Some more information about the cameras. I ended up running cat5e cable to the pump house and then onto the gate. I started out with a wireless bridge, but I wasn’t sure how well that would work long term. The cable install was not so bad, and it is mostly buried. I also took the chance to run an cable to near the picnic table and set up and outside AP there. There’s a lot of warnings about using wireless for camera feeds.

Once i had the cameras running, I poked around at NVR systems. I started out with scrypted but moved onto frigate. I have frigate running on the same NUC as everything else with a coral TPU for video processing, and so far that is working well. I like the frigate UI for reviewing changes, feeds etc. The motion detection is also really good, and surprisingly doesn’t trigger when the gate itself moves.

I’ve set up frigate behind tailscale. I also have a home assistant box also on tailscale. Home assistant provides a MQTT broker. I have set up home assistant to include frigate as an integration, and to open the gate when someone approaches from the inside. This is working pretty good so far, but still needs some work.

I did end up setting up SSH on HAOS, which is quite a process. On the way, docker ate my nixos machine so yey.