So I run a debian server, it’s a shitty little i5 4th gen of some sort with 8GB of RAM. It runs BI in a docker of Windows using Dockur, as well as docker stacks for mosquitto and deepstack, and other containers for my solar array and inverters.

I have BI AI pointing to the debian host machine’s IP with the port I used for deepstack container. This seems to be pretty good at object detection without any GPU and on a shitty little I3 processor that’s about a decade or more old.

I use BI because Frigate and any other FOSS just don’t have anything approaching the usefulness and ease of setup of BI. I’d love if there were an alternative, because I fucking loathe having a Windows install in my network, even if it is running as a docker container. But that’s not the case, so I pay for BI and use some mitigations for having to deal with Windows.

I can post the compose files if you think you might want to give this a try.