1x Google Coral USB TPU in stock ($119.36 landed)

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CutCutCut

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#3126689 12-Sep-2023 21:45

boland:
+1 for recommending Frigate. I've recently set it up, with two outdoor cameras. One cheap one from Aliexpress, and a Reolink one. Got motion detection on the Reolink and it works fine CPU based. It sometimes seems to miss motion though or it starts too late. So far happy with it, and definitely not expensive.

Got it installed on a RPI alongside Home Assistant, Pihole and and *arr stack, still performs well.

As a backup, I'm recording the Reolink 24/7 using QNAP QVR Elite, and the Aliexpress records to SD card.

The Google Coral is very hard to come by. Unfortunately it's sold out again :(

I need to learn about frigate and home assistant so when I get some time I can start building out some home automation. I have a reolink camera, the rlc520, it's fine but the detection is rubbish, the 520a has much better detection I'm lead to believe. What model have you got? So when using frigate, bacially the detection of the camera is irrelevant right as its using the smarts from frigate to detect?

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#3126859 13-Sep-2023 09:16

yeah. frigate just consumes the camera feed from your camera and uses its own detection. I think it can use your cameras detection, if theyre a standard event type.

I'm using frigate just with CPU detection atm, it works well, not sure if its really worth buying one of these. What benefits do they really do? Can they support way more cameras? I have 4 cameras currently that work fine.

Occassional, shadows are detected as people though, does this stop that completely?

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#3126875 13-Sep-2023 09:28

I use the Coral and can't recall the last time a shadow was picked up as a person. Could be my specific setup though, and I run detection on the 4k feed, which helped with accuracy vs 720p.

boland

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#3127249 13-Sep-2023 17:18

CutCutCut:
I need to learn about frigate and home assistant so when I get some time I can start building out some home automation. I have a reolink camera, the rlc520, it's fine but the detection is rubbish, the 520a has much better detection I'm lead to believe. What model have you got? So when using frigate, bacially the detection of the camera is irrelevant right as its using the smarts from frigate to detect?

I've got the 520a, which works fine for detection of people and cars. It doesn't seem to detect e.g. bikes or cats, would be a nice to have. I have set it to 640x480 for detection to save CPU as the RPI runs a lot of other things as well. The load is about 1-2 on average during the day, spiking to 3+ when something is detected. Fine for now.

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