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