Making Analogue Cameras Smart with Frigate NVR and Home Assistant

A couple of years ago I setup Frigate NVR for the first time with just a couple of Raspberry Pi based cameras and a simple Coral USB Accelerator. Since then it’s gotten a lot more refined, supporting a wide variety of different machine learning acceleration platforms and architectures. Recently I setup Frigate on a disused Intel NUC mini pc running an 8th Generation i7 processor, certainly not lacking power but with no provisions for dedicated machine learning hardware acceleration. ...

January 15, 2026 · 2 min · 391 words · Sebastian Pietschner