Ah right. Docker seems to have gained more ground than LXC if its the first time I come across it. I hadn’t realised they were similar, especially after I discovered that people are running docker in LXC …

What i read here is concerning. Non that i was getting into the swing of drocker … :-( Is LXC the future then?

Ok, I hadn’t realised that the helper script installs docker. I thought LXC was an alternative to docker.

Regarding the VM option, I did think of doing just that but read a lot about it using too many resources with frigate and LXC seems to be more efficient option when it comes to resources

OK, I should have been clearer. With “community LXC repository on github” I actually meant that I used the LXC scripts. It did go through a few questions at the start but nothing relating to storage and camera setup.

That is brilliant. Thanks. I haven’t read this all yet looks like what I need.

Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I’ve still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I’ve also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it … He couldn’t understand where all his hard earnings were going.

Looks like I have two options for Proxmox + Frigate:

a) full VM via a QEMU VM that then has Frigate as app container (Frigate website is not recommending this approach from what I understand)

b) Virtual environment (VE) thgrough the “Proxmox Container Toolkit” where Frigate is as a system container (i.e. docker container directly in the Proxmox environment, which eliminates the VM overhead. See here: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_pct

Looks like someone has got it up and running in the PCT environment https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/running-frigate-on-proxmox

Also, I need to get my hands on a Micro desktop with a PCIe slot so that I can stick the Coral unit in it. Any thoughts for cheap solutions on eBay?

Ah yes, thanks for raising. I had forgotten. So we have three Foss contenders:

• Frigate
• Motioneye
• Zoneminder

I’ve only tried ME about 6 years ago with RPi camera. It was alright but I’m sure things have moved on.

Thankyou for taking the time to explain. I was in fact going to get one Loryta cameras recomended by the Frigate website … If i can even find it in EU. Don’t want to pay the premium import taxes 😉

Are you able to expand? What exactly did not impress you? Motioneye (which I briefly used 3-4 years ago with a dodge camera) and Frigate seem to be those that are used mostly as OOS solutions and hooked up to either OpenHab or HA.

Yip, I already have pfSense installed with an isolated virtual network just for my home automation.

As I’m thinking of getting HA to look after my IP cameras with Frigate, I’m thinking of a mini PC wiht a PCIe Coral device installed. Would this make sense and are there others doing this i.e. have HA on a miniPC with Cora PCIe installed and Frigate on top?

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.

Although some appear to not be maintained anymore

Awesome Privacy looks goog. Need to explore.

The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.

I just find nextcloud bloated for my use case.

make me shake … brrr

I’m going to try and see is I can get a VM running on the second Truenas server using the replicated dataset. I only use the second machine to duplicate datasets in case the first machine fails and have to rebuild it.

I’ve been asking myself the same question for a while. The container inside a VM is my setup too. It feels like the container in the VM in the OS is a bit of an onion approach which has pros and cons. If u are on low powered hardware, I suspect having too many onion layers just eat up the little resources you have. On the other hand, as Scott@lem.free.as suggests, it easier to run a system, update and generally maintain. It would be good to have other opinion on this. Note that not all those that have a home lab have good powered labs. I’m still using two T110’s (32GB ECC ram) that are now quite dated but are sufficient for my uses. They have Truenas scale installed and one VM running 6 containers. It’s not fast, but its realiable.

Same here but now struggling to keep on top of it. I wish there was a mobile solution that would just nicely integrate with selfhosted