Linux - losing Frigate

 My frigate was running for years.  Sooner or later, the Linux Gods were going to change names and methods.  So, when I finally did a 'full-upgrade' on the little linux box, my frigate wasn't working.

I'm running Sid (Unstable) on the box, and it has worked great, without a hitch.  I use the box to run frigate and movies.  I love having several boxes around the house, rather than one huge monster.  Running Sid means a chance of total muck-up, and this spreads things around.

With the death of frigate, I had to start over again.  The worst was a bunch of different 'recipes' on how to install docker.  Turns out that many of these don't work with sid.  I think that was about 4 days of wandering.  Finally, I installed with a simple apt command, but the docker names were weird, and I had to find that out.

Once docker worked, then it was installing Portainer, and that was just a docker command.  Portainer is a neato way to edit stacks, and update things.

The most important thing I learned the last time was to keep copies of my docker and frigate configuration files out of the system.  Then I just plopped in the docker file and everything worked.

ps Frigate is a streaming solution running on Linux, for the ultra-paranoid.  It works with very simple and cheap power over ethernet cameras that follow network standards.  There is no room for creative Chinese software, that you get on stand-alone cameras.  No subscriptions.  No Windows.  

ps Windows is for happy cattle who know they could never be slaughtered because there are so many of them.