Frigate NVR

Frigate is an open source network video recorder built around real time AI object detection for IP cameras. All processing runs locally on the user's own hardware, and the vendor states that camera feeds never leave the home. It is built for privacy focused home automation users who want security camera recording without a cloud subscription. Instead of relying on simple motion detection, Frigate sends frames to a supported AI accelerator that decides whether movement is a person, a car or another object of interest, which cuts false alerts from shadows and wind. The vendor says an accelerator lets it run more than 100 detections per second. Zones let users refine alerts by location, for example when a person approaches the front steps or a car enters the driveway. Frigate integrates with Home Assistant, including its media browser, camera entities, sensors and switches, and with OpenHab, NodeRed and anything that supports MQTT. Frigate+ is an optional paid service offering models trained on images from real security cameras rather than general datasets such as COCO. It adds detection of packages, delivery service logos, waste bins, robot lawnmowers and common wildlife such as foxes, raccoons, squirrels and deer. Subscribers can upload and annotate their own images and request a fine tuned model up to 12 times per annual subscription, with additional fine tunings costing $5 each. The Frigate NVR software itself is open source, and the Frigate+ subscription price is not shown on the pages the vendor publishes.