Comment by giobox
2 days ago
Their camera system isnt awful, but I would still pick Frigate over it (I have the option for both at home and have ran each). Frigate is nice in that it works with any old RTSP IP camera - many features in Unifi's NVR support only work with their own over-priced cameras. High quality PoE cameras are extremely cheap nowadays. If you connect a non-Ubiquiti branded RTSP cam to their NVR software you lose a ton of features.
How many cameras do you have on your frigate instance? i’ve been running frigate for couple years and seemed to have hit a limit of 6 cameras. 3 of them are wireless and 3 are connected to Ethernet. Mainly adding any more seems to adversely impact detection. I suspect it was maybe because the coral TPU board was hitting its limits. So I recently switched to intel arc a380 for inference. I’m going to add more cameras soon to see it helps.
You were definitely hitting the limitations of the coral. Fregata (a native port of Frigate to macOS) can easily handle 25+ cameras since Apple Silicon can do detections in 1-2ms, giving you 500-1000 object detection inferences per second.
Wireless cameras can also cause their own set of issues, but I can understand using them if you have to.