Frigate NVR Creator Interview - Blake Blackshear

In this episode I speak with Blake Blackshear, the author of Frigate, a local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. It uses artificial intelligence to perform real-time object detection locally for IP cameras.
Frigate has been one of my favorite open-source projects since it’s completely local, always introducing new features from user feedback, and has a huge community for support. I’ve been running Frigate in my house for over 2 years to provide alerts and record footage from all my security cameras. It’s deep integration with HomeAssistant for triggering automations and sending alerts when objects such as people are detected has been vital to it’s adoption rate with home automation enthusiasts.
With version 13 of Frigate currently in beta, I thought this would be a great time to talk with Blake to get a behind the scenes look of Frigate’s history and where it’s going in the future. Version 13’s most anticipated feature is the introduction of custom models through the Frigate+ service. While Frigate itself is open-source and free, Frigate+ is a paid service that allows you to train custom object detection models for your security cameras.
My Full Frigate 13 (Beta) Review: rogerstechtalk.com/my-frigate...
Frigate NVR: frigate.video/
Frigate Github: github.com/blakeblackshear/fr...
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro - How Frigate Got Started
00:09:12 - Blake's personal Frigate Setup
00:11:58 - Engaging with the Frigate Community
00:25:13 - Blake's False Positives
00:27:08 - New features in Frigate Version 13
00:34:35 - Creating the Frigate+ Custom Model
00:49:34 - The Frigate+ Backend Architecture
00:54:38 - Annotating Images for Frigate+ Custom Models
01:02:46 - Privacy Concerns with Frigate+
01:07:30 - What's next for Frigate

[@ZielinskiIrek]

thanks for the interview. Great to see the person behind the tech that I love. I am one of those guys that annotated my images and got amazing results with frigate+. Fantastic project!

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

I haven't set anything up like this just because I was waiting for an open source solution, GREAT JOB!

[@CarAudioInc]

great idea, I always wonder who is behind these amazing projects!!

[@rogerstechtalk]

Yeah it’s fun to hear from the creator of projects, especially one as important as frigate. It’s running all my security cameras and those of a family member also

[@williamkethman]

He's just so good looking, isn't he?

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

Can you use the trained model to go through the submitted to find the outliers for manual adjustments.

[@nathanvancleave8434]

This is super cool after spending hours and hours annotating images over the last month.

[@rogerstechtalk]

Glad you enjoyed the interview! It's been nice to see all the time annotating images has shown an improvement in the custom models.