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.
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.