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!

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!

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

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.

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

Honestly as soon as you showed the case I went "wow that is really cool" paused the video and I went right to the page to order one. 😂 Thanks a lot Jeff

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

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.

thanks Jeff. I was looking for this video since a year. I shall get on it asap

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

Thanks Jeff, another informative and timely video.

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

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

I've just added a Coral to my Frigate machine this week as well. Great little upgrade!

Nice series. Looking forward to more!

I spy with my Raspberry Pi NVR. Frig it with Frigate.

That PoE interceptor switch card is so cool

Just bought a house in STL and a homelab has always been a goal. Finding this channel has been amazing and I am excited for my future

Freaking awesome build Jeff! WOW!

Thanks as usual, Jeff!

Big 👍 I am bookmarking this video. Never heard of Frigate. The video has given me enough info to repurpose a dead 16 port POE NVR.

this very interesting! this is something i would love to try someday thanks Jeff!

Havent even watched the video yet That an awesome title man

Awesome! I'm just getting into raspberry pi and there's so many things to do on it! So awesome! Thank you for sharing!

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.

I am fascinated with those little Noctua fans. Like one day, those two will grow up to be 140mm NH-D15 cpu tower cooler fans. Yay.

This is great Jeff, thanks brother

Tried shinobi in the past and gave up, got this setup on my home lab in about 15mins. Thanks for the recommendation!

This video was exactly what I’ve been looking for! Thank you very much. Please make more detailed in depth videos of this! Maybe a playlist! Maybe how to use your old notebook and turn it into an Linux NVR, and stream it to either an personal app, home assistant , and run Python scripts for automation Oh man this is sooo cool

This is SO EXCITING!! I'm geeking out so hard man haha.

love this video. thanks jeff!

Fantastic video. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while.

I've been running frigate with a TPU for detection for a few years. Couple little wrinkles along the way with breaking change upgrades, but for the most part it's been pretty painless, and works great.

Great video Jeff! A trick I learned from The Hook Up's channel (which you touch on) is to use the camera substream for detection and 24/7 recording (if you want that) and to then trigger recording the higher quality stream on a detection event in order to improve performance and also reduce storage requirements. I'm a little disappointed to see blue "tongues" on the usb ports in that chassis if it only supports USB 2, even if there is no "official standard" for indicating the performance of USB ports. Otherwise it looks like quite a nice rack mount solution for a custom NVR build

I love this cover image/ title JeffyG!

Thanks. Lots of people started down a rabbit hole.

Hey mate, hope your health is holding up okay. Thanks for the content and all of the best!

Everyone knows you never screw the case on before you turn it on.

High quality content, as usual.

It is almost as if Jeff’s a mind reader. I added this to my todo list just recently for the homelab and Jeff’s got me covered. Although I wonder if Scrypted perhaps could be a better fit in a pi 5 setup.

I have multiple Rock64 boards that I have laying around because I have no use for them. Thanks for mentioning the Rockchip Frigate hw acceleration. Now I have a use for them. I have briefly looked into Frigate before in the past but the quick demo sold me on it. Currently, I was experimenting running TinyCam inside Waydroid on a headless DietPi Dell Wyse 5070 using the Cage Wayland compositor. Performance is good, but reliability is not as sometimes Waydroid would be stuck in a bootloop, for which Waydroid had to be relaunched.

Again no magic smoke, when he power on the the recorder. Great video again Jeff

Thanks for this! I actually cobbled together my first NVR today with a liberated Wyze Cam V3 (basically got root on it, patched the cloud stuff out, and mounted a NFS drive on my NAS at the location the camera stores its recording)! Janky, but it works for now. Frigate looks to have everything I hoped I could do, so I'll probably source a third raspberry pi (one is a CUPS server, the orher is running docker containers like home assistant) and a NPU, and look for better cameras since the Wyze isn't really good.

Jeff, that was a great thumbnail. Your creativity on the channel does not go unnoticed.

Great review. I'll need to cost all the hardware (for OZ) to determine if the transition is cost effective for me at this point in time. Cheers

I was thinking about getting something like this set up this week!

Thanks for doing this video. I have a Reolink system. (Blocked from the internet) and a bunch of other cameras it wont talk to. This set up looks like it would work for the spare cameras. I would love to set them up as wildlife cameras for our garden. Frigates UI looks almost the same as the web version of the Reolink one.

I prefer Moonfire NVR over frigate. It's open-source and has the best performance of any NVR software that I've ever used (minimal copy, no re-encode) so it runs smoothly on my PI 2

Finally! Pi NVR. Thanks =)

That was so helpful, I was looking at buying a complete system but I like this way more.thanks

You should see if those cameras can run OpenIPC would not trust the firmware on them.

I enjoyed this video because my mother's home has one of those Hikvision NVR systems. I replaced one of the cameras because it was stuck in night mode, so now I have a camera to play with.

17:34 This sounds like an endianness and/or twos-complement bug. The value 127 is the max "signed byte" value. 0b00000001 = 1 0b01111111 = 127

Been using Frigate to watch my home since last summer. Overall I really like it. It's simple (as long as you know a bit of yaml) and integrates well with Home Assistant. My main issue is that it keeps thinking a big rock in my yard is a person, but I might be able to work around that with some settings tweaks if I can find the time. I just have way too many projects...

Remote NVR location. If this is going to be used for security footage you may want to relocate the NVR away from the network rack as anyone (breaking in), that knows about NVR's will head straight to the rack to get the NVR/Hard Drives. In my case that was an easy project as the UDM-UNVR and USW-Pro 24 communicate over a Fiber cable. I also took an old broken hard drive and bent all the pins on its back and just put that in the UDM-Pro hard drive bay, so if anyone does get in they will get a hard drive that years ago was fried by a nearby lightning strike on a very old NightOwl NVR. Great Video

If the fans were set as exhaust, they'd pull air mostly from nearby vent holes, which wouldn't really do much. With them as intake the airflow over the CM4 will be higher. You can see the flow disparity in the Feynman sprinkler.

That NVR chassis vendor feels like they are asking for a name collision waiting to happen...

I got excited because I thought for a second you had a very similar network switch to me (The HP Aruba 2930 you showed for like 3 seconds). Struggling massively with getting trunk ports to play nice on that thing with Proxmox...

Cool project idea, as an extension to your PI Cameras and security videos that you have been doing. Setup a camera that has license plate recognition that say flips a relay that then automatically opens your garage door or turns on some lights in your house or a pathway from yard to front door.

I use an old Dell 7040 micro with an M.2 Coral TPU and it handles 9 x 2k cameras perfectly, barely breaks a sweat, the Coral TPU is awesome.

The potato quality gives a nice nostalgia feel to the video. I love it lol

Fan intake tends to break surface tension, so can pull more heat. The power supply may exhaust, so would tend to not contribute to case heat. So, electronics should run cooler.

That md0 being renamed to md127 always gets me when making a new RAID. I keep forgetting that is a thing. On my home I use Motion to record clips that are sent by email when I am not at home. The originals are stored encrypted in a cloud service. I use a RPi3b but it struggles to produce anything above 720p10fps. Will replace it with a PC in the future (that will also run other stuff like Nextcloud). Never received an email so far :)

Fun project :) I wonder you mabey can do a video on a old DVR/Setupbox/DVD player with a RPI and a bunch of drives in it original case and with the old remote and build the ultimate home theater box.

This would be an excellent solution for my box of 4 Hickvision cameras (I think that mine are the same model as yours actually) that I got from my Grandfather-in-Law a couple of years ago. I was going to use an old Optiplex 755 SFF that I have, but this seems like it would be more power/space efficient.

nice video, i am also doing something very similar at my parent's house. one recommendation tho: i would suggest to also create a LUKS encrypted device between the mdadm block device and the filesystem on it, so you dont have to worry about stolen data or when you decommission the drives and it ends up god knows where, etc. it just gives me a peace of mind knowing that all the data on the hard drive is unreadable for everyone else, no matter what happens with the disk. and since it uses hardware encryption it has basically no overhead. also you plan to put the TPU within the enclosure, right? it looks a bit silly as the only thing attached to it externally via a cable :D

1:48 They know you have every single Raspberry Pi out there, so they figured you might use their case one day for one of them.

Lol, fantastic video title and thumbnail!!

This video comes at a good time, I am currently looking into doing something like this with turretstyle cameras and an N100 platform and Frigat looks very usefu - As I see in the docs it supports PTZ. :)

I really like Frigate, been running it for about half a year on a 12600K with QSV and a M.2 Coral TPU. Only issue is that I seem to experience some sort of memory leak, possibly related to go2rtc that I couldn't solve yet. But Debian seems to cap it at about 15,5 GB, so about half a GB below maximum memory capacity so I'll live with that.

I've not been very successful with DIY NVRs and generic Cameras for many years. I've been almost successful with Milestone XProtect Express+ (not open source, but free version up to 8 cams) and RTSP-enabled cameras. But my wi-fi cameras (various brands) had terrible connection reliability. In my new home, I went full Unifi and never looked back. I love the alternatives that Jeff presented here. For DIY NVR project, that may or may not work as intended (in my case, with my old cameras, it probably wouldn't) this doesn't seem like a cheap alternative, but it's very interesting nonetheless.

All surprises are unexpected 😉

Great tutorial ...

From the title I thought this vodeo was going to be for iSpy Agent - which is also worth a look!

This is the best title ever

Good thing that it it hopefully upgradable with a CM5 later in the future.

So cool ✨🤝

Hey Jeff, just some tips for your set up. 1. You could try moving your secrets into a .env file and reference them in your .yaml config instead of having them raw. This allows you to publish your setup and save it somewhere publicly without worrying. 2. I think there is more robust way to reference your drives by going to dev -> disk -> by UUID, which makes your drives referenced by their hardware identifier. It would suck to have your set up fail on reboot!

"I Spy, with my Little Pi" I need this on your merch! here take my money!

for good measure, since you didn’t buy those cameras and open them new, you really should if you haven’t already, download the official latest firmware and refresh those cameras. You never know these days if anyone did anything nefarious or even just potentially updated them an unofficial firmware that’s compromised. Great video. Keep up the great content

I personally use my Synology NAS as a NVR and I run scrypted in Docker to get all my cameras into Apple Home (with cloud recording) and Home Assistant

I really like that case. I'll have to rewatch the video again because I was getting ready and stuff while watching it and I don't remember if you did end up saying if the networking ports in the back actually work natively with the raspberry pi. I would imagine it would, pretty much be configured as a dumb switch and then if you wanted to activate and change different functions within the switch then I believe you would command over to the networking card and probably push the commands via command line. If that be RS232, UART, Serial, etc... I have a complete unify setup with the UNVR Pro. Filled with eight terabyte WD purple drives. And protect has come a long way. And I even have protect integrated into my home assistance stuff. I actually have 18 cameras a mix of g3s to G5s in the various form factors. And then my network I have multiple rack mount switches with multiple rack mounted servers running v center with an ESXi cluster. And then I have six 10 gig SFP plus connections to each server to a unified aggregate SFP plus switch and so from my NetApp to my servers I have 20 gigs of bandwidth between each server and storage and then between each server and my network into each other server is 40 gig links that are aggregated together so it's actually for 10 gig links. And then the backbone of my network the connections going between each switch is all SFP plus and fiber or DAC cables and that is 20 GB aggregated together So 2-10 gig lynx. Except for I have one Gen 1 24 port switch that is only SFP 1 gig ports on the side. But that's what just dedicated to just running my management VLAN where the only data going across is just my configuration changes. So my IOT is on its own isolated VLAN my secure internal traffic is on its own isolated bland and my network and computer configuration is on its own dedicated VLAN. And then protect I have it running on its own dedicated VLAN that cannot talk to the internet or anything, it can only talk to the UNVR, and then the UNVR talks out through its second port to the internet so I can access it. So that way all my cameras and everything are isolated. And I have a handful of other vlan for special purposes

Server case cooling should typically go from intake at the front to outtake at the back. Having intake fans in the side panel is very unusual.

Hi Jeff. Linux Mounting Tip: chattr +i /mnt/whatever And then mount the device. After that it is impossible to write to /mnt/whatever, until the device is mounted. I use that for all additional mounted devices.

Was always told you should pull in cold air from the front and push out hot air from the back of the case whilst pumping cold air in the bottom and pulling hot air out the top of the rack, that way you're not killing your hard drives with heat or cooking yourself when you're working at the front on the node

Thanx for this video, as I was looking for a purpose for my RPi4. Pity the Coral USB Accelerator is so pricy for me to import. Hopefully, it will become more viable later, as Amazon will be launching a store in my country. Pity MotioneyeOS is no longer being developed. Otherwise, its prolly cheaper buying a standalone DVR. 😎

Until next time, you're Jeff Geerling. 🤘👍

Dudes like the coolest UKpostsr NGL

Here's a tip for future videos, by default CC is always on the bottom of the screen and obfuscates commands being shown in the shells. So you might want to avoid using the very bottom of the screen when showing text commands.

This is only the third video I have watched from you and it is making me really want to get back into networking. I took some classes on it back in Highschool but I had some really bad teachers and wasn’t learning things that really interested me. That was over 8 years ago at this point but I am eating up every word you say even if most of it Greek to me. Where should I start to get my regain my footing in the networking space?

Nice the powersupply wasn’t the loud part this time around.

Thanks 👍🏽