This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software.

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00:46 Orbit Panels

Installed at home
First professional install
Smart home issues

03:03 Oreon Desktop

The Register
Distro based on Alma Linux
Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right
Oreon Project
Company has support
Focus on the desktop
Has lots of extra packages/software
Focus on stability

10:08 Serpent OS

9 to 5 Linux
Serpent OS Alpha release
Ikey Doherty

11:55 Cosmic OS

9 to 5 Linux
Pop!_OS 24.04
Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop
Built for users
System76 Cosmic
Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops
Give System76 constructive feedback
Available for many distros
Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows

21:33 Buying/Owning Content

24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge

App is 10 years old
Charging a subscription fee
Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app
Why not open source the app/protocol?
ARSTechnica

30:13 News Wire

Batocera 40 - gamingonlinux.com
Deepin 23 deepin.org
TAILS 6.6 - torproject.org
CockroachDB Licensing Change - techcrunch.com
Mesa 24.2.0 - mesa3d.org
Gentoo & IA-64 Itanium - Gentoo.org
OMI Joined ORGS - theregister.com
Hermes 3 - siliconangle.com
NeuroTrALE - extremetech.com

32:00 Frigate Make Good

Mostly user error
h.265 vs h.264
New release 0.14
- complete rewrite of the UI
- User permissions exist now!
Got a response on Github!
6 cameras plus a doorbell
RioLink HA plugin did magic
Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700
Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU
Network load
Now up to
- 125 watts
- 5 disks
- 64 GB of RAM
Tying into Home Assistant
Open Source taking over proprietary
Documentation
Getting things "dialed in"
Passing on "tribal knowledge"
Calculating RAM usage
Predicts disk usage
Don't put it on the same box as Home Assistant

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