I’m not sure that I would need this very much. I’m mostly interested in a sort of ephemeral surveilance system; I only really need to store, at most, a few days, and then rewrite over it all.
This is exactly what I do. I simply cloud backup any event/object clips but only retain last 5 days. The cloud is if law enforcement needs it, or in the event of hardware failure/catastrophic house damage.
What tweaking do you generally need to do for the camera server?
Recording schedules change based on time of day/when we’re in/out of the house. This is all handled as automations through Home Assistant, but is set up through Surveillance Station NVR.
Just reporting back that I did the work last night to change the ingestion order for my cameras. I’m now using the
go2rtc
component offrigate
as the first ingestion point. That component is serving a restream to both Frigate and my NAS’ NVR. It’s working much better now, with less frame delay, and less CPU usage on the NAS.