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.
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