Notes from the build

Frigate tuning, self-hosted surveillance, and the occasional rant about mobile video codecs.

• May 8, 2026

  The hardware outlives the cloud

  A decade of camera-vendor shutdowns turned into one architectural rule — and why every Frigate user is already living by it.

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• May 5, 2026

  Why we built ViewPane

  Every existing Frigate companion app gets one of three things wrong: H.265 playback, cloud independence, or the price-to-feature ratio. ViewPane is the response.

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• Apr 28, 2026

  Frigate threshold tuning: pull the histogram first, guess later

  How a 200-false-positive-per-day garage camera got fixed in 30 minutes — and the rule that beats every threshold-tuning intuition.

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