How do people handle multiple frigate instances?

[hagak]

So I have finally gotten to the number of cameras that I needed to split my frigate into 2 instances. I run a k8s cluster so not that big a deal just create another pod for the second frigate instance.

And for alerts using nodered having multiple instances is seamless, even inside Home Assistant.

But I never could get as fast an interface and good an interface in HA that I used that much. I usually relied on the Frigate UI for reviews, and general display. Having them across 2 is not so great.

Anyone mess with https://github.com/NlightN22/frigate-proxy and the multi-ui that goes with it? Has not seen any dev in 9 months so makes me leery to put time into setting it up.

Frigate have any plans to ever separate the UI from the backend to allow multiple backend instances managed by a single frontend?

[NickM-27]

The general recommendation is to scale vertically to meet your needs, in many cases, depending on the issue, additional detector instances or other adjustments can help as well.

There are no plans to support horizontal scalability.

[hagak]

okay not sure i follow, example camera:

  streams:
    backyardcam:
    - "ffmpeg:http://backyardcam.example.com/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user={FRIGATE_CAMERA_USER}&password={FRIGATE_CAMERA_PASSWORD}#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus"
    backyardcam_sub:
    - "ffmpeg:http://backyardcam.example.com/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user={FRIGATE_CAMERA_USER}&password={FRIGATE_CAMERA_PASSWORD}#video=copy"
 cameras:
  backyardcam:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/backyardcam_sub?video=copy
        input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
        roles:
        - detect
      - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/backyardcam?video=copy&audio=aac
        input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
        roles:
        - record

[hagak]

So it would not effect go2rtc performance if i remove the backyard_sub from streams and just have it direct in the camera section?

[NickM-27]

it would reduce CPU usage slightly to adjust the sub stream. There are multiple ways to adjust things based on what you want for live view and Frigate itself.

[hagak]

ok well maybe I will remove the sub streams, if a slight improvement times 24 streams might add up?

Live view and recording I want the highest quality stream. I do connect Frigate to HA, no other clients beyond that.

[NickM-27]

Right, but there are other options. For example you could make both available for live streaming but not use them for restreaming. That would put more pressure on the camera to provide more simultaneous streams, but would reduce server CPU