Frigate
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Feb 13, 2026first mention
Aug 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use them paired with Frigate”
runs cameras on an IoT VLANon “Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cam…”
“i’ve been running frigate for couple years”
runs 6 cameras at homeon “Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS”
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“think Frigate plus reverse proxy”
self-hosts, wants less reliance on US cloudon “Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS 2 mentions
- GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released 1 mention
- Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs 1 mention
- Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI 1 mention
- Ask HN: What's your favorite security cam system? 1 mention
Data: frigate.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“Plan is to run it through frigate into HomeAssistant”
“Frigate is pretty cool if you need motion detection. If you don't it's a bit wasteful because it still keeps the whole decoding pipeline active.”
“I use them paired with Frigate”
“i’ve been running frigate for couple years”
“think Frigate plus reverse proxy”
“previously I used the Frigate web UI over VPN to access my cameras”
“I previously used Frigate and VLANd reolinks.”
“Frigate as my NVR, recording from my security cams”
“Frigate is very good”