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My first seccam, now the Frigate mystery in LXC (lemmy.ml)
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Just got my first security camera, a Hikvision multi focal 4MP. I got Proxmox up and running and installed Frigate through the community LXC repository on github. Most of the documentation is to first install Docker as LXC and then Frigate as a normal docker compose yml, where all the configuration is done. Now that I've skipped the docker bit, how do i config my camera on frigate? From reading the frigate website, i need access to config file. I also need to tell frigate to save all streaming on my Truenas that I've shared with Proxmox via a NFS share. Anyone have a similar setup? These LXC containers seem pretty cool as concept, as from what I understand, they're similar to a bare metal install except the host shares its kernel and they bring the convienence of containerisation. Basically, LXC and Docker are similar in concept but with Docker you have the benefit of compose and portainer which are universal whereas LXC is part of Proxmox. Is that a fair summary?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

With one low res camera I ran it in a Debian vm with 4gb of Ram and two cores no problem. Once I had three 4K streams, I bumped it up to 16gb and 10 cores, only cause I wanted a hi-res live view, but I’m sure it would do fine with less with low res live view. Have been running it in a vm for two years now, no issues. Tried a bare metal install and lxc. Keep coming back to vm for the adaptability. Adding GPU and npu through lxc always made issues for me, but passing through to a vm is pretty well supported and documented, I think the ease of use outweighs the additional resources used by the vm. Plus I have read it’s not best practice to run docker inside an lxc.