Virtual & SaaS Products

Frigate NVR

 

This page lists my unorganized thoughts on Frigate NVR which I plan to turn into a full review eventually.

 

Thoughts

Positives

Issues

Summary

This is my personal experience and I may be in the minority.

While Frigate NVR is a powerful and flexible system, it is far from a stable system that can be relied on for security. If you use Frigate, make sure you are not depending on it to save your footage, and you have a separate process for saving your raw video footage that will work even when Frigate is down.

I'm still on the fence with Frigate. When it works I love it! I have come to not trust it to work reliably and capturing events, and after a lot of my own investigations time on Github, I'm no closer to having an NVR that doesn't require a daily restart.

I'm hopeful to get to a stable point, but I'm also keeping my eyes out for alternatives right now.