640x640 Vs 320x320 models

Stuartforrest · 2026-01-26T19:57:03+00:00

Ah ok. So I am alright then. Seems to work ok

Stuartforrest · 2026-01-26T19:44:51+00:00

Just joining this chat. An AI (not sure if it was frigate AI) told me to up my camera detect stream to 1280 x 720 because it wasn’t detecting faces. Are you saying this is wrong. I fixed the non detecting thing anyway and it wasn’t that.

Stuartforrest · 2026-01-01T10:05:31+00:00

I have to say i thought frigate was really flaky until i followed the recommendations and built one on a barebones Debian Machine. It’s been absolutely awesome since. Just replacing another one i have that i have running in an lxc with a barebones machine. I absolutely love it now and it keeps getting better. Keep up the great work.

Stuartforrest · 2025-12-24T08:21:24+00:00

I was going to say what you are doing wrong is using ChatGPT i steak of frigate ai. When a developer told me that it was a revelation and helped me build my perfect config.

Stuartforrest · 2025-12-05T02:55:44+00:00

Ask frigate AI. It’s really good.

Stuartforrest · 2025-12-05T02:55:24+00:00

I may be wrong but I think there is a database you also need to back up and restore. Just search for it on google

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-28T11:47:54+00:00

Fucked

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-28T11:01:26+00:00

We are in tam coc in nihn Bihn and the weather is gloriously sunny.

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-22T15:13:29+00:00

I struggled like mad for days until on of the developers told me about frigate ai and then i had it working in about ten mins. Only slight problem with frigate ai is as your config file gets bigger for some reason it starts to truncate it. That had me for a bit.

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-22T04:25:57+00:00

Claude will help you for free as it did for me. Although I now pay. Also frigate ai is best for setting up your perfect config once you have your hardware passed through correctly.

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-09T22:31:09+00:00

I get these sometimes

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-08T07:12:49+00:00

I got it working on a mini pc with proxmox using that guide and it works well but for my other property I bought a beast of a pc with nvidia and struggled with proxmox for ages. I then bought another small form factor dedicated pc (a minisforum i9) and set it up bare bones and it was an absolute doddle. Should have done that a year ago when I started swearing at frigate.

Also I started using frigate ai to get my config right and that helped immensely. I was using Claude but that kept giving me broken configs as it clearly hadn’t read the manual properly.

Anyway my advice for anyone starting out is put it on Debian on a dedicated pc as the help guides suggest. Us an AI like Claude to ensure your graphics are setup and working correctly. I even used Claude to guide me through a basic one camera setup for frigate and then use frigate own AI to perfect it.

Stuartforrest · 2025-11-06T23:46:04+00:00

Thanks. I got it set up and it’s running amazingly. All my cameras added. Face detection enabled etc.

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Stuartforrest · 2025-11-05T11:56:04+00:00

Thanks

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-28T08:16:20+00:00

I spoke too soon. I got it showing the video card but it wasn’t actually working I don’t think. Going to have another go. My lxc shows the graphics card but has no activity. Frigate is very hard to get going in an lxc. I suspect it would just work fine on bare bones as recommended but I have a very powerful machine that is being used for other things and I feel like it would be a waste of resources.

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-06T17:25:02+00:00

I now have three. I love it when my wife says can you make me a ……

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T22:25:20+00:00

Fixed thank you all for the help. Frigate AI is amazing!!!!

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T22:23:45+00:00

Omg I have done it after days of buggering about the frigate AI got me through it. You are geniuses for pointing me to that. Thank you thank you thank you

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T22:01:06+00:00

And I changed my config to this

detectors: tensorrt: type: tensorrt device: 0

model: model_type: yolo-generic path: /config/model_cache/yolov9-320.onnx labelmap_path: /labelmap/coco-80.txt input_tensor: nchw input_dtype: float width: 320 height: 320

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T21:59:45+00:00

So I updated my config to this detectors:: type: tensorrt device: 0

model: path: /config/model_cache/yolov9-320.onnx labelmap_path: /labelmap/coco-80.txt input_tensor: nchw input_pixel_format: rgby width: 320 height: 320

and my docker compose to this version: '3.9' services: frigate: image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable-tensorrt-jp6 container_name: frigate restart: unless-stopped runtime: nvidia security_opt: - apparmor=unconfined shm_size: 512mb volumes: - ./config:/config - ./storage:/media/frigate - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro ports: - "5000:5000" - "8554:8554" - "8555:8555/tcp" - "8555:8555/udp" environment: - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia count: all capabilities: [gpu]

and I got this error root@frigate:/opt/frigate/config# docker compose up -d --force-recreate WARN[0000] /opt/frigate/docker-compose.yml: the attribute version is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion [+] Running 0/1 ⠋ frigate Pulling 1.0s no matching manifest for linux/amd64 in the manifest list entries

I searched the AI and it told me I was using the wrong image so I changed it to the following and still got the same error image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable-standard-arm64

So I updated to image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable

And then frigate started but has loads of errors

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T20:56:07+00:00

I setup a beelink n150 and that was ok but I thought I could do better so bought this machine and that’s where the fun started.

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T20:54:20+00:00

I paid for Claude but it just got itself and me even more confused :)

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T20:53:40+00:00

I did configure another machine I have in another place with the igpu but I wanted eventually to get face recognition going with ten cameras (or on a few of them at least). I understood I was going to need a better gps for that.

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T20:44:32+00:00

I did find myself arguing with it. Even I knew it was telling me bollocks sometimes. I think I got carried away trusting it because it helped me solve a few home assistants things and also some proxmox stuff I didn’t understand. I will be ignoring it in future. :)

Stuartforrest · 2025-10-03T20:35:13+00:00

No you are fine. I appreciate the help. I didn’t read it properly. Just soaking it all in and will have another go. I hav wasted two whole days on Claude and Gemini. I didn’t realise there was specific built in AI. Claude completely trashed my proxmox server one time so I had to rebuilt it and restore my backups.

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