Local AI use cases with Frigate

Frigate is an open-source network video recorder with real-time object detection. Recent versions can send camera frames to a local vision model for descriptions, summaries and search.

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Security camera descriptions and search with Frigate GenAI

Frigate sends camera frames to a local vision model (qwen3-vl via Ollama or llama.cpp) for searchable event descriptions, review summaries and chat.

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