UI to add one, then restart the app - Detection on the CPU is expensive: roughly one core per camera. A Coral TPU on USB turns that into almost nothing, and is the single upgrade that matters here
- Recordings go to the media pool under frigate/, so they land on the NAS rather than filling the system disk
- Use each camera's SUB stream for detection and the main stream for recording. Running detection on 4K is how people conclude Frigate is slow