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Hardware to run 30 Cameras ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have about 30 Cameras I want to run on my instance. Step by step all of them will record their videos on a local sd card and I will only watch the stream over HA (no hardware nvr). How can I set this up so my phone/laptop will not struggle at all loading these streams?

Right now I am playing them using onvif and or fmpeg and all of my hardware starts to lag heavily when I open the camera sites.

The streams are split up over 3 pages so it's 13/10/7 Streams each.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't setup Frigate myself yet so I'm not sure on the specifics but yeah that's the idea! You don't need the tpu for it to work but I plan on getting some because... They're very cool lol. You'd need several to cover 30 cameras, though - I believe they recommend one for every 4 cameras.

But yeah, a cheap thin client will work. The minimum specs for frigate are surprisingly low

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can use OpenVINO now on Frigate and get the same/better performance as a Coral, worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, hadn't heard about that. It's all software?

I don't really need what Coral offers, I was just gonna do it for fun....but if I could do it without buying more hardware, that's even better!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Technically it runs in the CPU iGPU hardware accelerator I believe, but as long as you have a 6th gen or newer Intel CPU you don't need a Coral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm that's not that recent of a chip, I can probably make that work without breaking the bank!

Thanks again for the heads up, I wasn't looking forward to having multiple USB devices on my rack so this will be great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah you can grab a ready to go dell usff box on eBay with a 7th gen for about $80.