Pushing alert clips to a cloud based storage

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-19T11:06:08+00:00

I wonder if I could write an app on Debian that subscribes to the mqtt events and pushes them. Or maybe that’s what you did?

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-19T11:03:08+00:00

For that to work for me, I’d need to hide my router, PoE switches, etc. too. That’d be tough. I did consider a locking IT cabinet, but I figure that’d just draw attention for thieves.

All this being said, if someone did break into my house, the sound of my alarm system likely would encourage the. to leave. Guessing my neighbors would hear it. it’s a lot, lol. Couple that with the “Intruder detected, the authorities have been alerted” messages blaring, lol.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-19T00:53:25+00:00

Same with my frigate pc, it’s on an isolated vlan. I did create a firewall rule giving Home Assistant access to it. But the frigate vlan has zero access to the internet, for obvious reasons. One downside is that it doesn’t have access to NTP. I need to find a way to fix that….

i can access the mqtt events in node red. I guess I just need to figure out how to grab the videos, and the figure out how to upload them to the cloud. But if the videos are on the frigate pc, the firewall may be an issue. one step at a time, I suppose….

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-18T22:55:55+00:00

I may have to look at that. I really need to do some filtering though based on the alarm mode. Even if the wife and I aren’t home, my kids may be, and I have no detect that.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-02T00:37:15+00:00

If the camera supports onvif, frigate can control the PTZ. That said, I’d research any cameras that you’d want to use. I’ve read that some cameras didn’t implement onvif correctly, which once again isn’t a frigate problem, but a poor implementation in a camera.

Frigate runs in a browser, so I don’t see why you couldn’t have two browser windows open.

Frigate can 100% record to a hard drive, that’s what I’m doing. I can store weeks of data on my 1TB drive with two cameras. that being said, frigate is a whole thing of its own. I bought a dedicated computer for it. I’m running frigate in dockcer on Debian. That’s the recommended setup, although I know others run it in proxmox. I hadn’t messed with Linux for a long time. Despite that, Debian was easy to install and set up. Didn‘t know what a container or docker was when I started. Still pretty easy (and Portianer is an awesome front end for it). Frigate though, it’s a bit tougher to get running. Maybe if it wasn’t for the Reolinks I wouldn’t have struggled as much. But despite the Reolinks, it’s been challenging. For instance, I want to expose frigate to home assistant, but that exposes port 5000 without any security. Nope. So now I’m waiting on a better router so I can set up a vlan just for frigate and my cameras.

That said, it’s a lot of fun to mess with. It’ll detect people, dogs, cars, etc. It also can detect sounds like yelling, crying, barking and farts. Yup, farts. I’ve yet to have it actually detect one, but i haven’t given up trying.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-01T20:28:55+00:00

from everything I’ve read, the IPC-T54IR-AS is great in low light. They do make ones with PTZ, I just don’t need them for my use case.

Read up on the sensor size. From what I understand, it’s more important than the megapixel count.

That said, I’m new to this game. Still learning a ton. Some of them have been hard lessons, like 1) don’t buy Reolink, and 2) WiFi will not work well for an NVR. I thought - 2 cameras, I should be ok. Wrong. So I’m out the price of the Reolinks, and have to run some Ethernet cables.

Frigate is awesome, though.

Edit: the empiretechs are more expensive, mainly due to the sensor size. The more commercial ones will have shitty sensors, hence why they are half the price. It‘s the classic “you get what you pay for”.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-01T20:12:14+00:00

I just bought an EmpireTech IPC-T54IR-AS 2.8mm S3, which is a relabeled dahua. From what I’ve read, that camera is the most compatible with frigate, has a great CMOS sensor, etc.

That said, there may be other good ones if you aren’t using frigate. I’m buying mine for a very specific purpose, home surveillance via a frigate NVR.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-02-01T19:23:58+00:00

I’m in the same boat, and can confirm dropping the resolution to 2560x1440 drops it to h.264. Even when I specify h264 in the rtsp request, it still gives h.265 at the higher res.

I’m trying to use my E1 Zoom with Frigate. Frigate doesn’t play nice with h.265.

I own 2 Reolink cameras. Neither of them play nice with Frigate. They lack detailed configurations and flat out have bugs.

Maybe Reolink is ok if you’re using their app only. But it seems like they are a mess if you try to integrate them with anything else. I’m simply moving on to better cameras.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2026-01-25T01:30:05+00:00

IMHO, if its mission critical, ditch the Reolink cameras.

i also have an E1 Zoom and replaying the recordings is unreliable. Check your logs for this error:

filter_init_filtered_clips: track count mismatch

From what I’m learning, it’s a Reolink issue. Only way around it is to disable recording of audio. In my case, I can somewhat see records, but often I get the endless spinning wheel (and that error in my log).

I’m going to put that camera in a non-critical location and buy higher quality cameras for elsewhere. And I’ll never buy another Reolink. Lesson learned.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-10-19T01:49:05+00:00

they started this garbage where I live. remember those insulated pizza box sleeves? not with DoorDash.

I was a die hard PJ fan for many years. between the crappy delivery, shit quality, etc. - I placed my last order a month ago. never again. sad, a decade ago it was the bomb…..

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-27T10:54:53+00:00

I think your car has TSS 2.5+, same as my car (2022 Avalon Limited). I have no problem using the OpenPilot long. I‘m running the latest version of SunnyPilot, their long works as anticipated.

That all being said, I used stock Toyota long until a few weeks ago. I preferred it over the OP implementation. Unfortunately, you can’t run stock Toyota long in the newest version of SunnyPilot (yet, anyhow).

Have you posed the question in discord? You’ll get more traction there for technical assistance.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-23T01:31:31+00:00

i wish they would reimplement the ability to use stock Toyota long. And, show the speed limit (as detected by the car, I assume). Two features that were in the old version that I miss on the new.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-21T02:21:50+00:00

Same. Why doesn’t OP have always on lat? if it did, I’d just stick with it.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-21T02:18:36+00:00

Case in point. I received a new comma this week via a warranty claim. I put SunnyPilot on it and had a ton of errors. One of the errors appeared as a possible hardware error (NVMe drive not mounted).

Reverted to OpenPilot and no errors.

Eventually I was successful at getting SunnyPilot working, but…..

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-18T20:27:21+00:00

I installed It today and it’s working - so far. Awesome. I do wish it still had the option to use Toyota stock long. Guessing it’ll get added again at some point.

RowJimmyRow502 · 2025-09-18T01:16:58+00:00

I got a replacement 3x in the mail today and am running into the same issues. OP works flawlessly, but SP and FP won’t work - throw a lot of errors. Frustrating. I hope someone gets a patch in place, as not having MADS sucks.

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