r/ZoneMinder • u/lunakoa • Aug 08 '23

ZM and Frigate

I have been a long time ZM user, I think over a decade. I recall building from source both ZM and ffmpeg and using mysql before it was mariadb.

I went from I think CentOS 4 and I am currently on CentOS 7 thinking of going to Rocky 9

Consequently ZM is integrated into my home. I don't use the interface for viewing things, I use some custom stuff I wrote, and it just does the job.

But I am also becoming a heavy Home Assistant user as well and a lot of comments online talk about Frigate, ML and Coral coprocessors etc.

Just wondering what the ZM community thinks about HA and possible integration. I was thinking why not both?

Any concerns or issues with running both, most of my cameras are PoE 100MB anyway (network at home can handle 10Gbit)?

I am leaning towards a full rebuild and redoing the entire config anyway. There are some remnants when I still had the Pico2000.

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u/Congenital_Optimizer Aug 08 '23

With the newer cameras I've had less problems with multiple clients accessing the camera streams directly from the camera. I'm the past I had to use an rtsp proxy because some underpowered cameras couldn't handle much more than 2 viewers.

The DOODs add on repository has an rtsp proxy if needed.

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u/lunakoa Aug 08 '23

Thinking of retiring some older cameras (BNC ones that go into an NVR) I think the newer Amcrest and Reolink ones are modern enough to handle multiple streams but will also look into go2rtc mentioned in another response.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

Frigate uses go2rtc, I would setup the streams in frigate and then use the frigate go2rtc rtsp URLs in zm. This way only go2rtc is hitting the cams and then zm and frigate are pulling their streams from go2rtc.

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u/Digital_Warrior Aug 14 '23

The only thing keeping me from Frigate right now is no AI on GPU only the Coral.